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Do I need a bigger hard drive for games on old PC
ScottB3333
Trying to convert a Dell Dimension DM061 to light gaming for grandkids' friends. It's got an Intel 3.0 gb chip, Nvidia 9600GT card, 3 gb of DDR2 memory. HD is 160 GB, It's running XP right now but I'm considering putting in a 500 GB hard drive with Linux (cause I'm cheap and I know the kids can play Minecraft on it fine). What I don't know is if adding a bigger hard drive to this system will in any way speed up play on games. I also figure the 3 gigs of memory is enough, though I could be wrong. Any insights?
Thanks,
S Betts
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S Betts
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ScottB3333 said:Trying to convert a Dell Dimension DM061 to light gaming for grandkids' friends. It's got an Intel 3.0 gb chip, Nvidia 9600GT card, 3 gb of DDR2 memory. HD is 160 GB, It's running XP right now but I'm considering putting in a 500 GB hard drive with Linux (cause I'm cheap and I know the kids can play Minecraft on it fine). What I don't know is if adding a bigger hard drive to this system will in any way speed up play on games. I also figure the 3 gigs of memory is enough, though I could be wrong. Any insights?
Thanks,
S Betts
Probably a old drive with slower RPMS, I suggest getting a 500gb HDD with 64mb cache, that would speed up the system. Since it's light gaming everything else is fine. -
Newbbuilder11 said:ScottB3333 said:Trying to convert a Dell Dimension DM061 to light gaming for grandkids' friends. It's got an Intel 3.0 gb chip, Nvidia 9600GT card, 3 gb of DDR2 memory. HD is 160 GB, It's running XP right now but I'm considering putting in a 500 GB hard drive with Linux (cause I'm cheap and I know the kids can play Minecraft on it fine). What I don't know is if adding a bigger hard drive to this system will in any way speed up play on games. I also figure the 3 gigs of memory is enough, though I could be wrong. Any insights?
Thanks,
S Betts
Probably a old drive with slower RPMS, I suggest getting a 500gb HDD with 64mb cache, that would speed up the system. Since it's light gaming everything else is fine. - Would installing an OS on a smaller old hard drive while using a bigger new hard drive for storage improve performance?
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ScottB3333 said:Thanks. Is there a significant speed difference between an HDD with 16 mb cache and one with 64?
More cache equals faster drives. And I forgot to mention you need to get a 7200 RPM 500 GB.
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd5003azex
This is a 500 gb 7200 rpm 64 mb cache HDD.
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