DVD drive Buyers Questions

[bluesfusion]

Ok, so I'm thinking of jumping on the DVD bandwagon, but dont know much about DVDs.

Now, I'll have to yank out my existing CDROM and put the DVD drive in it's place. I do a fair bit of audio ripping, so the drive has to be a fairly decent ripper.

Question is what do I look for? Go for name brand stuff? Or go for cheap stuff like Afreey, Delta, etc? These cheap ones sell for about $35-$40 on pricewatch now. Also, what speeds do you recommend? 16X, 12X, 10X? DO cheap drives affect video/audio quality, are they noisy, etc?

TIA

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Duron 700@850 (1.71v), K7TPro2A, Geforce2 MX, 128MB

[TeeTee]

Originally posted by bluesfusion:
Ok, so I'm thinking of jumping on the DVD bandwagon, but dont know much about DVDs.

Now, I'll have to yank out my existing CDROM and put the DVD drive in it's place. I do a fair bit of audio ripping, so the drive has to be a fairly decent ripper.

Question is what do I look for? Go for name brand stuff? Or go for cheap stuff like Afreey, Delta, etc? These cheap ones sell for about $35-$40 on pricewatch now. Also, what speeds do you recommend? 16X, 12X, 10X? DO cheap drives affect video/audio quality, are they noisy, etc?

TIA

A Fast DVDROM will give you fast CDROM performance as well 16X DVDs mostly support 40X+ CD ROM My 6X heap supports 24X CD. Buy a good DVDROM with good reviews/repute because not ALL DVD ROM players will play all disks easily... Some cheaper DVD players have trouble reading from Recorded CDs... I was thinking of getting the ASUS DVD but after a bit of reading up i have decided on the Pioneer 16X
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AMD Athlon TBird 750
ASUS A7V-BUSTED (on temp Replacement AOPEN AK33)
256MB PC-133 RAM
20GB Quantum Fireball Plus AS 7200/ATA 100 HD
LEADTEK GeForce 2 MX
Cretive DVD 6X <-- soon to be 12X ASUS ATA 66
Creative DXR3 Card
Creative SB PCI 128 Sound
REALTEK 10/100 NIC
CONEXANT HCF 56K V.90 Modem <-- Looking for a better option
SONY Trinitron Multisync 17SF2
250 Watt PSU <- Thats the best we get around here

[bluesfusion]

thanks. I guess I'm gonna wait a month or two and get a good DVD. Just blew my budget on 256MB sticks of RAM from Crucial.

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Duron 700@850 (1.71v), K7TPro2A, Geforce2 MX, 128MB