This thing has been sitting on my floor for about 6 months or more. I bought it because my old DVD burner...well it burnt out on me. So after not having one for close to a year or better I finally installed it.

Is that odd or does anyone else do that kind of shit?

 

I have a 10/100/1000 NIC sitting new in box that I just never installed.

Of course I'd gain nothing by installing it, my switch is only a 10/100.

 

I find that odd

 

i think that 12.5 megs a second is plenty up/down for 99% of traffic anyway.



my DVD writer was a phillips and one day i just upgraded it to a benQ multiformat because they are the same hardware-- best $0 i ever spent

 

re-flashing ftw!

 

seriously it went from a 8x+RW (+DL) to 16X all formats

 

only a few of them do that

 

I have a 200GB drive still in its plastic wrap. h:

 

well the thing is that philips/benQ are sick at this stuff.

if i had the choice i'd only buy drives made by that alliance as BenQ has the facilities for making the drives, and Philips being one of the main pushers of the +R group has the chip technologies needed for a drive.

another selling point is since the philips drives usually feature the same hardware as the benQ's-- BUT they dont want to include -R support.. meaning they drop in price so fast that you can just buy one and reflash it to a more expensive drive.

so in the end i end up with what is probably the most updated and compatible DVD+-RW(DL) drives for the price of an entry level +RW(DL) drive-- the BenQ1620 (some say it's better than even their most recent offerings, so i'm goign to be keeping this one for a while)

 

i have a couple video games still in their original packaging