DVD..oem or retail..please help

[FFactoryXX]

I still need a DVD or CDrom and dont know whether to get OEM or retail..i was looking at the bare drives. If i buy a bare drive, what do i need to hook it up. and do i need drivers or does windows have them. Alos i have a Maxtor 40gb 7200 ata/100 hd...does that or my new motherboard include anything i would need. Lastly what does the retail box have that bare doesnt..
Looking at
Toshiba 12x bare $65
Sony 52x Bare $32
Creative 52x Bare $35
Pionner Bare $65
if u know where i can get cheaper plese list

 

[upec]

You can get an OEM TOSHIBA 16X DVD for $59 and the shipping is $10 at newegg.com.
The retail will give you an manual, screw for mounting the drive, IDE cable, and audio cable to connect the drive to sound card.
I never install the driver for cd-roms or DVD-rams. I just use the one come with windows.

 

[Guest]

you can get the asus dvd-e612 for 80$ inclu S&H
bundeld with asus dvd 2000 .

 

[Guest]

Don't touch Asus 612. many problems with reading cd-rs.
check these:

http://www.sitepowerup.com/mb/view.asp?BoardID=113780

http://perso.club-internet.fr/farzeno/firmware/

http://www.3dsoundsurge.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/000641.html

Blue Skies Bring Tears

 

[Guest]

The big thing you get with most retail DVD drives is a copy of decent software DVD player. Sometimes people get a software player with a video card (which may or may not work with your DVD drive) or they already own a copy and you can save a few bucks buying an OEM. But if you have to pay $50 for one along with the drive, you might as well look for a retail boxed drive that comes with a copy. If you're real picky about which DVD drive you get, you may have to get the OEM drive anyways.

I haven't had a problem with the ASUS and DVDs. I've seen some problems with it and CD-Rs and even regular CD-Roms.

***check the jumpers 1st then check em again***