Posted by Falkon on 11/11/05 11:34

> come_mon_come_mon! wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've 2 PII PC w/ P2L97 motherboard, Maxtor HD (Maxtor DiamondMAX VL40 &
>> model 91080D5 HD in each respectively) & XP Home installed. I used them
>> to download books & movie files from internet. I want to burn the
>> downloaded files to DVD immediately after the download so I intend to
>> install DVD-writer drive in these PCs (now I use CD-RW drive).
>>
>> Below are some DVD models I found :
>>
>> BenQ DW1625
>> LG GSA-4163B
>> LITEON 1673S, 1653S, 1633S
>> AOpen DUW1616L
>> ASUS E616A (no comments found here)
>> Artec VOM-12E48X
>>
>>> From the comments here, it seems the LG model is better for my purpose
>>
>> since it can write various kinds of DVD including those cheap ones.
>> However, I'm quite concern that if all of these are compatible with my
>> PC H/W & OS configuration because many of them requires PIII CPU.
>>
>> Can somebody suggest if these models can be used with my PC ?
>>
>> PS: I've one Althon 1700+ PC too but I don't PREFER to use it for
>> burning DVD purpose because this is my main working PC.
>>
<top posting corrected>
Wm. B. wrote:
> The box for my LG GSA-4163B says "Minimum system requirements CPU:
> Pentium III 700MHz or higher"
>

That refers to the bundled software and not what the drive itself
requires. Some DVD boxes specify P4 2.4GHz because of the bundled video
editing software.

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