Is this HDD good for games?

[Mentor]

I imagine gaming performance would be uneffected, only thing hdd speed's likely to effect is the time it takes a game to install or start up. Once running, most the active stuff will be in ram anyway, and windows does a good job of pageing, so unless you have a very limited amount of ram, your hdd speed should be more aless unnoticable however slow "/

[Pyroka]

Alex, its the fact that my CPU, RAM & GFX are so epicly epicly fast that I'm worried my hard drive wont take full advantage of the write speeds. I thought it would because it'd be a bit slower in terms of transferring stuff into the RAM and what have you... idk, I might be speaking out my arse now.

[N!ck]

Alex, its the fact that my CPU, RAM & GFX are so epicly epicly fast that I'm worried my hard drive wont take full advantage of the write speeds. I thought it would because it'd be a bit slower in terms of transferring stuff into the RAM and what have you... idk, I might be speaking out my arse now.

It's just initial loadng times. Once whatever has loaded it has very little to do with the hard drive, just reading and writing the odd small file every so often.

[Flisker]

The major bottleneck in most PC's is the Hard Drive (excluding those with SSD's) as they cannot do get the data and chuck it out to the CPU quick enough.

Yeah I highly recommend Western Digital hard drives