Hard Drive vs. CPU

[waddlawatcha]

If I am on a budget which upgrade is going to affect the noticeable speed of my computer moving from a 7200rpm to a 10,000 rpm hard drive or from a single to a dual core intel processor?

I have heard some people feel the bottle neck is at the hard drive, thus the hard drive being the most important to upgrade and keep on the newest technology.

:confused:

[The Wise Monkey]

CPU will make more of a difference by far. :)

10k rpm drives are good, but you will only notice a slight difference. You would see a much bigger improvement if you went for a 15k rpm drive, or just had another 7200rpm drive in RAID 0.