DVD burner system requirments?

I\'m gonna buy a DVD burner, but since I have a laptop and a slow desktop it\'s alot cheaper to buy one for the desktop as I don\'t have to buy an enclosure.  Problem is that the Desktop is a PIII 450mhz and the system requirments for the DVD burner is a cpu of 500mhz.  Question is, will it still work with a lower cpu, or will I have to buy a god damned enclosure?  BTW, speed doesn\'t matter as I rarely use the desktop, and can leave it alone for long times on end.

Won\'t matter.  Just turn down the processes, so you can give the burning program 100% of the CPU.  Use a program with burn-proof, and a good size buffer.... and make sure it can be set to highest priority when you burn.  Really, though, I\'m sure it\'ll work right.  If it messes up at 4x, try 2x, then 1x.  Slow but effective.  

Heh, I have a good comp, but modern programs/burners seem never to mess up.  I\'m running P2P, newsgroups, IE (this), SETI@home, messenger, and I\'m burning a DVD all at the same time right now, and like always, whenever the burning program needs some extra CPU time, it just takes it (for like 1 sec).

sweet, thanks for the reply.

Also, is it as simple to back up a DVD as it is a CD?

At the fastest buring rate how long does a DVD-RW burn a cd. That and what size disk. I Just want to wipe my HD and keep the things i need on DVD so im in the market for a decent but cheap one.

Not quite as simple.  For instance, if you wanted to make a backup copy of most DVDs, they are bigger than the 4.7 gigs u have.  You have to use a program (there are lots of them, go look), to down-sample the video so that it will fit.  If you remove unecessary extras and stuff from menus, you will get more room.

A warning to you, doing this with high quality is a long, CPU intensive and hard drive intensive process.  On a 500 Mhz celeron, you are going to be looking at FOREVER to make backups.  It takes a while to do 8 pass VBR on anything, let alone 5-8 gig video files.  You can check in the a.b.dvdr newsgroups though (have a good server, and be on broadband or there\'s no point) to see if someone\'s already done the work for you (on your OWN DVDs of course).

Check doom9 for info.

yea i suggest dvd shrink for making back ups of dvd movies and if you need to make back up of other softwares i believe dvd decrypter works very well

but like fatal said check out http://www.doom9.net they have lots of good info