Is the E4300 cpu sufficient for my Sony burner?

[remember]

Yes, just the title please- and no it's not listed at the cyberlink site from the "Cyberlink Advisor"

[Aaron]

Yes, it should work fine.

[remember]

I just ordered it. Would you happen to have any recommendations for the Mobo? I have found a lot of articles on "How to pick a Mobo", but none are specific to using a Blu-ray burner. Is there any factor that I must make sure my mobo has? or does not have?

[takezo]

Your Blur-ay drive is no different than a standard DVD burner, or CD burner drive. just install it as you usualy would with a DVD drive. Some blu-ray drives are IDE interface. Others Use SATA.

IDE drives have a jumper than needs to be set. If the Blu-ray drive is on the same IDE cable as a HDD, make it slave. If the Blu-drive is on the same IDE as a DVD or CD burner make it Master and don't forget to change the DVD or CD burner to slave. If the Blu-ray drive is on it's own IDE cable by it's self then select master. Note that the drive is set to cable select by default, I perfer to manualy set the jumper because the cable orientation usualy does not work to well using cable select.

SATA is even simpler, just plug it in. There is no master or slave in SATA. plug in play will handle the rest.

After that it's a mater of installing software that come with your burner to use the drive.

HD video playback require lot's of processing power. If your CPU is a 3.6 Pentium 4 or AMD 4400+ and above, with 2GB of ram, i think you will not have any problems. You still can burn to Blu-ray a much slower processor. Though i don't recomend it.

[remember]

To takezo,

You say, "You still can burn to Blu-ray a much slower processor. Though i don't recomend it."

Why is that? I have the E4300 cpu. I am still trying to figure which mobo(motherboard) to get. Whichever one I get, the RAM will be at least 2gigs.

So, can you be more specific, as to which hardware specs you refer to when you recommend not to do recording on Blu-ray discs?

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by remember

To takezo,

You say, "You still can burn to Blu-ray a much slower processor. Though i don't recomend it."

Why is that? I have the E4300 cpu. I am still trying to figure which mobo(motherboard) to get. Whichever one I get, the RAM will be at least 2gigs.

So, can you be more specific, as to which hardware specs you refer to when you recommend not to do recording on Blu-ray discs?

Here's the type of computer I would recommend for basic BD burning:

1 GB RAM
Dual-Core processor (AMD or Intel, 1.66 GHZ+)
ATI Radeon X1600 graphics


This should easily get the job done.