For those with the LITEON 52x CD Burner!

Have you enabled the DMA in Windows for the burner? Nero is a good program, it has a wizard mode which you should find it easier to start with.

Yes just check the box next to DMA, and you'll see the improvement.

good good. DMA is very important.
And so is using decent quality media.

Also, if 52x burns seem too loud, consider burning at 48x. Burn times are only 5-10 seconds slower but with alot less noise and vibration.

IMHO, 52x and 54x burners are of no real benefit compared to 48x burners.

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Its amazing how people see a 52x drive and think that it will be much faster than say a 48 or even 40 speed drives. The 52x is only reached, if at all, when it burns on the outside edge of the disk. Since cds are burned from the inside to outside u wont reach the high speeds until u fill the cd up.
Its just a marketing ploy to get people to buy newer hardware.

Agree with you about the advantage of 52x to 48x but last Sunday I went to Swapmeet and found out that the 52x is only AUD$4-5 more than the 48x so I bought one 52x for my friend as birthday present.
As for the CDR or CDRW, IMHO if you are burning Audio CD, VCD, or DivX CD you should stick to CDR because they are cheaper, burned faster, and you don't need to alter after you burnt them. I personally use CDRW only for my assignment, lab report etc. and driver and eerything else which I would upgraded/alternate after burning.

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