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Name: poopi
Date: April 14, 2006 at 01:10:19 Pacific
OS: windows 2000
CPU/Ram: 128
Product: compaq
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I recently brought a cheap computer off ebay and was wanting to put a dvd burner in it. It has intel celeron 333mhz, 6.4 gb hd, 64mb ram and i am yet to chose a operating system. will this computer be sufficent to use a dvd burner (i have heard that the burner requires less to operate than stated in system requirements as the software needs system requirements that the burner dosen't) and if my computer isn't suitable can u tell what i need to do or a way to make it work the computer also has a cd/rw al ready installed , all i want to do with the computer is copy dvds
all help is appreacited thanx

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Name: Amir Banuazizi
Date: April 14, 2006 at 15:18:55 Pacific
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Hello,
You bought a 6 year old computer and you expect to copy DVDs ?!!!

My current DVD Writer copies at up to 16x, If you buy a new DVD burner, don't even think about 16x or even 8x. Besides, you have a 6.4 GB Hard drive... how many DVD images do you think you can fit on that drive ? (4.5 GB per DVD)

If you really have to make do, get your RAM upgraded to 256 MB, install Windows 2000, convert your HDD to NTFS (to support files over 2 GB for images) and maybe upgrade your CPU to the highest the motherboard can support. Only then, would you be able to maybe burn @ 2x

on second thought, no, sell the old PC and get yourself something decent. or forget about DVD burning.

386 WITH Math co-processor eat your heart out! 25 Mega Hertz
2 Mega Bytes of Random Access Memory
70 Mega Bytes of Hard Drive
Diamond ISA Video Card with 512 Kilobytes of Memory
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