i was thinking about tryin to get 2 burners so i could burn 2 at once. would that work or would it eat up too much cpu? i just ordered the amd athlon 64 3700+ san diego cpu.

and then i'd also have 2 drives so i could backup dvds w/out having to copy it to the pc.

dumb idea?

3/31/2006 11:17:23 AM

If you can keep your OS HD and each of the two burners on a separate bus so one doesn't degrade the other's performance, should be fine. Also make sure your power supply can handle it :-)

3/31/2006 11:30:05 AM

yeah have the burners on the same bus.

i dont see the beneift of having two burners though, how often would you want to burn two dvds at once?

[Edited on March 31, 2006 at 11:33 AM. Reason : ]

3/31/2006 11:32:56 AM

it would be worth it if it worked

this is basically the pc i would be trying this with. i think i ended up going with a lite-on burner that was only $40. and i got this sound card instead http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102188

but does that look like i could pull this off?

3/31/2006 11:36:30 AM

i have two burners in my system. and it doesn't work all that well , i have the two on the same bus, since i only want 1 big parallel cable and my hds are sata. trying to use them both at once ussally results in 1 of them locking up and me having to exit the program to get control again.having them on the same bus is problaly the problem so i'd put them on different buses if i were u . btw i'm running an opteron 144@2.9ghz w/ 1 gig of ram.

3/31/2006 11:50:17 AM

you think the extra gig of ram would help me or would i run into the same problems?

3/31/2006 12:13:56 PM

Get an SATA hard drive and a mother board that has two standard busses and a seperate for SATA.

And ram won't have much of anything to do with it since I believe a good deal of the buffer is kept on the drive itself.

3/31/2006 12:37:37 PM

i meant to post this link in my post earlier

https://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/Wishlist/PublicWishDetail.asp?WishListNumber=1923173&WishListTitle=rate+this+build+please+%28no+case%2Fmonitor%29

that is what i ordered. would that work?

3/31/2006 12:51:40 PM

^^
What I was trying to say. Either that or keep one internal burner and buy a $30 case to have a portable external burner.

3/31/2006 1:55:51 PM

YOU'LL NEED MORE RAMDACS ON YOUR BOOTBUS

3/31/2006 6:07:55 PM

why the hell would you need to burn 2 dvds at once?

3/31/2006 8:33:21 PM