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| CDFreaks presents BenQ DW1670 Preview BenQ Taiwan graciously provided an early engineering sample of the new DW1670 DVD writer. Check out our preview ! Questions, comments or additional tests can be requested here. Please keep in mind that we will also be working on a full review for this DVD burner!
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| Re: CDFreaks presents BenQ DW1670 Preview i want! ![]() does the drive support PIE/PIF scanning?
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| Re: CDFreaks presents BenQ DW1670 Preview Hi Wesociety Thanks a lot for this preview. I must say that I'm not sure about the move away from the Philips chip/SB/OS etc. But the drive & it's 'clone' Sonys' 820 show that the drive has some potential. However despite it being early days I have doubts as to whether I'll add this to BenQ stable (1620x1 1640x3 1650x2 1655x2). BTW I don't know if it's just me, but the 'in this forum thread' link didn't work Thanks once again.. |
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| Re: CDFreaks presents BenQ DW1670 Preview Quote:
It is unknown whether or not the final retail unit will support this feature. BenQ did say that it should support some features of QSuite.
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| Re: CDFreaks presents BenQ DW1670 Preview Just notice that the drive sticker is on the top of the drive covering the rounded cooling system, just like DW1655. While DW1640 and DRU-820 sticker is on the bottom drive. Probably doesn't make any difference. Quote:
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| Re: CDFreaks presents BenQ DW1670 Preview doesn't look too different from the 1655
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| Re: CDFreaks presents BenQ DW1670 Preview Good preview Wes.! |
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| Re: CDFreaks presents BenQ DW1670 Preview features are the same
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| Re: CDFreaks presents BenQ DW1670 Preview Quote:
![]() @Wesociety. Thanks for the preview.
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| Re: CDFreaks presents BenQ DW1670 Preview the 1670 has Mount Rainier. I vaguely remember all the hype surrounding it last time
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| Re: CDFreaks presents BenQ DW1670 Preview Thanks for the preview Wes.
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| Re: CDFreaks presents BenQ DW1670 Preview Thanks for this preview , now almost all BenQ 1670 questions are answered. Quote:
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| Re: CDFreaks presents BenQ DW1670 Preview I forsee no solidburn and no overspeed unless the firmware allows it as the chipset is totally different to the DW1655. The only advantage I see is the RAM support but I dont have any RAM discs nor equipment that uses RAM. I am sticking with my DW1655. Look forward to reading the full review though.
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| Re: CDFreaks presents BenQ DW1670 Preview Hi. I am curious as to you folks that have multiple DVD burners in your Sig. User zebedae reports eight burners!! :-) Wow! I'm wondering what I am missing, as I only have one, which suits me fine. Could you guys fill me on how you guys fully utilize all of those?! Thanks. |
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| Re: CDFreaks presents BenQ DW1670 Preview @bondisdead some dvd writers make very high quality burns, like the lg 4163/4167, but they can't report pie/pif. so some users have drives for writing, drives for error scanning, drives for ripping and drives for everyday use. it's just a hobby for most of them.
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| Re: CDFreaks presents BenQ DW1670 Preview Quote:
Hence the name of the forum: CD Freaks!
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| Re: CDFreaks presents BenQ DW1670 Preview Kprobe scans have been redone and reposted for: MKM001 MKM01RD30 RITEK008 The original scans had low sampling counts.
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| Re: CDFreaks presents BenQ DW1670 Preview Quote:
Actually i've counted 12 drives" Hi It's funny cause I make it 14. My pc has 4 IDEs' + 2 pci cards allowing a max of 12 DVDRWs'. Plus 2 external firewire/usb & 1 usb only. I don't always have all the drives in situ all the time. Currently there are 6 drives internally & 2 external. I do have a Plextor 708, Pioneer 109 & a BenQ 1640 in another pc. | |
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Thank you. | |
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| Re: CDFreaks presents BenQ DW1670 Preview Nice review,but on page 2 you say:"Hard disks: Maxtor 6Y080P0 26.3GB" Do you mean partition size,because: Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 80GB Hard Drive (ATA-133, 7200 RPM, 8MB - SKU: 6Y080P0) |
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| Re: CDFreaks presents BenQ DW1670 Preview i find this a little odd. why did benQ release the dw1655 only to release another drive 2-3 months later. i bought the 1655 and just installed the first fimware release for it. now all of the sudden we have a whole new drive? was the time span so short between the 1640 and 1655? |
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| Re: CDFreaks presents BenQ DW1670 Preview any idea if Benq will ever see the day in retail stores like Bestbuy,compusa,circuitcity?
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