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Old 09-16-08   #3871 (permalink)
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Most games have copy protection on them. My favorite program for ripping them is Alcohol 120%.
Tell me; If i were to use Alcohol to make images of my games, and mount them instead of using a cd and optical drive, would there be any notable performance increases?

Or should i just stick with my dvd-drive?
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wats the point of 5.1 when u have them all in front of you?
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Tell me; If i were to use Alcohol to make images of my games, and mount them instead of using a cd and optical drive, would there be any notable performance increases?

Or should i just stick with my dvd-drive?
alcohol 120 and daemon tools are both great programs..Their might be a boost actually because your running off a HDD not a CD.. So id say yeh

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wats the point of 5.1 when u have them all in front of you?
Yeah, never understood that. might as well just use the money on a better 2.1 system.

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yeah but i could do that but my mom is getting crazy now at the speakers i have now lol then she would get more crazy when i have an Z-2300 lol
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Thats a ghetto as desk, looks like it serves its purpose very well tho.

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