LG GCE-8520B / 8521B????

by **NW53** on Mon Jan 27, 2003 1:36 am

My LG is the GCE-8520B 52x24x52x come with nero 5.5.9.9 and as Mt. Rainier support, but the US web site show only the GCE-8521B, are they the same?? both drives are 52x24x52x.

by **Raz0rX** on Mon Jan 27, 2003 10:14 am

Hey hey, mind to do some burning speed testings and can you report to us if it's media friendly? I am planning to get one too since it's cheap here.

by **Ian** on Mon Jan 27, 2003 11:59 am

All I have to say is that it won't write to the Fuji 48x media at 52x.

by **Raz0rX** on Mon Jan 27, 2003 12:04 pm

Whoa, even expensive discs 48x rated TY can't be burnt @ 52x using this writer

But did the disc burnt @ 48x or even lower speed?

by **Ian** on Mon Jan 27, 2003 12:27 pm

I haven't done a lot of write testing with the drive yet. I just noticed that it limited the maximum writing speed to 48x with the Fuji discs.

At least it uses P-CAV when rewriting though.

by **pedro99** on Mon Jan 27, 2003 1:46 pm

tdk (ritek) 32x and 40x write at 52x with no error.

pedro

by **Raz0rX** on Mon Jan 27, 2003 2:01 pm

Anybody tried with Princo or Plasmon CDR?

Hey finally, LG has made the firmware flasher Windows based!

by **pedro99** on Mon Jan 27, 2003 2:19 pm

Princo 48x still write at 48x.

by **Raz0rX** on Mon Jan 27, 2003 3:04 pm

Hey Pedro99, can you burn a full 80 minutes @ 52x for Ritek and 48x for Princo and tell me the total time required?

TIA.

by **pedro99** on Mon Jan 27, 2003 4:25 pm

Princo 2:38 min. and tdk 2:36 min.I did the test with nero.the drive start to write at 52x when your at 98 percent of the writing process.I thing you can get the real benefit when writing a 90 min. are 99 min. cd.

pedro

by **Raz0rX** on Mon Jan 27, 2003 6:14 pm

Thank you for the testings, the write times aren't that bad compare with the Liteon 52x. I will head out for this tomorrow, hope it isn't as media picky as my previous LG 40x RW.

by **Raz0rX** on Tue Jan 28, 2003 7:54 pm

I thought this drive would also read CDR @ 52x max but it didn't. Hope new firmware will add a new speed boost feature.

I also like when you insert CDR media to the drive, the maximum speed for that particular disc is shown instead of displaying the max speed 52x for all media inserted.

by **Kennyshin** on Thu Jan 30, 2003 4:43 pm

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php ... adid=62989

LG 48x 8480B and 8481B overclockable to LG 52x with GCE-8520B firmware. I don't know if this also applies to 8482B.

by **freestyle** on Fri Jan 31, 2003 8:34 pm

yep ive done it, burnt 48x TDK @ 52x. i also hope like raz0r that future firmware wil allow 48x/52x read speed. good burner for 79.99 cdn the 8481b is.

by **Raz0rX** on Fri Jan 31, 2003 11:05 pm

I got my LG 52xRW for $80, quite good deal I say.

LG GCE-8520B / 8521B????

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