Do hard drives increase gaming performance?

Trenbolone · May 6, 2013

I play ArmA 2 and ArmA 3 and my friend gets better performance then me when we have the same specs except he has a 7200rpm hard drive while I have some old one from a 2006 computer.

Specs:
i5 3570k
GTX 460 1GB
Asus H61
4GB RAM 1333 mhz

ksham · May 6, 2013

Short answer: no.

Long answer: a faster hard disk drive will only increase loading times. But even the fastest hard disk drive (HDD) cannot contend with a solid-state drive (SSD). A SSD can load up your game many times faster, but it will otherwise have no impact on your gaming experience. Unless you run out of RAM, which can be the case, data will be swapped with the HDD, then you'll get a much slower performance. A HDD is much slower than RAM. Even a SSD is slower than RAM.

Trenbolone · May 6, 2013

So if I get better ram, 8GB 1600mhz will it increase my performance?

ksham · May 6, 2013

8GB of RAM would help. You can also upgrade your GPU. Your motherboard is also bottlenecking your CPU though since you went to buy an unlocked K-series CPU and your motherboard is preventing you from overclocking it.

Trenbolone · May 6, 2013

any suggestions for a good cheap mobo?

swifty_morgan · May 6, 2013

there has to be more differences somewhere other than HD's. your 460 sucks for a game like Arma. perhaps you need to make adjustments to your in game settings.

Randy Appo · May 6, 2013

Definitely get a better video card that alone will make your gaming way better

ksham · May 6, 2013

Usually good and cheap don't go together. If you're not going to OC, get a H77. If you are, get a P/Z77.

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