SATA Drive for my new gaming rig - should I?

[StompAWOT]

Attached are the specs for my new rig:

3800+ A64X2
EVGA NF4 SLI EDI Mobo
EVGA GF 7800GT Video Card
2GB Corsair XMS DDR Ram
Audigy 2ZS Platinum Soundcard
DVD / DVD Burner Drives

300GB Seagate HD.

The HD is a UATA drive (Fry's special for about $80 A/R if I ever send in the rebates). I'm building this primarily for gaming, plus some photoshop usage. The Seagate is brand new. The question is, will I see a significant benefit if I go to a SATA drive for my gaming/photoshop applications? As long as I've spend some decent coin on this system, should I complete it w/ that SATA drive?

TIA

 

[wanderer27]

UATA - isn't that a USB ATA ?

I believe a SATA will be faster than that.

And yes, if you have Disk accessing games, you'll notice some increased performance with a SATA drive.

 

[StompAWOT]

Nope - not USB. It's Ultra 100 something or other (as you can see - I'm quite in the know...). Sorry for the confusion.

 

[wanderer27]

Looked at the Fry Site - that looks to be an IDE drive, not a SATA.

Also:

http://www.seagate.com/products/interface/index.html

The SATA will be faster - got my 250GB for about $100, you can get a 300GB version for around $120-130. It also has a 16Mb Cache vs the 8Mb on the Drive you mentioned.