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hard drive?

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is the hard drive really a big factor on gaming? what would the specs b on a hard drive for gaming? thanks
 
i don't think that their that huge of a factor. if your cpu speed and amount of ram are upto par than you'll mostly have long loading times durning game start-up and whenever the game is loading another section of itself.
my suggestion would be any EIDE/ATA harddrive that is at least 7,200 rpm with a 8MB buffer. now some people might recommend certain but i personally have never had any problems with any of following brands: seagate, maxtor, and western digital.

as a side note: if you have the money to burn than you might want to look into western digital's raptor line of hard drives. they're 10,000 rpm drives and are made in two sizes 35GB and 74GB. they're more expensive than other EIDE drives but i don't think they'll break your bank.
 
Only when the game is really big and when the it's having to swap alot. If you've got a gig of RAM once the game is loaded you probably won't be able to tell.
 
or if you play a game that saves automatically frequently...basically any 7200rpm 8mb cache drive will be fine (reliability noise etc. aside)
 
it's a factor, but your CPU, GPU, and RAM are bigger factors

also, please be a little more descriptive in your thread titles and try to post in the correct forum
 
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