Does a bigger hard drive mean faster respawn times?

[DrunkenZombiee]

2GB Patriot Signature (1x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Single Channel Module
500W OCZ StealthXStream 2 Power Supply
AMD Phenom II X2 Dual Core 545 3.00GHz (Socket AM3) Processor - Retail
320GB Hitachi HDT725032VLA360 3.5" SATA II Hard Drive
Arianet 2GB (1x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Single Channel Module
ASRock M3A785GMH/128M AMD 785 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Micro-ATX Motherboard

Cheers for the update.

HDD is 7200 RPM with a medium amount of cache and normal seek speed. Might be worth giving it a fair few passes of defrag if you are worried about loading speeds. How full is it?

Everything else seems fine apart from the mix and match RAM manufacturers. But if it works then great!

All normal for the PC's ERA with the single channel memory etc.

Most useful upgrade would be an SSD if you are still worried about your loading times.

DZ.

[ArithonUK]

Because you don't have SATA3, without going the SSD route, you won't get much faster disks, so if you want faster response times, switch to Win7 x64 and bulk up your RAM with whatever the MOBO will take. This will allow for more disk-caching for data reading and speed up load times a bit.

The other reason to consider this, is that there will be x64 version of BF3.... Battlefield 3 won’t be supporting DirecX 9, it won’t run on Windows XP and DICE's recommended spec. is for Win 7 x64 OS, so you may want to look into the upgrade.

[Tutonic]

The best way to speed up load times?

RAID 0. Stripe a pair of 10k rpm Raptors and you're flying.

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[DrunkenZombiee]

The best way to speed up load times?

RAID 0. Stripe a pair of 10k rpm Raptors and you're flying.

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A pair of 10k raptors would cost more than an SSD =). If your really hardcore you could get a SAN with some of the new SCSI drives. Got a few grand lying around?

[TheDvEight]

i have no idea what ssd is im on win 7 x32 at the moment im not worried about my load times tbh just ask out of courisity but eventually i want to upgrade my ram, hard drive and proberly motherboard

[Tutonic]

SSD: Solid state drive.

Instead of having having magnetic, spinning platters inside an SSD uses flash memory chips to store data.

Advantages: No moving parts so on paper they're less prone to failure. They're also much, much faster than a traditional hard drive (especially when reading data, eg loading a BC2 map or booting Windows).

Disadvantage: Blummin expensive compared to a regular hard drive. Maximum capacity is (currently) much lower.

As prices go down and more people switch to SSD I'm sure they'll eventually take over, but at the minute they're a bit of a luxury.  

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[DrunkenZombiee]

Alot of people are currently raving about Hybrid drives which are the best of both worlds.

A normal HDD is augmented with a small amount of flash memory which is used to store the most used and most vital data (normally your OS etc). In effect you have the speed of an SSD for the commonly most used files and the capacity of a magnetic platter HDD.

I have a friend who about a 500 gig hybrid for £50 and I have to say that his OS boots almost as quickly as my SSD. I was impressed as the price tag was 4 times less than a 120 gig SSD. Saying that when we started to edit video on his PC it began to crawl again as the platters were once again used rather than the Flash memory.

Its still definitely worth it though, need to do some investigation into how the algorithm for what files are on the flash memory at any one time works to optimise for gaming.

DZ

[T-Bag]

I bought a hybrid drive for my new PC. It came with an intermittent fault so I had to install on a standard harddrive and get a refund. I'm waiting for full SSD before I go through the effort of reinstalling windows and my programs to a new drive. Just waiting for the £/GB to be more sensible vs traditional storage. I'm looking reasonable 128GB for around £128 to get the price:performance up.