Testing the Benq 1650 and more

[codajohn]

With overspeed on(part of qsuite) but using imgburn to turn it on I could burn them at 8x, 12x or 16x. The Benq actually burned them best at 12x.

Got any of those scans?

[NightTran]

I got the 1620 it will burn any thing bad or good old or new, thinking put my LO 1693 back in the closet and bring back the PI 111 test with that new firmware, with the way it goes it will take years for me to use all my benq burner 2/40, 1/50 and 1/55 still in the closet

[Chewy]

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?postid=443516#post443516

took a while to find it, thought I had put it in the dare thread

[codajohn]

@Chewy pretty nice. Would you recommend this operation as a regular setting or stick with the Golden Rules?

[Chewy]

when you can scan, there are no golden rules, you get to make your own,
intelligently of course.

I save 4-5 minutes burning at 8X and get just as good a burns as at 4X, 12X
is not as good with my other burners, the benq is the exception not the rule.

I only save a couple of minutes with 12X anyway.

[NightTran]

my golden rules :

8x all the way
+ for the 20/40
- for the 50/55
4x/12x/16x are testing and they are giving away ( I dont keep them)

[codajohn]

I guess I need to put the Benq through it's paces now that it's in a xp machine. Originally in a 98se machine, I mostly used it to scan at 4x and 8x (a few burns when the lap was busy). Using a 800mh processor, recoding took a long time.
Chewy, have you changed your fw to BCIC in your 1650? I know you had a much earlier fw back when I got mine.