Is the HDD/Hard drive responsible for a stable FPS

[Ayzou]

Hey I was just wondering if the HDD/Hard drive is really the cause of making fps stable because when i play games 60fps causes like stuttering or having fps drop. it bothers me so much from 60 down to 10-20 and then back again to 60. this occurs repeatedly in almost all games I play. Hope to get an answer. Thanks in advance. )

oh and the specs of my hard drive is 8mb cache and 5400 rpm. )

 

[jonespwns]

HD can bottle neck, but i wouldnt think it would be that much of a nuesance. What are the rest of your specs on the computer?

 

[Ayzou]

HD can bottle neck, but i wouldnt think it would be that much of a nuesance. What are the rest of your specs on the computer?

intel core i5 2nd gen
Nvdia GT525M - 1gb
8gb of ram
500gb HDD 8mb cache with 5400rpm

 

[smangione]

Well most of your problems are going to be from the graphics card not the hard drive. But the hard drive can be become a bottleneck but it would have to be very very very old for you to see a difference in it. Only time you would really see it be effective would be in loading times. The pieces that would effect fps is a central proccessing unit (cpu), and a graphics card (gpu), and random access memory (RAM) that all effect fps in games

 

[Ayzou]

Well most of your problems are going to be from the graphics card not the hard drive. But the hard drive can be become a bottleneck but it would have to be very very very old for you to see a difference in it. Only time you would really see it be effective would be in loading times. The pieces that would effect fps is a central proccessing unit (cpu), and a graphics card (gpu), and random access memory (RAM) that all effect fps in games

so does that mean my CPU or GPU sucks?

 

[smangione]

Your gpus is pretty low most people don't even try to use a computer with a igpu, an igpu is a graphics card built into your cpu so. Yes I'd have to say your graphics card "sucks" as you put it

Update Correction some people do not most that would be wrong

 

[Undying89]

HDD dosnt have anything to do with framerate. Low fps are coming from bad GPU (like yours 525m). SSD or 7200rpm(64mb) drivers can help with loading times though.

 

[Ayzou]

Is it really that bad? actually it is a laptop. just forgot to mention it. haha! oh well.

but what about making the FPS stable? is it still on the GPU?

 

[smangione]

Yes The gpu is the bottleneck. All you can really do is lower the graphics on the games. As to if it sucks comparing it to a discrete desktop gpu is like comparing a mouse to a horse. As I can tell that computer is at lest 4 years old

 

[Ayzou]

dang.. oh well... Thanks for all your help. really much appreciated. and lastly, yes I think this is 4 years old because I bought this laptop 2nd hand.