Will a faster cpu improve loading times?

[Squints]

I just got a Radeon 9500pro 128mb and I'm finally able to run games like ut2k3, and nolf2 at the highest settings. BUT it takes a lot longer to load the levels because of the bigger textures and such, i presume. It will continue loading when the game starts, but after a little while i wont get anymore loading pauses (i guess since everything is loaded then). I have a 1ghz athlon and am going to buy a 2000+ Athlon xp soon and was wondering if my loading times will improve. Or will I only see improvement if I get a new Harddrive or more memory? I have a 5400rpm Maxtor HHD and 256MB DDR pc2100 mem.

 

[papasmurf]

the memory and hdd will probably effect your loading times more than the cpu but I would expect to recieve noticable differences in loading times with the xp2000, ahhh 1ghz...those were the days

smurf A- I saw you leave with smurfette
smurf B- oh man as soon as we got out of the bar she started smurfing me
smurf A- shut the smurf up
smurf A- right in the smurfing pariking lot?

 

[Civilized]

Better read write performance of the hard drives will give you better load times...and in instances cpu will matter (i.e. look at hyperthreading with the p4....)...for optimum load times running a raid 0 config will give you really nice read/write speads...