Which should I get: Faster RAM or Faster HDD?

[Talus]

Re: Which should I get: Faster RAM or Faster HDD?

Which is fine I suppose.

They are, after all, trying to help by giving their opinion.

[Berrern]

Re: Which should I get: Faster RAM or Faster HDD?

There's no point at all in upgrading your RAM, you wont notice any performance increase either in-game or in Windows with a 'boost' of 67MHz.

If it's not too late to change your order (it probably is? ), go for a Raptor 10.000RPM or a S-ATA 3GB/s harddrive. You wont notice any better in-game performance, but load times and client verification will be notably faster.

[KB-smoker]

Re: Which should I get: Faster RAM or Faster HDD?

Talus

I'm starting to believe that one of the main problems around here is that nobody actually reads any of the starting posts,and that they just respond to the thread headline.

no...one of the main reason is people don't deleted their threads once they get answers to the problem. I don't visit this site much and i sure don't take time to read everyone suggestion.

[Talus]

Re: Which should I get: Faster RAM or Faster HDD?

Umm...it's not a good idea to delete threads. Maybe CLOSING a thread is a good idea. But not deleting it.

Deleting it eliminates the possibility that somebody comes along with the same question and finds help using the Search function.

[Death Merchant]

Re: Which should I get: Faster RAM or Faster HDD?

i remember reading that a 7200rpm sata150 hardrive is the same as a ide 10k rpm hardrive

[Sir. MatDef]

Re: Which should I get: Faster RAM or Faster HDD?

i remember reading that a 7200rpm sata150 hardrive is the same as a ide 10k rpm hardrive

They perform similarly if the 7200rpm drive has a 16mb cache, but even then the 10k will be a little faster.

[Flanker]

Re: Which should I get: Faster RAM or Faster HDD?

The faster a drive spins, the faster it accesses data. The more cache a HDD has, the more amount of data it can access at one time. Either way, you get improved performance as far as load times go.

Get a 10,000RPM HDD or a SATA150/SATA3.0 HDD with 16mb cache. Faster RAM won't help you but a faster HDD will.