Would my amd 6000+ be useless with this hard drive?

[jonny-chip]

lite-on dvdrw shw 160p65 would this slow down a amd 6000+ ?
here a link to some of the same models . This is for the specs of the hard drive
http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=lite-on+dvdrw+shw+&hl=en&um=1&sa=X&oi=froogle&ct=title

What you reckon ?

 

[StrangleHold]

Those are not harddrives they are DVD Burners. No, theres no reason a burner will slow down your X2 6000

 

[jonny-chip]

oh lmao so where can i find my hardrive on my pc !

 

[cheburns]

lol it will be inside your case... why does it matter? what exactly are you trying to do? either way your hard drive will look like this http://www.ptdd.com/datarecovery/images/hard-drive2.jpg and it doesn't affect your processor speed it runs on its own speeds

 

[jonny-chip]

you sure i seen reviews that hard drives can slow down your cpu

 

[nexolus]

do you believe everything you read? a bad hard drive can slow down read/write times but not your cpu.

 

[cheburns]

yea it can be slow and maybe it would seem the same a slow cpu but they are completely independent in terms of their speeds

 

[heyman421]

Well now, it DOES require CPU clocks to operate any i/o device.

 

[jonny-chip]

hmmm intresting, have a look http://www.basichardware.com/hard_drive.html

 

[cheburns]

thats saying exactly what we're saying... that the cpu speed isn't affected, but it just sits there while your hard drive is trying to find whatever it is it needs to find. You want a fast hard drive (in terms of read and seek time and all that) but if you have a slow one it doesn't hurt your processor it just won't be as fast as your processor so it will make the whole machine SEEM slower... but the cpu will run at the same speed.

 

[jonny-chip]

ok ok so my hard drive wont affect my cpu while i play on a game ?

 

[oscaryu1]

When you play an game it only uses the HDD (or event eh CD drive) to load the game. After that its usually for the GPU, CPU and RAM.

 

[jonny-chip]

ok thankyou very much

 

[StrangleHold]

Just get something like a 16mb cache, Sata3.0 harddrive and you will be fine.

 

[PohTayToez]

I don't really think you can get a "slow" hard drive anymore ('cept maybe a 5400RPM for a laptop)... there are just hard drive and fast hard drives. Most people can't even tell the difference.