Give me your oppinion.

[FireDK]

I have a Pentium II 266MHz, with 64MB SDRAM, 3.2GB HDD, S3 Virge GX2 VGA whith 4MB VideoRAM (please don't laugh). Would it be worth to buy a TEAC CD-RW 52X? I mean would the writer burn CDs at it's full capacity, or the system would slow it down? (I'm using also Win98SE).

 

[CrazyNexus]

I really wouldn't be running anything else while you burn, but in theory you should be ok. System would probably chug, hence why you'd want to let it be while it burned.

 

[paparazi]

This is just a guess but I would say you wouldn't even get half it's quoted maximum 52X write speed but you might think upon this writer as possibly one component less you'll need towards your next major upgrade.
I have to be careful at this point because it is all too easy to get carried away assuming everybody necessarily wants a faster more powerful machine but obviously your 266 PII is going to be limited to fairly basic computing by todays standards. Martin

Replying helps further our knowledge, without comment leaves us wondering.

 

[jonhiker]

You would have a few issues in running it on your present machine, but it would work, but not at full speed. You would not be able to do anythng else while burning, and your HDD lookas a bit small, usually need plenty of space. If you buy it, it would be nice to transfer to your new machine you buy later on!

 

[bcastner]

Whatever drive you purchase make certain it has built-in buffer under-run protection, and is able to be set to run at least in DMA Mode 3 and not PIO (port based input-output)

 

[mainegeek]

Burner or not, adding more RAM wouldn't hurt.