Yes they fucking did, hell they were driving that thing. The Pentium 4 was a giant pile of shit, the only reason we aren't running 8 ghz p4s right now is AMD.
Meh, when the desire hits me I want to game then not reinstall and wait for the game to update.
The steam backup only seems to backup the core game data and they still have to update, sometimes those are gigs worth of data.
The current drive is a caviar black 2tb, it's been clicking and taking longer and longer to load things. I have been nursing it along but finally think I need to go ahead and clone it and just wait for it to die.
Speed of loading and games is really the only concern for the drive, I thought...
I had pretty much the same set up and it would chug on D3 when the enemies got thick @ 1080p.
But it wasn't horrible, and lived with it for about 6 months.
There hasn't been a compelling reason for me to spend over 150 bucks on a CPU for a long long time.
Kind of wish I did something more cpu intensive, I almost feel like a normal user.