The speed of a hard drive is determined by data transfer rate. So the faster the transfer rate the lesser the stress on you system. Your CPU speed is low to work in 3d, you OS is a possible limitation, as well. Your res should be ok with a 64mb vid card. You would probably get better choices with a larger screen and or a different OS. As far as the defrag. problem, you know your system better than I do. If your swap file is spread out throuugh out the drive, with a slow drive, you cannot expect efficiency. Try defragging for now. You should also stress test your system using a bench mark utility like Sandra or anything you can find as a free download on cnet. No good news, sorry. Q

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