You know you are in trouble when...

eddyc · 1 Feb 2011 at 12:26

...your hard drive is so broken that it is bottlenecking your system to the point where prime95 can't fully load your cpu.

Time for a new hdd.

paradisiac · 1 Feb 2011 at 12:28

haha awesome

MuttsNutts · 1 Feb 2011 at 13:04

Bummer.... Grap ya data while you can... :-)

saintdefender · 1 Feb 2011 at 13:23

So often we put all this thought into a new processor, GFX card and ram and completely forget about one of the biggest bottlenecks of them all, the HDD!

Darkpilgrim · 1 Feb 2011 at 13:24

Get yourself a nice SSD

paradisiac · 1 Feb 2011 at 13:37

my hdd light very rarely flashes whilst gaming, so does that mean its not a bottleneck?

suj999 · 1 Feb 2011 at 13:51

the light doesn't mean anything other than its being used.

eddyc · 1 Feb 2011 at 14:37

To be fair it is just a piece of **** IDE drive that I pulled out of an old external that I had lost the power cable for. I really only wanted to check that the rest of the box was working before I spent the money on a new HDD for it.

I wasn't prepared for it to be that bad though. You should hear the noise it makes. Sounds like a tumble dryer with a handful of change in it

paradisiac · 1 Feb 2011 at 14:52

suj999 said:
the light doesn't mean anything other than its being used.

but, if the lights not on means its not being used, then it cant be bottlenecking anything as its clearly not doing a lot? surely?

eddyc · 1 Feb 2011 at 15:03

during gaming if the hdd is not being used then that means that you have enough RAM to ensure that the page file on the hdd is not having to be used.

The hdd will only slow things down when you have to load a new level or map or whatever.

suj999 · 1 Feb 2011 at 23:18

hard drive speed doesn't mean much during actual game play..

saintdefender · 1 Feb 2011 at 23:19

suj999 said:
hard drive speed doesn't mean much during actual game play..

Well it depends on what the game is doing. if its a game like the Sims 3 for e.g where it relies a lot on your hard-drive read speed then your gonna get bottlenecked. Mainly stutters due to the games not being able to read all the information fast enough.

Deleted member 77746 · 1 Feb 2011 at 23:19

the police comes to your door ..... and they take away your PC.

Thejay · 1 Feb 2011 at 23:58

eddyc said:
...your hard drive is so broken that it is bottlenecking your system to the point where prime95 can't fully load your cpu.

Time for a new hdd.

My parents computer did something similar an old IDE drive the computer had gotten stupidly slow even after I fully rebuilt it and added more memory and a better graphic card....

I ran HD Tach on it and got an amazing 4mb/sec

M1k3H · 2 Feb 2011 at 02:25

Thejay said:
My parents computer did something similar an old IDE drive the computer had gotten stupidly slow even after I fully rebuilt it and added more memory and a better graphic card....

I ran HD Tach on it and got an amazing 4mb/sec

not 4mb/sec :eek: