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will a 10,000 rpm drive really improve gaming performance?

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it seems that most people say that it barely improves gaming performance and drives like the velociraptor arent really worth the extra money. any ideas?
 
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nah, if 10000 rpm drives improved game performance, then SSDs would be king in gaming performance
 
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It will help load a game faster, and in certain games like Oblivion for example, textures will load faster in points where the game needs to access the HDD to get the textures.
 

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It will help load a game faster, and in certain games like Oblivion for example, textures will load faster in points where the game needs to access the HDD to get the textures.

+1 it loads a bit faster thus making the games run more free flow sometimes you get stutters because of slow HDD`s accessing textures on the gameplay:rockout:
 

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or you can raid 0 a couple cheap drives and be able to load anything faster than a single raptor can. the biggest benefit of 10krpm is lower seek time, which an SSD completely destroys any raptor at.

so ya, imo a raptor is a waste of money.
 

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i agree with deparent76. get 24 x 7200.12 500gb and raid them
 
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i agree with deparent76. get 24 x 7200.12 500gb and raid them

rofl, I think raptors are great there price isnt, if you can pick some up for the right price why not? your never going to get a faster drive for retail use then 10k Raptor/Velcio's IF YOU REALLY wanna see performance improvements in games 2-4 intel X25m G2's in RAID 0 /w a good RAID card will wipe the floor with anything.
 
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The only time I ever notice an advantage is when playing a multiplayer FPS online like COD4. When the map changes it loads abit faster and I get in afew seconds before the others. Its nice to get to an important part of a map afew seconds before anyone else.

Other then that I use raptors because I know they are reliable. I never had any fail and I still have a pair of 36GB that work perfect.
 
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10,000rpm drives arent worth the price based on price/performance ratio

its about £120 just for a 150GB, my steam folder is like 200gb alone :laugh: although i didnt laugh when i had to redownload it all last year :eek:

However i make use of this feature for free



Which makes better use of the hdd's cache,
 

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no, faster drives dont do crap to enhance 'game performance' aka FPS.

They can speed up the loading time a little, but any modern HDD (320GB+) which has been defragmented will load quite fast too.

I sold my raptorX 150 after i noticed no difference in games, only in how loud my PC was.
 

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I'd much rather get a SSD instead. The 10000 rpm's just isn't worth it anymore imo.
 

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I'd much rather get a SSD instead. The 10000 rpm's just isn't worth it anymore imo.

i agree with this.


one common mistake people make too, is one large drive for everything. mechanical drives can only do one thing at a time, and if you have windows, games, antivirus, downloads etc all on the one drive, things do go to crap.

Use one HDD for windows (and a second partition on it for downloads/media) and a seperate physical drive for your games (that you defragment regularly) and you'll find your games load faster anyway.
 
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I just swapped out a RaptorX for a seagate barricuda 7200.12 and I'm not noticing a difference except that the 7200.12 is alot quieter.
 
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