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System Setup
• CyberDrive CW099D 52X IDE CDRW Drive
• MSI K7N2-L, NVIDIA nForce2 Chipset, Socket A Athlon XP DDR Motherboard
• AMD Athlon XP2400+ 'Thoroughbred B' @ 15 x 133MHz FSB (2.00GHz)
• 2 x 256Mb Mushkin PC2700 DDR Memory Modules (CAS2, 2-5-2)
• Sapphire ATI Radeon R9700 Pro 128MB
• Windows XP Professional Build 2600.xpclient.010817-1148
• Nero InfoTool 1.03
• Nero Burning ROM 5.5.9.14
• Nero Drive Speed
• Nero CD Speed
Nothing much more to cover, the standard IDE device drivers with Windows XP were used, no specific NVIDIA drivers were installed for the IDE controller.
Audio and Data Read Performance
Benchmarking the drive is made easy using Nero CD Speed. We'll take a look at it reading a retail pressed audio CD (Underworld's excellent Beacoup Fish album) and a home written data CD (700MB CD number 2 of my personal Any Given Sunday DivX rip). Let's start with the audio performance to see if it can read a regular disc near its rated 52X speed for those fast audio CD rips.
52X audio reading in evidence!
52X CAV audio reading performance, low CPU usage (although that's driver related) and better overall seek times than the TX Venus give the CyberDrive some good first numbers to build on. The start speed of 23X is also quite impressive and all the numbers posted are better than the TX Venus.
52X data reading comes out to play too
It does even better with the data CD with lower seek times, slightly higher data rates and lower CPU usage, way less than the TX Venus on Tarinders Intel test setup (although CPU usage is all down to the driver). It's 99.7% of the rated speed which is spot on in my book. Of course the performance could be down to the media being tested, but regardless of that, the CyberDrive puts in a great display.
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