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morocomojo
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Does hard drive speed make a difference in computer speed? Im deciding whether to buy a hard drive at 10,000 rpm or not. Would it affect my fps for different games?
Digital_Junkie
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Going from 7200 rpm's to 10,000 rmp's won't make as much of a difference as making a RAID 0 array with two 7200rpm drives. Now two 10,000 rmp drives would be kick-ass.
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morocomojo
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Yeah, im planning on buying a Area-51 5300. Its gonna have...
2 GB ram
nVidia 6800 GT Video Card
3.8 Ghz Processor
two 74 GB hard drives at 10,000 rpm
Im really excited about it. How do you think it will perform?
2 GB ram
nVidia 6800 GT Video Card
3.8 Ghz Processor
two 74 GB hard drives at 10,000 rpm
Im really excited about it. How do you think it will perform?
Getting even a small harddrive upgrade will you give probably one of the most noticable differences to your system speed (ofcourse if you jump 3 video card generations in one upgrade then it will be more noticable).
Your computer will boot up faster, you'll log in faster, all those programs that run at startup will all be run in a shorter amount of time, as well as any programs you run later on such as steam and HL2. Level loading times and saving games will be shorter and overall game performance will improve as windows will be able to read and write to the page file faster (and even on system with 4gb of RAM, windows still keeps dumping amazing amounts of info to the pagefile).
That being said, 7,200rpm to 10,000rpm isn't a HUGE leap. I'd equate that to upgrading from a radeon 9600 to a radeon 9800. Sure it'll perform faster, but is it worth the extra cash? As another guy said, you'll be better off with two 7,200rpm drives in a RAID-0 array rather than one 10,000rpm drive. If you already have a hard-drive from your current computer that is of any decent size, I'd recommend asking your computer dealer about hooking that particular model up into a RAID-0 array and then buying a second 7,200rpm harddrive for it. That ofcourse is very dependant on your current HD, because if the old HD is over a year or two old then you may find it could start failing soon, and the disadvantage of RAID-0 is that when one harddrive fails, you pretty much lose all the data on both drives.
Your computer will boot up faster, you'll log in faster, all those programs that run at startup will all be run in a shorter amount of time, as well as any programs you run later on such as steam and HL2. Level loading times and saving games will be shorter and overall game performance will improve as windows will be able to read and write to the page file faster (and even on system with 4gb of RAM, windows still keeps dumping amazing amounts of info to the pagefile).
That being said, 7,200rpm to 10,000rpm isn't a HUGE leap. I'd equate that to upgrading from a radeon 9600 to a radeon 9800. Sure it'll perform faster, but is it worth the extra cash? As another guy said, you'll be better off with two 7,200rpm drives in a RAID-0 array rather than one 10,000rpm drive. If you already have a hard-drive from your current computer that is of any decent size, I'd recommend asking your computer dealer about hooking that particular model up into a RAID-0 array and then buying a second 7,200rpm harddrive for it. That ofcourse is very dependant on your current HD, because if the old HD is over a year or two old then you may find it could start failing soon, and the disadvantage of RAID-0 is that when one harddrive fails, you pretty much lose all the data on both drives.
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ydoucare
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To avoid any confusion, it's not going to give you any framerate gain AT ALL. A faster drive could help reduce stuttering, but with enough memory the game should not have to read from the drive enough to cause any stuttering. The system you mentioned would have no performance issues anyways.
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Huge Cohones
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morocomojo said:
and yet another mofo showing of his uber comp asking if it will "perform" / "run THA game"
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barrell
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Just remember the 10K drives run VERY HOT!!! :flame:
Consider drive a cooler for it.
(Don't even ask how I know.)
Consider drive a cooler for it.
(Don't even ask how I know.)
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It'll run pretty crap - it doesn't exist =)morocomojo said:
Yeah, I'm "planning" on getting a similar rig too - when I win the lottery!
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Go AMD 64 instead of Intel.morocomojo said:
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michaelsil1 said:
I would've but Alienware dosent offer it yet. Im getting a small form factor PC (SFF). Its pretty cool. Do you think I'll have heat problems cause of its small size and maxed out specs? Im also worried about the fact I didnt get a soundcard for it, all that stuff is integrated. Are soundcards really all that important?
Plus I was wondering what speed the AMD Athlon FX-55 (I think thats what its called) runs at? Faster than even the Intel 3.8 Ghz?
