500mHZ fast enough for Cendyne DVD burner?

[Georgeo57]

I've been looking for an inexpensive DVD burner for my Pentium III, 500 mHz computer, and the ONLY one I've found is the Cendyne/Verbatim model VBTDVRW1A that sells for about $140 on the net.

I know the models' minimum specs say 500 mHz, but before I order it, it would be good to know that it should work.

Thanks.

[BJ_M]

you meet the min. specs .. it should work ...

if its any help to you .. ive burned dvd's with a dual 333 system and never had a problem ..

[jarvis1781]

instead of investing in a DVD burner that probably wont work right in your setup you might want to put a few $$ into a new CPU.

the problem with that old of a CPU is your RAM is probably old too which means your throughput for data is probably very small and the slightest thing will cause a failed burn

[SVCDummy]

The ability to READ a DVD (either video or general data) disk works just fine. Trying to record (i.e. backup data files) data to a DVD-R on such a slow PC is marginal at best. Many times the buffer under-run feature saved the burn. Recording Viedo... forget it! Buffer under-run portection was overwhelmed in the first few minutes when burning video.

I put my Cendyne DVD-R/RW burner in a Athalon 650mhz system and came up with the above listed findings. The system has 512mb ram and a SIS305 based 64mb video card. The drives were all ATA100 and configured for maximum transfer speed. The hard drive wwas a IBM 60gb 7200rpm drive.

I couldn't think af any way to make the slow CPU system run any faster.

Hope this helps. I didn't bother with anything slower than 650mhz.

[next]

I have always questioned "minimum specifications". To be on the absolute minimum of the specification should always be a concern.

That being said I don't feel that comments as it relates to this issue will ever be comfortable advice for the poster. It is pretty much a try it and see if it works situation.

[ImaWeTodd]

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I'm burning right now at 2x. My task bar cpu info never goes above 1%. Well maybe if I open a pdf. Photoshop would probably lock my machine.

[Alan69]

Actually I could burn fine with my Pioneer A05 on a lowly K6-2 450, just only at 1X. Fine enough till I was able to get a faster system, just wasn't fast enough to convert, only burning was fine though for limited use.

Alan