Clueless person needs help with DVD burners

[Willrocks]

Hi there. This is one of my first times posting here, and I am not very computer literate, to let you know. I am interested in purchasing an internal DVD Burner, 8x speed. Before purchasing, a knowledgable friend of mine told me to check to see how many volts of power my CPU could handle. I checked the labe on the back on my computer, and it said:

"AC Input 100-127V"
"50/60 HZ 200-240V"

I told my friend these numbers, and he told me that buying a DVD burner of any speed is pointless because the power any burner requires will be too much for the CPU to handle, and the computer will cease to properly function. Now while I listen to this person's computer advice, I am having trouble believing this. Can anybody here confirm/disprove what he is telling me? Will every internal DVD Burner overload my computer? It is an HP P3 844MHz computer running Windows XP, made in 2000. Thanks very much. I will be running DVDXCopy

[thesicilian]

Someone's winding you up m8. Your comp is more than enough to power a dvd writer.

[dxj40c]

Your potential problem is having only 64 mb Ram.

[DVD_Ripper]

Willrocks

You posted the exact same question on June 17th and received 13 replies... I re-read the responses.. they seem to have answered your question.

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=226159&highlight=

What are you still questionable about?

[mightymo]

If your computer was made in 2000 then I'm sure it has a CD-ROM, right? Well common sense will tell you to take the CD-ROM out and replace it with the DVD burner.... Power problem solved.