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Old 01-13-10, 05:29 PM   #11
Webster
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Originally Posted by peabody View Post
Also another thing that can affect loading is your hard drives. RPM, SATA, IDE, and how full they are.


Peabody

i can confirm this, i never thought having half of a 320gb hard drive full mattered (i had 190gb of data) but switching to a 500gb hard drive with the exact same cache level cut down on loading times by a good 30%

today they have 32mb cache hard drives for very reasonable prices and that can help you a lot, a 500gb @ 32mb cache sata 3.0 goes for $80

a 4gb set of (2x2gb) ram your computer will help you a lot too if your board will support it, if not then get a 2gb set of (2x1gb) ram

Last edited by Webster; 01-14-10 at 02:49 AM.
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