games and hardrives

DarkTears · 01-18-2009, 10:13 PM

The faster your hardrive the better your games are because you can access the game files faster? Is this true?

weelock · 01-18-2009, 11:22 PM

i upgraded my hard drive to a 250gb and mine is a p4 2.8ghz with 1gb ram and that was alot qwicker after i put the new harddrive in this might be becuse the other hard drive was nearly full thogh.

and i mean it was qwicker on games too

joeb42 · 01-21-2009, 10:15 PM

I am not an expert on gaming and the many requirements that today's
gaming enthuiasts reguire. However a few things to note are : Games are hogs of memory, expecially recent big end memory intensive ones.The more memory your video card has usually means less stalls, more stable frame rates, and loading times will indeed speed up . When the video card has insufficient ram it turns to the MB ram for help . This slows things up .

Dependent on the version of your OS, the amount for ram, to offset the headaches that newer games will bring , is very important. While 1Gig
will suffice for Vista Basic ,Vista Home Premium will need 2 to 3 Gigs
to avoid system hiccups down the road.

This brings us to the point where ,in serious gaming ,the MB Ram must be
sufficient to handle the top heavy OS plus the games' demand in the event
that the video Ram is insufficient.

konsole · 01-23-2009, 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by weelock

i upgraded my hard drive to a 250gb and mine is a p4 2.8ghz with 1gb ram and that was alot qwicker after i put the new harddrive in this might be becuse the other hard drive was nearly full thogh.

and i mean it was qwicker on games too

it looks like darktears is talking about the "rpm" speed of his hard drive, not the processor speed or the amount of memory. The 2 main faster speeds out there now 7,200 rpm and 10,000, not sure if you would see a huge difference playing games going from the slower to the faster cuz the speed capability of things like hard drives and network cards etc tend to be way more then is needed. Could be wrong though. maybe the sata hard drives can transfer at 3.0 gb/s but I'm not sure I have ever seen it.

**Cromewell** · 01-21-2009, 10:58 PM

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The faster your hardrive the better your games are because you can access the game files faster? Is this true?

No. The faster your hard drive the faster your games load/save but that's where it stops. You don't gain and FPS or anything like that.

01-18-2009, 10:13 PM	#1 (permalink)
DarkTears banned Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 585	games and hardrives The faster your hardrive the better your games are because you can access the game files faster? Is this true?

01-21-2009, 10:15 PM	#3 (permalink)
joeb42 New Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 4	games and harddrives I am not an expert on gaming and the many requirements that today's gaming enthuiasts reguire. However a few things to note are : Games are hogs of memory, expecially recent big end memory intensive ones.The more memory your video card has usually means less stalls, more stable frame rates, and loading times will indeed speed up . When the video card has insufficient ram it turns to the MB ram for help . This slows things up . Dependent on the version of your OS, the amount for ram, to offset the headaches that newer games will bring , is very important. While 1Gig will suffice for Vista Basic ,Vista Home Premium will need 2 to 3 Gigs to avoid system hiccups down the road. This brings us to the point where ,in serious gaming ,the MB Ram must be sufficient to handle the top heavy OS plus the games' demand in the event that the video Ram is insufficient.

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01-18-2009, 11:22 PM	#2 (permalink)
weelock New Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 6	i upgraded my hard drive to a 250gb and mine is a p4 2.8ghz with 1gb ram and that was alot qwicker after i put the new harddrive in this might be becuse the other hard drive was nearly full thogh. and i mean it was qwicker on games too