Hard Drive Help with Games

silversvt · 11-12-2005, 09:28 PM

I need some help with a harddrive question. I currently have a 40gb wd hd. It has 11gb left of space. My question is would adding a second hard drive and installing my starwarsgalaxies game on that hd and then running it from that hd help with any hd read problems? I am currently getting hd read lag in the game. I have
p4 2.0 o/c to 2.66
1gb ram
40gb wd 7200rpm 2mbcache hd
ati 9600xt video card

I didn't know if buying a new hd with 8mb cache and transfering all info from original drive to it or buying a second drive and just installing the games on that drive would be best for performance.

suprasteve · 11-15-2005, 01:44 AM

a bigger cache will help, but if you play a lot of games, look into getting a hard drive with around a 10k rpm speed or higher

[-0MEGA-] · 11-15-2005, 02:03 AM

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Originally Posted by suprasteve

a bigger cache will help, but if you play a lot of games, look into getting a hard drive with around a 10k rpm speed or higher

That wont help games too much, seeing that games run off of ram and not the hard drive. If i were you, i would invest in a larger hard drive with a larger cache size. and if you can, try to get a SATA2 hard drive.

11-12-2005, 09:28 PM	#1 (permalink)
silversvt New Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1	Hard Drive Help with Games I need some help with a harddrive question. I currently have a 40gb wd hd. It has 11gb left of space. My question is would adding a second hard drive and installing my starwarsgalaxies game on that hd and then running it from that hd help with any hd read problems? I am currently getting hd read lag in the game. I have p4 2.0 o/c to 2.66 1gb ram 40gb wd 7200rpm 2mbcache hd ati 9600xt video card I didn't know if buying a new hd with 8mb cache and transfering all info from original drive to it or buying a second drive and just installing the games on that drive would be best for performance.

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11-15-2005, 01:44 AM	#2 (permalink)
suprasteve Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Atlanta Posts: 1,355	a bigger cache will help, but if you play a lot of games, look into getting a hard drive with around a 10k rpm speed or higher