I just purchased a new $53 WD Blue 5400 rpm hard drive and I was wondering if 5400rpms are prohibitively slow for gaming? I have a 240gb SSD for booting and some of my favorite games. I'm new to building a pc, so is it viable to move whatever games I play most to my SSD anyways? Overall, I'm asking if you would recommend taking the hdd back and looking for a 7200 deal. Thanks
Are 5400rpm HDDs still okay for gaming?
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Well, a 7200rpm HDD is usually the most reccommended HDD and it is quite a bit faster than a 5400rpm. Now, thats not to say that a 54k rpm HDD will make games have huge drops in performance, but its usually better for more modern AAA. If you cant be bothered to go through selling your HDD and getting a new one, I reccommend finding a bit of space to hold your Higher end games on the SSD and everything else on HDD. If you can however, go for it 
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Deus Vu1t
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Well, a 7200rpm HDD is usually the most reccommended HDD and it is quite a bit faster than a 5400rpm. Now, thats not to say that a 54k rpm HDD will make games have huge drops in performance, but its usually better for more modern AAA. If you cant be bothered to go through selling your HDD and getting a new one, I reccommend finding a bit of space to hold your Higher end games on the SSD and everything else on HDD. If you can however, go for it .
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James Mason
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5400RPM HDDs actually can be too slow for games sometimes, and can cause stuttering from not being able to load content fast enough.
Deus Vu1t
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What? If your HDD isnt fast enough, it wont cause microstuttering. At the most, it will load different scenes slower or take slighlty longer to render a certain scenario, but fps and performance will be nearly unaffected. It will cause stuttering however, if you dont have enough RAM.
Refer to this video for comparison :
[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rAJ6j1Zqbs"][/video]
(Yes I know its 5900rpm vs 7200rpm but many people in the comments are happy with 5400 and can barely see a difference)
James Mason
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Yeah, and I've had experiences where people were being held back by their 5400rpm drives and it caused game performance issues.
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