Last week I bought a new Dell Dimension system
AMD X2 5000, 2GB, Vista.
Overall I've been fairly happy with it.
Last night I went to rip my first CD with it, expecting blistering
speeds, and hot CD's coming out of the drive.
That was not the case, instead it leasurly picked up the CD
and started ripping at 1x. It then slowly worked it's way up
to 6x through the CD. I figured it must be a dodgy CD or something
however it wasn't. The CD was perfect.
I tried the same CD in my Athlon 1700 and it achieved
an an average 8x (Starting at 4x and getting faster towards
the outside of the disc), and probably would have gone
faster if it weren't for the fact that it maxed out the processor.
I spent a few hours checking the system out, trying different
controller drivers, making sure a high DMA setting was selected...
but didn't make any difference... it would seem the systems
working optimally....
Tried WMP and got the same results.
Thinking now it might just be because it's got a cheap DVD writer in it,
where as my Athlon's got a decent NEC drive.
I would try swapping them over, only the NEC is PATA.
What rip speeds do you guys get on modern machines?
I was ripping to APE normal compression.
(Edit Secure Rip)