The most important component for gaming is actually the graphics card, of course. But of those two, it depends on the differences in the two. Going from a 100GB 5400RPM drive to a 100GB 7200RPM drive at a cost of $250+ (on average) is not going to be as cost effective as upgrading from say the Celeron-M 1.3GHz to the Pentium-M 1.86GHz for $300.
On that particular model (the Compaq R4000), however, the hard drives only go up to 5400RPM, and it's only about $25 difference between the two speeds, so get the faster one, no doubt. But the Athlon 64 4000+ will be a far superioir upgrade, though it's expensive ($275). You'll want at least the 1024MB RAM (fairly reasonable at $150), too.
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Dell Inspiron 9300(?): Intel Pentium-M 1.86GHz Sonoma, 1.25GB DDR533 RAM, GeForce Go6800
Gateway 7422GX: AMD Athlon 64 3400+, 1024MB DDR RAM, 64MB Mobility RADEON 9600 (May be going to my parents.)
AVERATEC AV3270-EH1: AMD Mobile Sempron 2800+, 512MB DRR RAM, 64MB (shared) S3G Unichrome
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