Hi all. I currently have a SATA 150 drive installed in my motherboard. My mobo is SATA 300 compatible and I was wondering if upgrading to a SATA 300 HD would bolster improved gaming performance and if so, what aspects would be improved? Considering it's HD's we're talking, I would assume only the load times would get a boost and not much else. Anyone got any experience with this?

Nothing will change as neither the 150 or 300 drives can reach their theoretical speed. Both drives will perform about the same due to the limitations of the drive itself. You may see an increase in speed when the data is coming from cache memory but that will be it.

Yeah, at the moment, I hardly see any difference at all between SATA 150 and SATA 300. The problem is that though the 300 is potentially faster, the rest of the system hasn't sped up to accommodate the increased speed. Its one of those places where the whole PC design needs to be changed. In a sense, its like getting a car with a high performance engine that will go 150 MPH or faster, but then holding it back with a 65 MPH speed limit. Either there is no reason for buying the engine, or the speed limit needs to be raised.

Thanks for the help. I figured that would be the answer. Sort of like how all the PC hardware is 64 bit now, but software is still catching up.