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Sata vs. IDE

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Name: Fishystix
Date: July 2, 2004 at 08:55:12 Pacific
OS: Windows XP Home
CPU/Ram: P4 2.8C/1024MB DDR400
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I'm running out of room on my current hardrive and I'm thinking of getting a SATA drive. Are the differences between SATA and IDE enough to get a SATA drive? And does it improve frames at all during gaming or does a SATA drive only improve loading and access times?


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Name: miketech18
Date: July 2, 2004 at 13:41:24 Pacific
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SATA will load your games faster. If the game consumes all your RAM and needs to fetch data from your hard disk that will speed up too.

I dont think your frame rates will be affected at all. Leave that up to your cpu and video card.


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Name: Mr. Chan
Date: July 6, 2004 at 14:08:31 Pacific
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Serial ATA over Parallel for airflow in some situations can be enough to determine what to get...

Either way, Rounded IDE cables are beautiful with UV smilies painted on them.

no need, read up


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