Minimum System Requirements for DVD Burner

Hello, everyone!

I recently purchased an internal DVD burner (Philips DVDRW416K). As it
was offered at a super-low price, I bought it even though the minimum
system requirements specify a 500-MHz Pentium III CPU and I have only
a 450-MHz Pentium III CPU. I have plenty of RAM (384 MB). I plan to
use it only for archiving data.

Do you think that I should take a chance and install it and see if it
works, or do you recommend that I take it back in its sealed carton
and ask for my money back?

The salesman at the store could offer me no advice. I sent an email to
Philips Technical Support but they never answered me.

Buddha2

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Hello, everyone!

I recently purchased an internal DVD burner (Philips DVDRW416K). As it
was offered at a super-low price, I bought it even though the minimum
system requirements specify a 500-MHz Pentium III CPU and I have only
a 450-MHz Pentium III CPU. I have plenty of RAM (384 MB). I plan to
use it only for archiving data.

Do you think that I should take a chance and install it and see if it
works, or do you recommend that I take it back in its sealed carton
and ask for my money back?

The salesman at the store could offer me no advice. I sent an email to
Philips Technical Support but they never answered me.

Buddha2

Well, seeing as there is only a 50mhz diffrence and I have installed
better software and hardware on old computers, and seeing as you
possibly have no other choice, I would go for it. I think what it
means by a greater processor is that you will boot slower or something
alog those lines

Regards,
Anthony Brohan

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Buddha2 wrote:

Hello, everyone!

I recently purchased an internal DVD burner (Philips DVDRW416K). As it
was offered at a super-low price, I bought it even though the minimum
system requirements specify a 500-MHz Pentium III CPU and I have only
a 450-MHz Pentium III CPU. I have plenty of RAM (384 MB). I plan to
use it only for archiving data.

Your major limitation may be that you'll need to be careful when burning a
DVD or CD-R/RW.

A higher-speed CPU will allow the system a bit more leeway in that you might
be able to do web-browsing (as an example) while burning a disc.

The slower-speed system might be susceptible to glitches if other tasks bite
into the CPU's time.

Playing music discs should be fine; playing a DVD *may*, depending upon the
load on the CPU, be 'choppy'.

The system RAM should help to mitigate some of these effects.
If you can upgrade your video card it may also help.

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Ron Cook n1zhi

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