Question Regarding System Performance While Burning

[Dre]

I've got a question for those with DVD Burners.

When you burn a DVD, does your system slow down while the actual burning process is going on? When I burn a DVD my computer will slow to a crawl and task switching is very very slow. It'll take like 30 seconds to switch from one open window to another. I was wondering if this was normal. Thanks for your input!


By the way, here are my system specs:

P4-1.6Aghz overclocked to 2.1Ghz
512MB RAM
WD 120GB SE Harddrive with 8MB Cache
HP DVD200i DVD burner

[wkc]

1) If your IDE controller is using PIO instead of DMA, the CPU usage is like 10 times higher.

2)If you overclock the computer by increasing the bus speed, the I/O gets more error and actually would slow you down more.

3) Use NT4, NT2k3, etc should give you better task switching response too.