The Gaming PC Building/Upgrade Thread

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Epoch said:

Most programs you wouldnt even notice a difference after OC'ing unless you are running some pretty CPU heavy shit.  For most programs the speed limiting factor is how fast the cpu can grab data from the hard drive, which you can't do much about short of buying an expensive SSD.

I agree with the first statement in this quote, but the second one is quite a stretch...

While hard drive performance is important for booting and program loading times, it's definitely not the limiting factor for most programs. For program loading times, it doesn't even matter as much as it used to, higher RAM sizes allow the OS to cache a lot of stuff into memory...

Hard drive performance might be the limiting factor when dealing with huge files, for example, video editing. Certainly not for games (GPU is usually the limit), productivity software (the user is usally the limit) or Web browsing (Internet connection is usually the limit) which is what most people spend time doing.