will my 1.3 celeron cpu be able to handle this Plextor DVD-RW drive?

[Beautiful Alone]

it's saids it Require a Pentium® 4 1.4 GHz, and my cpu is 1.3 celeron. this is the only obstacle, other than that it seems fine.
will it be stable?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827249003

[budz]

You probably will not be able to burn at the rated speed of the PLEXTOR 760 drive.

I'd suggest a BENQ 1650 drive that only requires a PENTIUM III 500 MHZ CPU. For the price of that PLEXTOR drive you can buy 2 BENQ 1650's.

[Beautiful Alone]

can i lower the burning speed then?

[budz]

can i lower the burning speed then?

I guess you could but why buy a PLEXTOR 760 when your computer doesn't meet the requirement of the drive. IMHO I would buy a drive that matches your computer specs. As I suggested get a BENQ 1650 DVDRW which only requires a PENTIUM III 500MHZ CPU. I see it as a waste of money to buy a PLEXTOR 760 since your pc doesn't meet the drives requirements of a faster CPU. Just my 2 cents!

[Beautiful Alone]

is the benq 1650 anygood? any reviews on it?

[Denvers Dawgs]

Benq 1650 is a good drive. I would highly recommend it.

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/12828

[budz]

is the benq 1650 anygood? any reviews on it?

I have one but haven't had time to install it yet. As you see the link provided from Denvers Dawg it is a good drive. Check out the BENQ FORUM at Cdfreaks.com.

[Beautiful Alone]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Brand=1583&N=2000100005+50001583&Submit=...&SubCategory=5

is the DW 1650 same as 1650?

[Beautiful Alone]

oh wow, just read about the LightScribe. pretty impressive stuff i didn't know all this time.

how's it gonna label the disc if it doesn't have any ink?

also, is benq the only manufacture that feature this LightScribe?

[budz]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Brand=1583&N=2000100005+50001583&S ubmit=ENE&Manufactory=1583&SubCategory=5

is the DW 1650 same as 1650?

The 1650 is the same hardware except the 1655 has lightscribe technology. You have to use special lightscribe discs for it to print. There's no ink involved, it etchs on the lightscribe discs. The lightscribe discs are expensive and from what I've read it takes 30 minutes for the lightscribe process.

[mats.hogberg]

DVD writing is very processor unintensive. The CPU requirements are surely for bundeled software.

/Mats

[Beautiful Alone]

few questions:

1: i currently have the pineer dvr-105 single layer, are there any possible hack firmware that alouds it to burn dual layer dvds?

2: does the benq have dvd-r data protected password access? i believed the plextor have that feature which aloud users to set an password to their disc inorder to open the data files.

[budz]

few questions:

1: i currently have the pineer dvr-105 single layer, are there any possible hack firmware that alouds it to burn dual layer dvds?

2: does the benq have dvd-r data protected password access? i believed the plextor have that feature which aloud users to set an password to their disc inorder to open the data files.

No there is no hacked firmware that will make your pioneer 105 a dual layer burner. Why would you want password protected dvd discs? Plextor charges for their own software such as PLEXTOOLS, where BENQ has their own tool called QSUITE. QSUITE is a tool to use to tweak your burns. It remembers the write strategy for brand/unknown dvd media. PLEXTOR is no longer the king of optical drives. The PLEXTOR 740A & SONY 810A drive are rebadged BENQ 1640's. Crossflash them to official BENQ firmware and you've got yourself a good dvdrw.

[Beautiful Alone]

password protected disc is an cool feature to have. so does the benq have the ablity to do that or not?

[budz]

password protected disc is an cool feature to have. so does the benq have the ablity to do that or not?

Okay if you say it's kool....but no BENQ doesn't have that feature....buy the PLEXTOR 760 and if you want to use their software like PLEXTOOLS and the password protected software then you have to pay for it.....

[The_Doman]

is the benq 1650 anygood? any reviews on it?

I just replaced my old NEC1300 for a BENQ DW1650 here.
Works great, no problems at all.
Also the standard available DVD-ROM bitsetting feature is a nice plus.

[HAMP]

1. Plextools Professional comes with Plextor drives and has features to tweak the drive.
2. Plextools Professional XL comes with a price.
3. To have password protected disc, You don't need Plextool or plextools XL, there is another software they have called Secuviewer and that is free.

[gOdiSOnyOuRsIDe]

What's the point of getting a plextor 760 when you can't use it's full recording speed? It's like buying maps for your car when you have navigation system already; your never going to use your maps. Why bother? Yes the BenQ 1650 and 1655 (1655 adds lightsribe) Are very solid burners from what I read and something I highly recommend. I recently bought a 1655 and I'm waiting to see how good of a DVD burner it actually is. I've been using Plextor drives for my entire PC life and I hope this switch to BenQ will be a good one.