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Hot-Rod Your CD-RW Drive

Posted by timothy on from the or-is-it-april-already dept.

Anonymous Coward writes: "Currently almost everyone with a computer has a CD-ROM drive and also a big part of them have a CD-RW drive. But what if you want to spend less time on writing a CD-R ? You have to buy a new one, or, if you are a real geek, you just overclock it! Seems to be to good to be true ? It's not! Currently a lot of cheap manufacturers of CD-RW drives are using the same parts in their 32x,40x, and 48x drives and start to sell them at 32x, later to 40x and in end as 48x. and with a little upgrading of the firmware (totally legal) you will have a faster drive, because you remove its limits! It currently works on drives from Lite-On (who also makes drives for Memorex, TDK, Iomega, Cendyne, TraxData and Pacific digital all overclockable) And the list goes on as there are also overclock tricks for LG (32x -> 40x) and Sony drives (32x -> 48x). If you don't believe it, read all the reactions and the postings on the forums mentioned above!"

3 of 285 comments (clear)

  1. Re:either you see it or you don't by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    no but the phrase hot-rod itself is gettin me so warm

  2. Re:Plextor? by Phist+Phucker · · Score: -1, Troll

    I want to put my hot-rodded penistor right in your ass!

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    Feel the PHIST!
  3. Corps is your father, corps is your mother by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Why are you talking about national security in that manner?

    Don't you know that national security is also your duty? If you're not a member of the Informant Corps, you've better join fast before your neighbour starts reporting on you instead.

    New New Order is coming (George Bush Sr.'s New World order got delayed) and if you're not a part of it, you'll be nothing.