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Upgrades to my old Dell

by baseballmonkey Nov 11, 2005 11:48PM PST

I have an old Dell desktop (XPS T500, Pentium 3 500MHz, 384 memory) that I would like to do some video work with (edit family vacation videos, etc). My system came with a DVD player (not a burner), and I have added a CD burner to an available bay. I wanted to get one of the newer dual layer lightscribe burners, like the one from HP, but it appears that the system requirements call for a minimum of 800 MHz processor. Will it still work, albeit a little slower than desired, or will it not work at all? I am running Windows XP on the system if that is an issue...any suggestions?

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It may

by ikjadoon Nov 11, 2005 11:54PM PST

work, but it will be pretty slow since Drive Burning may take charge of alot of the CPU's power.... I think it should work, but it might lock up, very slow, etc. It may, but would be slower than you'd like. You could try it, and if its too slow you could return it.

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Upgrades to my old Dell= don't do it.

by jcrobso Nov 14, 2005 5:02AM PST

Save up you $$$$ and get a new PC. Up grades to PC this old would be a waste of money.
Yes, you can edit video it may take overnight to do the rendering. Burning a DVDs, well the only this you can do is try. john

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