Asus CD-ROM what do you think ?

[BluesMan1]

http://www.directron.com/asus52xcdrom.html

It's the first time for me that i'm seeing an Asus CD-ROM, never tried one and never had a chance to talk to somebody who has try one so tell me what do you thing of it.

Please feel free to recommend something if this one is not good enough

[Barney]

I have had the 50x version for two and a half years. It's a great CD-ROM player, mainly because it comes with a program that lets you change the speed. The only problem I have with it is that the program doesn't work for me in Windows XP, though that might be because I have some SCSI hardware in my computer.

Can't go wrong at that price, I payed more than double back then.

[BluesMan1]

Thanks Barney for the input.

As i mentionned it's the first time that i'm aware that Asus is also having hardware like the CD-ROM. Asus for me was always related to motherboard but i will try it and see by myself.

Thanks again

What would be a great CD burner, can you recommend something ?

[Omardeth]

i think the asus cdroms are made by lite on

[Siliconjunkie]

I have that exact Asus that I got from Directron as well and the only coasters it has made are with dirty/scratched blanks. Under 3 min for 650 megs and I use cheap WalMart blanks.

Basically thumbs up from me for the drive and the retailer.

[[Neo770]]

I have one of those 2 year old 50x drives as well, the build quality was great. I do feel however that the newer 52x drive is not up to the same standard, it just dose't feel as solid, and dosen't seem to read at full speed enough of the time. Not saying its a bad drive though, it still manages to read nearly anything.

[Beemer]

The 50X Max has a slow startup time. I've been running one for a year now and just about every CD drive I come across blows it away in starting up.

Pretty fast once it spins up though.

Cheers!

[SeanC]

I hate Asus CDROM drives!! They couldn't read ANY CD-R's!!

It cost my company a couple thousand to replace them with LG CDROM drives and cost me A LOT of time to do the replacing.

Stay away from them.

Sean

[Omardeth]

here is a great deal on a lite on drive . http://www.bananapc.com/Products/pro...classif_id=638
if your looking for a cdrom

[skuz]

My brother has no problems reading CDRs with his 52x Asus.