rhapsodyfan Posted April 2, 2005 CID Share Posted April 2, 2005 hi everyone i just noticed that my hard drive is a 5400 RPM!! whhats the diffrence between that and a 7200 RPM. do i need to upgrade it? also i use a celeron 2.9ghz which the computer is only 2 months old and my wife uses a AMD athalon at work and is about 5 months old both are HP computers, and she swears mine is faster than hers. we both have 512mb of memory but her's is a 2.0ghz. i always thought AMD were faster than any Celeron. any ideas to help me understand all of this?? thank you so much everyone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice Posted April 2, 2005 CID Share Posted April 2, 2005 Uh... The difference is... 7200RPM is faster than 5400RPM. You don't have to upgrade it if you don't notice any sluggishness. And AMD's are better for gaming, despite the lower clockspeed. They use a rating system, whereas Intel uses the actual clockspeed to name the CPUs. For example, my 3500+ Athlon 64 is about on par with a 3.5GHZ INtel, even though it crushes it in gaming and costs about half the price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepnklown Posted April 3, 2005 CID Share Posted April 3, 2005 7200RPM would speed up the accessing of that hard drive. I wouldn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice Posted April 3, 2005 CID Share Posted April 3, 2005 If it's 5 months older than his, I doubt it's an old AMD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepnklown Posted April 3, 2005 CID Share Posted April 3, 2005 I didn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhapsodyfan Posted April 3, 2005 Author CID Share Posted April 3, 2005 just wanted to see if it was really necessery to upgrade if i wont see to much improvement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepnklown Posted April 3, 2005 CID Share Posted April 3, 2005 What apps do you run? Do you game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhapsodyfan Posted April 3, 2005 Author CID Share Posted April 3, 2005 i just use the computer for music dvd watching Nero 6 Ultra Power DVD 6 rip my cd collection ect... no gaming thats about it and some work related stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepnklown Posted April 3, 2005 CID Share Posted April 3, 2005 5400RPM should be fine then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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