Thanks folks. The beast in question is a Celeron 900 with 384Mb RAM. When I'm burning I never have anything else running to minimise the chance of burning coasters, and all my blanks are rated at least 40x. Can enabling DMA really make a big difference on its own?
I did read a review of the Liteon , after I bought it
which suggested it was blindingly fast on burning data, not so on music?
With reference to the processor speed, I have SiS Sandra installed on mine, the question was more in terms of how to find it on somebody else's computer. Control Panel System certainly doesn't give that information on mine, just Windows98 under System, and under Computer; Genuine Intel x86, Family 6 Model 8, Stepping 10. whatever that means. (x86?????)