Does HDD speed matter?

[Ginsu543]

Does the speed of the HDD (seek time, cache size, ATA100/133, spin speed, fragmentation, size of the drive) affect scores on 3DMark2001SE? Or is it really a matter of CPU, FSB, videocard, and memory?

[zaltec]

I do not believe that HDD matters unless you are accessing the swapfile, which you shouldn't be in 3dMark2001SE<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

[Colin]

Ginsu543 zaltec is right HDD is not access while the benchmark is running so it shouldn't matter...

[Ginsu543]

Cool! Thanks! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

[PCgeek]

Yeah I think that's cool too... My HDD is a POS<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0">