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Taking into consideration the popularity of small formfactor PC's, 'combo drives' are the perfect match for space lacking cases such as those tiny toaster-sized PCs.
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Supported formats, CDWinbench 99, Sandra
Nero is such a great program, and with
Nero's InfoTool we can see what type of media is supported by the MSI X48. The
drive can read regular CD-R's, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VideoCD,
CD Text and C2 Errors.
Users with DVD burners please note that the
drive does not read DVD+RW or DVD+R media!
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| PCStats Test System Specs: |
| processor: |
intel pentium 4 3.0c |
| clock
speed: |
15 x 200 mhz = 3.0 ghz |
| motherboards: |
gigabyte ga-8knxp |
| videocard: |
ati radeon 9800 pro |
| memory: |
2x 256mb corsair twinx3200ll |
| hard drive:
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40gb western digital special
ed. |
| cdrom: |
msi x48 |
| powersupply: |
vantec 470w stealth psu |
| software
setup |
windowsxp build 2600
intel inf 5.02.1012
catalyst
4.4 |
| workstation
benchmarks |
cd winbench 99
sisoft sandra 2002
nero cd
speed | |
CD Winbench 99 |
Source: Zdnet |
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The CD Winbench99 benchmark runs a series of
scripted programs from a special CD in the drive and measures the time and data
transfer capabilities as a result. Higher numbers mean better performance.
The MSI
X48 combo drive is the fastest drive we've tested in CD Winbench 99, which is
definitely very good.
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SiSoft Sandra 2002 |
Source: Sandra |
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Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of
a complete system and individual components. The numbers taken though are again,
purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.
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Sisoft Sandra 2002 Benchmark
Results |
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Optical
Drive |
MSI X48
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AOpen 52x32x52x |
Samsung SW-252B |
MSI
CR52A-A2 |
Plextor W4012TA |
LG 32x10x40 |
| Disc Type |
Data |
Data |
Data |
Data |
Data |
Data |
| Drive Index |
2187 |
2133 |
2207 |
2426 |
1992 |
1974 |
| Buffered Read: |
1780 kb/s |
1600 kb/s |
1582 kb/s |
1893 kb/s |
2300 kb/s |
1627 kb/s |
| Sequential Read: |
3005 kb/s |
2970 kb/s |
3284 kb/s |
3408 kb/s |
2802 kb/s |
2919 kb/s |
| Random Read: |
961 kb/s |
877 kb/s |
792 kb/s |
952 kb/s |
776 kb/s |
551 kb/s |
| Access Time: |
363ms |
411 ms |
245 ms |
194 ms |
238 ms |
73 ms |
In SiSoft Sandra the MSI X48 is also very fast,
access time is a bit on the high side but overall it's still an impressive
showing.
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