WD Raptor upgrade - is it worth it?

[Boon59]

im thinking of upgrading my OS to a WD Raptor. will this make any difference to my perfomance?

[$G-MONEY SMITH$]

it will boot up faster and you could put bf2 on it but for 100 bucks its not that much of an improvement. i was contimplating on geting one but decided not to im kinda stuck on upgrading as of now...

[djstubbs]

it will boot up faster and you could put bf2 on it but for 100 bucks its not that much of an improvement. i was contimplating on geting one but decided not to im kinda stuck on upgrading as of now...

Instead of worrying about your hard drive you should get a new soundcard, your Live is horrible.

[FLIPINOM4D]

Instead of worrying about your hard drive you should get a new soundcard, your Live is horrible.

what are u talking about its a Audigy 2 ZS its recommended for BF2?

o yeh on topic, its not worth the money, just stay with what u got.

[Nitemare]

what are u talking about its a Audigy 2 ZS its recommended for BF2?

o yeh on topic, its not worth the money, just stay with what u got.

no he has a sound blaster live 24 bit, same as me but i havent gotten my computer yet

[djstubbs]

what are u talking about its a Audigy 2 ZS its recommended for BF2?

o yeh on topic, its not worth the money, just stay with what u got.

Look at who I quoted before criticizing next time.

[FLIPINOM4D]

o that dude

[$G-MONEY SMITH$]

eh its better than stock sound, takesa load off my cpu and im not dishing out hundreds of dollars for god damned sound that comes out of my headphones for chrsit sakes i dont even have 5.1 i havea 2.1 setup so nuthing special, but since im almost done upgrading my actual computer im going to start buying other stuff, new monitor, speakers, keyboard, mouse that kinda crap.

[ZiRo]

Does the audigy really make that much of a difference?

[$G-MONEY SMITH$]

i dont realy know and by the looks i think i have a audigy 2 or something its in the clients forum

[Sir. S.A.S]

Its a wicked upgrade, BF2 loads incredibly fast and i get in the action alot quicker than most pplmeaning first pick of vehicles.

But use a second HD to run windows as itl doesnt give u that much of an advantage, when windows is running on it too.

[NoSoup4You]

10k vs 7.2k, isn't really much of a jump, I have 2 in RAID 0, and it ins't that much faster at all. Only for huge files it maybe faster, other then that, no performance jump.

[Cyborg_Soldier]

SATAII vs raptor

I've been reading that SATAII is suppossed to be quite impressive. Here's a link I saved a couple of months ago http://www.cluboverclocker.com/revie...K250/index.htm
I think SATAII might make raptor drives obsolete by next year...

[Pedro]

no its not worth it... if you want the maps to load faster, defragment you drive or something... i mean, sure, a raptor will be faster, but not $100 faster...