Nikko,

On your Plextor the ripping part should be fairly quick. I use a SCSI 24x Plextor reader and that yields an average read speed of about 18x in EAC - what ave. speeds are you seeing?

As an example, on a PIII-600 I can encode 192k VBR at about 3mins for a (LAME) 9300 frame size file, since the 2nd part is very cpu intensive you will see a big boost in performance.

Hey, I've just noticed the date on your post, re. I'm upgrading to a 1 gig/133 next week - presumably you have the new PC now? How does it compare in EAC?

Cheers,
Rue