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Old 09-18-2007, 03:53 PM
jrf23 Offline
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Cheers again mate. I was literally just reading up on SATA devices on the net so I managed to work that bit out about the hard drives!

Couple of things with the speed of the hard drive, I was reading somewhere that having a faster hard drive helped with the loading times in games, so if you move from one area to the next in a game, it takes less time to load? Right? But then, I was reading at work today (because we dead) that the number of platters in a hard drive affect the speed with which data is read and a slower rpm is not necessarily slower. Something about, being able to read two platters at 7200 is better than reading one platter at 10000 etc. It seemed to make sense to me, but that's not necessarily a good thing, as I'm new to all this!

And finally for now (I'm sure I'll find more things to ask you and anyone else if they actually read this!) is would DDR3 be a safe investment now instead of having to splash out in a few years time to get a new motherboard and everything then?
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