Buying Blu-ray burner

extreme222 2008-09-02 19:23:02 UTC #1

I need some help buying a blu-ray burner, formy pc, all i know is that i want a good drive to work with my evga 780I FTW board.

I was looking at the new LG but from what u i read there are some issues
with evga chipset, as well i will be buying the 50GB disks as well to burn with..

Thanks

zevia 2008-09-02 21:50:41 UTC #2

The issue with evga chipset is not only for LG drive but for all SATA drives including non blu-ray. They love to be hooked up to an intel chipset.

Even if you have an evga/nvidia chipset I would still suggest you get the LG blu-ray drive. Upgrade all the drivers (mobo, video, software, windows) and firmware of the LG. If everything fails you can get a cheap PCI SATA card such as this one and connect your LG to this Syba card.

extreme222 2008-09-03 02:43:02 UTC #3

thanks but i have not had any issues with sata knock on wood LOL

raymondtrudeau 2008-09-03 14:54:20 UTC #4

[QUOTE=zevia;2120996]The issue with evga chipset is not only for LG drive but for all SATA drives including non blu-ray. They love to be hooked up to an intel chipset.

does anyone have a uses manual for this card? the web site does not have it? thanks and do i just plug it in a free card slot on my mb,and then the power? i have now 2 standard burners that are hooked up by the old way…can i still keep these burners as well as a new sata burner?

extreme222 2008-09-03 22:16:22 UTC #5

Thanks man hopefully this drive works