Hey guys, just wanted a quick opinion. I plan on doing both of these upgrades, but at this time I only have money for one of them.
Which is going to make the biggest difference for gaming? Is the hard drive going to significantly decrease battery life? Anything else i should know?
Running Vista 64 Ultimate, all hardware stock.
Thanks!
Edited: Added a question :>)
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Crimsonman Ex NBR member :cry:
No, the harddrive wont take away battery life assuming its already 7200rpms. essentially, neither is a big difference, if you are coming from 5400rpms to 7200, get that, but if not get 4 gigs. but 4 gigs of ram is like beating a dead horse. if you use a lot of harddrive space also, get the 200 harddrvie
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Yeah the stock HDD is 5,400rpm 160gb. I do a lot of MMO gaming which are notorious for eating up all your RAM, and Vista 64 doesn't help either so I'm sooner or later going to do both. Loading times would benefit from a faster HDD, but in-game would benefit from more ram (less HDD swapping).
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Crimsonman Ex NBR member :cry:
well, save up and get them both at the same time, easier decision
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Definately get 4GB RAM first, you'll be surprised by a perfomance increase and later upgrade your HDD.
Just my 2cents.
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