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[Darias]

So, I just finished building a brand new machine with all the necessary shiny bits... Into it I placed a P4 3.4/800, 1Gb of DDR2 PC2 - 3200 Dual Channel Ram, HDD on a SATA, and a Liteon SOHW-1673S as single master on the single IDE channel.l (80 pin cable)

Everything runs beautifully, but I have noticed that the fastest I have burned at with CD-R's is 18x... the burner should support 48x burning, and indeed in EasyCDCreator I have options for 48x speed, or 48x SMARTBURN speed...


Yet it still reports 17x real burn speed.


How can I debug this? What are the possible problems? May I need to RMA the drive?

 

[EviLore]

the burner should support 48x burning, and indeed in EasyCDCreator I have

Ding ding.



Anyway, there's a physical limit on cd burning, which is why you'll see stuff like 12-48x or 16-52x or whatever. It'll only burn the fastest on the inside track, since the RPMs only go so high.

 

[Diablos]

There's nothing unusual about this. If you can get your CD burned in under 2.5 - 3 minutes you're fine...

Like Evi said, it can't burn at max speed the entire time, throughout the burning process the speed is constantly changing.