will upgrading my hard drive improve fps?

[SpeedZealot369]

I just bought a Toshiba laptop with a 200gb 5400rpm drive. it has a T7200cpu, 7900gs go, 1440x900 screen, it comes with vista but I can put xp on it. Oh and 2gb 677mhz ram.

I'm gonna be playing COD4, world in conflict, C&C3, half life 2. Should I upgrade the HD to a seagate 7200.2 160gb hard drive? I mean will it show a noticable difference in gaming?

Thanks

 

[Insomniator]

Load times should be faster but performance won't improve other than that. If you are using the page file it doesn't really matter if you have a 54 or 72

 

[fleflikr]

no

 

[SpeedZealot369]

page file?

 

[HOOfan 1]

Page File, Virtual Memory It is when Windows uses your harddrive to supplement your physical memory. Running too much page file on any speed of HDD would give very poor results.

 

[Mide]

nope

 

[IlllI]

no

 

[octopus41092]

All that it might affect would be your load times.

 

[postmortemIA]

load times will be seriously affected. they must be darn slow.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

no, a hard drive upgrade will NOT give u better FPS, how do people figure upgrading a HDD will give better gaming performance?

 

[Aberforth]

There are some games that constantly use HDD like Flight Simulator X so having a faster HDD will give you a smoother experience, but 32bit games cannot use more than 2 gb ram so anything extra would be paged so I have to say faster hdd does improve framerates but really depends on the type of game you are playing. Let's take Far Cry 2 for instance, it will load new levels/areas in the background while you are in the game so faster hdd may benefit from that.