Burning speed difference, single core or dual?

Question

Ok, let's say I want to burn a dvd, on my single core processor takes me 45 mins, What may be the difference frame it takes when you have a dual core processor that runs at 2.66 GHz, 1066 front side bus and about a 4 MB L cache.
You know, I kind of want to upgrade my Dell 4700 series by swapping the motherboard, processor, RAM, and power supply. I want to keep all the remaining devices.
So is there anyone who can sort of predict the difference when it comes to burning with dual core?
Thank you guys.
Josh.

Answer 1

The burning speed is determined primarily by the drive. The drive is the bottle neck. You can pump the data to the drive buffer faster, but if the drive isn't faster, there will be no noticeable difference. That would be like getting stuff to the dock from the warehouse quicker, but only having one person loading the trailer. Getting stuff to the dock faster won't make too much difference in the overall loading time if the truck is being loaded at the same rate.

That is not to say there won't be advantages. On some PCs, using the PC heavily during burning CD can cause pops in the audio. If there are 2 cores, one could be servicing the DVD/CD writer solely, and you could be multitasking mostly off of the other one. That may be an oversimplification, but you get the idea. More work could be done without interfering with the recording process.

The main things a multi-core CPU will help is multi-tasking and and gaming.

Answer 2

twin center is ecentially the comparable processor different than 2 of them engaged on the comparable time i prefeer intel over amd if u have for say a three ghz singls processor a twin center of it fairly is 2 3 ghz processors eccept workign on the comparable time for 2 times the fee and cc. beter for extra apllicatiosn and laptop ingesting purposes oh btw in case you don have duel center you will needa new motherboard for it or a enw comp wehre the cpu is.

Answer 3

Try a Lite-On- SOHC 5236VO6C. Combo drive, 52x32x52x CDRW & 16X DVD-rom. I bought one from Walmart last year for my neices computer, and the thang out- performs my DVD-R/RW! Cost me about 45 bucks, and comes with Nero software.

Answer 4

It's not w/ the processors but the burners. Here are some fast ones:
http://www.directron.com/gsah55nk.html
http://www.directron.com/lh20a1s12.html
http://www.directron.com/lh20a1h185bk.html

Answer 5

there should be no difference.

burning speed is dependent solely upon the speed of the burner and the media (the physical CD).