computer good enough?

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how powerful does your computer need to be to support a dvd writer?

i have a pentium III 450 with 128mb and win98 SE - i have looked at some
writers but they seem to require more than this - are there any dvd writers
around that i could use successfully - i dont want to buy a writer only to
find out that the computer is going to be struggling

any help appreciated - andrew
 
how powerful does your computer need to be to support a dvd writer?
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Depends a lot on whether you're trying to use it
simultaneously. Some things like making MP3s on the fly
while recording do require a certain performance but just
general burning of files is mostly constrained by the speed
of the hard drive- and a fairly old drive, say 6 years old,
is stillfast enough if not highly fragmented and/or tons of
very tiny files.

i have a pentium III 450 with 128mb and win98 SE - i have looked at some
writers but they seem to require more than this - are there any dvd writers
around that i could use successfully - i dont want to buy a writer only to
find out that the computer is going to be struggling

any help appreciated - andrew
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That is enough providing, as I already mentioned, you're not
trying to use system otherwise and the HDD is fairly fast-
an original HDD that came with a PIII-450 era system would
be marginal but should work. More important is if the
software supports Win98SE, the software publisher's website
should detail this.
 
i dont want to buy a writer only to find out that the computer is going to
be struggling

Well That's about the bottom line. It would likely do it but it would be
struggling. You need a new computer worse than an upgrade. I threw away as
in put in the trash two motherboards with processors just last week that
were better one was a 650 Athlon and the other a 1200 Duron. They were both
so slow and irritating to me I could not imagine anyone wanting them so I
trashed them.

Joe
 
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