Hard disk drive comparison...

Just curious how much if any improvement would I see by going from:

200GB Ata100 7200 rpm 2mb cache

to

300GB Sata150 7200rpm 16mb cache?

Is it worth the upgrade? Not very expensive.

 

Like I said in your other post, which is almost exactly the same. As far as performance goes you won't see a big diffrence. The real reason to do this is to get more HD space. As for actual performance most people will not notice a diffrence, although it depends heavily on what you do. For most people the biggest diffrence you'll see is the computer will boot a second or two faster, but it sure isn't going to make games run any smoother or faster.

 

Sorry, didn't see reply in other post. But I am looking for load time being Faster. My system runs beautifully, Just looking for faster load times for games like Half Life 2, FarCry and the like that take long to load.

I have a 3.0Ghz P4 w/800Mhz FSB
2 sticks of ram, totaling a little over 1GB, one DDR 400 one DDR333, so here is another question, if I upgrade my 333 chip to 400, would I see an improvement in speed?

I have a 60GB ata/133 Hard Drive, 7200rpm 2MB Cache
Also 200GB Ata/100 Hard Drive 7200rpm, 2MB Cache.

I know my hard drives are running at Ata/100 because of slower one. I was told that you won't notice diff. between ata/100 and ata/133.

128MB Nvidia 5900XT video card.


Once a game loads, I can use full graphics, etc. runs BEAUTIFULLY. My only thing I'm working on is LOAD time. I'm not happy with the time it takes to load a game.

Half Life 2 for example takes like 30 seconds to load a level. Whereas World of Warcraft takes 3 seconds. Just trying to speed things up a little. Would it be worth update to and Amd 64 (Assuming the AMD 64 is the 64 bit processor?)

Any info is appreciated.