How much does a HD affect gaming?

[rage3324]

Would one see an increase in frame rate if they were to upgrade from a 8mb 7200pm pata drive to a sata 300 16mb 7200rpm drive?

 

[Faintingcow]

Probably not frame rates, maybe load times and such, not much.

 

[f1y]

frame rate.. absolutly not.. if there is any increase. it'd be minimal. <2 frams a sec. i'd say

 

[valve1138]

Probably not frame rates, maybe load times and such, not much.

I agree.

 

[thebeephaha]

It can affect frame rates if the game tried to load environmental items while the game is running, like in Oblivion, if I walk into a new sector and it has to load something the frames can drop momentarily then recover. This has since been eliminated since I got my Raptors but on my old Seagates I noticed it for sure.

 

[Farva]

Frame rates and loading time are two completely different things. Frame rates is done solely by your video card while loading times are done by your hard drive. I don't think you'll see much of an increase from an 8MB cache to 16BM cache. You'll see the difference though from a 7200rpm drive to a Raptor though.

 

[shade_star]

Your frame rate wont increase directly but the data from the harddrive to memory will increase. This removes a bottleneck in the system as most everything is grabbed from RAM.