I am buying an HP dv9500t laptop, and I am wondering whether or not to get a 240 GB 5400 RPM hard drive(free upgrade from 160 GB 5400 RPM), or a 240 GB 7200 RPM hard drive, which is 75 dollars more. I basicly only use a computer for playing games, using Word and Powerpoint, going on the Internet, and playing online games. Will my games run faster with a 7200 RPM hard drive, or will the excess heat from the 7200 RPM hard drive cause everything else to become slower? Note: I have a lot of games, so I need a big hard drive...
2007-12-11 10:12:26 · 8 answers · asked by ANFGoalie 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Just on the game loading speed but NOT on the game frame rates. It is the GPU architecture that makes a lot of difference in game speed.
2007-12-11 10:37:40 · answer #1 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Will the speed of your HDD makes a big difference? Yes and no. Yes if you'll be playing games with atleast 1GB minimum requirements. No if you'll just be playing Solitaire or flash games.
With games like World of Warcraft, Crysis, and other games with high minimum requirements...you need to go with what's faster. But these games rely mostly on your CPU, RAM, and GPU speed and capabilities than your HDD speed and capabilities.
A rule of thumb, when it comes to Hard Drives, 7200 RPM is the minimum. If the system they are selling don't come with this, don't buy it.
2007-12-11 10:26:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-02 22:46:23 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a quad core processor and load up with ram and a fast hard rive wont hurt either while your at it make sure to have a top notch video card.
P.S. seriously dont leave out the quad core processor.
My Brother in law just got a xps420 and It runs men of honor airborne like no other. It's not a laptop but the processor is unreal.
good luck with that.
2007-12-11 10:30:35 · answer #4 · answered by watty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally I wouldn't get a labtop for gaming but thats just me.
considering the prior is a smaller harddrive it takes a bit less time to get to the file if the partition is smaller.
But the 240gb is much faster so I would say it would be just as good or better, and since its free go for it.
And if your picky about it you can ask for windows on a separate partition from your games. A windows computer views a partition as a separate harddrive so you would have a small C:\ "drive" and some other letter quite possibly a D: or E: depending on how they do it just for games. But its the same harddrive.
2007-12-11 10:23:21 · answer #5 · answered by Arawak 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These days, no. Hard drive transfer rates have gotten to the point that the only applications that are bottlenecked by drive speed are ones that depend on huge, continuous streams of data like hi-def video editing. Very few games will need that sort of bandwidth.
2007-12-11 10:24:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's amazing how computer debates were 7 years ago. I miss the old days.
2015-01-04 12:56:13 · answer #7 · answered by Aaron 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get the 7200. BTW, if you are getting Vista, you can kiss your gaming goodbye.
2007-12-11 10:18:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋