Can someone help me get faster burn speed's please?

Tranceboy 2k

I'm using an Acer Aspire 5920G, it's currently taking me about 5 or 6 minute's to burn a full 700MB audio CD, it was taking nearly 15 until I shut down task's, but I don't think I can go any further with that.
On my old desktop computer it only took about 1 minute or less, and that was while it wasn't even in perfect shape, my laptop on the other hand has just got the OS re-installed and I do believe it is perfect right now.
I understand that laptops are smaller and probably have a less burning power, but I have heard of people getting result's like 3 minute's.
It is really time consuming when burning a whole lot of CD's.
I don't even know how to view what speed the burner is set too

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

chin_grin

Lot of factors to consider when burning CD's.

Media. (max burning speed\brand)
Drive.
Memory of machine.
Burning software.

To name but a few.

I'd recommend doing a quick cleanup of your pc (download ccleaner\defraggler and run them). And using ImgBurn for burning to cd.

Tranceboy 2k

chin_grin wrote: »

Lot of factors to consider when burning CD's.

Media. (max burning speed\brand)
Drive.
Memory of machine.
Burning software.

To name but a few.

I'd recommend doing a quick cleanup of your pc (download ccleaner\defraggler and run them). And using ImgBurn for burning to cd.

OK, well here's what I found by typing dxdiag next to start
Memory: 3070MB RAM
Page File: 1740MB used, 4608MB available

can You tell me if this is good or bad.
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I'm using Verbatim CD's 52x so I doupt that's the prob.
the drive: HL-DT-ST DVD+RW GSA-T11N ATA Device.
My PC has 4 Gig's of Ram, I've used Ccleaner yesterday, I'll download Defraggler and try that too, cheers.

I'm using Nero to burn, would that be just as good?

Could it be that 5 minute's is the max speed on this computer? I hope not:(

Thanks.

Overheal

greatly depends on burn speed of the drive. your desktop is more likely to have a much faster burn speed like 48x, where a laptop might only have an 8x or 16x drive. also if you use a cd which is too slow (like a 32x in a 38x drive) it will burn at most at 32x. a 52x cd will still only burn at 8x in an 8x drive.

Depending on what youre burning it can even be a good idea to burn at a slower speed. your burning software should tell you what the max burning speed is for your drive if its not already printed on the front of the cd tray.

practice

The software you use to burn the CD should allow you to set the speed at which you burn.
Don't forget the faster the speed the more chance of errors.

ricman

use cdburner xp here,http://cdburnerxp.se/en/home
nero is a big program, takes up alot of memory ,not ideal just to burn a cdr disk.YOU CAN use start,run msconfig,click tab services, to shut down programs like itunes that load at startup ,taking up memory space.I,D use nero to burn dvds maybe ,create dvd menus, ie for most people its just unnecessary ,unless you are a professional video editor, designer.

Tranceboy 2k

OK, thanks for the info, yeah I guess 5 mins is the best I'll get, that's not bad though, and defo not too fast, so it solve's everything, it should have been obvious to me that laptops burn slower than a massive desktop lol, I had a feeling though.

And yeah I pretty much wasted some money on Nero, but I'm bound to get some extra use out oh it, it's a pretty big program.

thanks.