Dedicated OS drive?

Anyone find, or hear, that having your OS (mine is XP) on a separate drive from any other major application generally increases performance? I have two applications that suggest doing it, but they both stream large files continuously. Anyone hear of general improvement in application speed (say, in high end games) when doing this kind of setup?

Thanks much!

Dave

 

It won't really make any diffrence for gaming. Gaming puts the bulk of its work on the video card. The HD will not be the bottle neck in gaming unless you've got some really out dated system, and even if you do chances are messing with the HD won't speed up your games.

It can be speed up a computer in general, but only for high end work really, and I do mean work, not games. Like actually encoded videos or using something like 3d studios it may cause a SLIGHT performance increase, but since games are dependant upon the video card it's not going to help them.

Also, just so you know, when they say other HD, it means other physical HD. Creating another partition on the same HD would not help as much. Although a partition would help keep things a little cleaner, you'd need another HD to really impact it at all, and even if you did the impact is going to be very minimal.