Depends on the game. It will help for load time, but for some games, they dont need much fromt he drive after the initial load (most of my games, for example, rarely read from the drive, and so I wouldn't see an improvement). Do you knotice your games reading from the drive alot?
i don't know about the improvements but i think there's not much improvements in the upgrade if it's solely for bettering your gaming experience.. my guess is that hard disks reviews usually have benchmarking graphs shown, and they rarely if ever, show 3dmark benchmark scores.. so my guess is that the reviewers feel that the hard disk does not affect gaming so they don't benchmark the hard disks for that.. i don't know just my guess..
If you would like to see a performance increase in most games your best bet is to upgrade your RAM rather than your HDD. If you have enough RAM most games will load completely into RAM and will never access the HDD during gameplay. If your game is accessing your HDD constantly then your system probably doesn't have enough RAM and is using your HDD as virtual RAM.
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If you would like to see a performance increase in most games your best bet is to upgrade your RAM rather than your HDD. If you have enough RAM most games will load completely into RAM and will never access the HDD during gameplay. If your game is accessing your HDD constantly then your system probably doesn't have enough RAM and is using your HDD as virtual RAM.