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I hereby predict that a 3200+ and two drives running 24/7 will never cause an overheating problem when you get at least a little air out of the case. Even the Power Supply might be enough.

Are many of your CDs copy protected? How you can handle that is not only a question of the software you use, but also of the drive's firmware, so you might want to inform yourself on compatibility issues beforehand.

[AresProphet]

Yeah, an open-case PC with a nice big box fan simply cannot overheat. Unless you don't have a heatsink on the CPU which would be the stupid. I had to run that configuration a couple times when I was crammed into a dorm room during 100 degree midwestern humid heat and tried to dual-box on EverQuest.

Yeah, my crappy Dell at the time didn't like that.


I'm thinking a 400W power supply will be enough. You'll have a couple drives running but no power-hungry DX9 graphics card. Can pick up a Thermaltake 420W for $35 on Newegg, same one I have, and it runs stable and cool.

I'm fairly sure 320kb/s is all you'll need; isn't that what CD audio is recorded at anyway? I'm really not familiar with the vagaries of CD formatting and all but was under the impression it's a relatively inefficient method of storing music. Something like it's really redundant so even a scratched CD will still read.

I'm probably full of shit.

[Adam Ruining]

The reason you can scratch a CD and have it still work is because the bottom layer coating the metal is designed to be thick because the designers knew that's where most of the wear would occur.

Scratch the top of a CD, however, and you'll ruin the fuck out of it quickly because there's no protective top coat.