Will swapping Seagate 40 GB 5400rpm (8.9ms) with a

[Uone]

...IBM 40 GB 7200rpm (8.5ms) improve gaming performance, taking the cost of the swap into consideration? Minute improvement or considerable improvement in gaming? OS is Win XP Home.

 

[Cowboy X]

The improvement could be very significant in games which pull alot of stuff from the drive . It will speed up load times and also your basic 2d and office performance as well .

 

[Uone]

So the majority of improvements would come in the form of load times...thanks for the help.