Gaming Performance and Hard drive

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#1 sysypizza
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I have only 104 hard drive diskspace left and if i installed around 5 mores games totaling up to 12 gigs of space, will it affect my gaming performance?

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#2 ufopuller
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No each game will be independant, unless you run out of RAM (which willslow ya down)

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#3 Jiggly_Wiggly
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Virtual memory, but thats only if you use your ram completely. I would laways have about 4 gigs free.
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#4 Jack_Summersby
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I have only 104 hard drive diskspace left and if i installed around 5 mores games totaling up to 12 gigs of space, will it affect my gaming performance?

sysypizza

As always, depends on several variables (RAM, games played, etc.) So long as you have 4 or 5 GB free, I think you'll be okay.
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#5 sepheronX
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what does slow down games with a full Hard drive, is when the hard drive is starting to load the information (instead of ram, cause ram run out during gameplay) that trying to find the information, takea  while, so slowdowns in the game (not FPS wise, but more of simply, jittery issue) so I suggest defraging the Hard drive quite often.
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#6 brain20035
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it's not effectless, but then again  you won't feel any differences.
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#7 Annexx
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The other thing to think about with hard drives is their read time with games. The faster they are the faster your games will load. Hence why some people setup RAIDS(redundant array of inexpensive disks or redundant array of independent disks. Basically two or more HD's working together.), because they make load times faster combining the speed of multiple hard drives. Also. Do you really play all those games? I use to keep 13 + games on my PC and realized there was no reason too.
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