Overclocking cd-rw drives?

fudgamfudgam Upstate New York
edited October 2003 in Hardware
I saw someones signature that mentioned an overclocked cd-rw drive? Is that possible? If it is, how far could you push it?

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  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    You can only do it on drives that allow you to flash the firmware to that of another drive, i.e. Flashing a Liteon 46x10x40 to a very similar model that runs at 52x12x52 or something along those lines. You cant just "overclock" a CD-RW. It also isn't overclocking. Dire misuse of the term.

    Afaik there are only a few drives that this can be done with, one possibly more from Liteon and the Sony U10A (DVD+-RW).

    NS
  • Mr_BojinglesMr_Bojingles Northern Michigan New
    edited October 2003
    yea, i remember hearing about how you could take a 40x lite-on burner, flash the firmware, and then bam! You have a 48x burner.
  • fudgamfudgam Upstate New York
    edited October 2003
    isnt that nifty
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited October 2003
    with liteon's 52x32x52x being 36.99 OEM even my broke ass can scrape the cash for that...


    Gobbles
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Gobbles had this to say
    with liteon's 52x32x52x being 36.99 OEM even my broke ass can scrape the cash for that...


    Gobbles

    You may have bought the older drive before the new one existed, thus upgrading your drive to the newer one without paying anything.

    NS
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