NTFS is better with space, and it'* more secure. Other then that i dunno..

We all should be prepared for something new soon anyway.

WinFS

It'* just like NTFS with some tweaks.

Or just go with a Linux partition.

Actually WinFS is pretty much NTFS that'* one big SQL conglomeration. Better for searching i guess.

Well, the HDD is a 7200RPM ATA/100 Maxtor. If it'* the general opinion that I should leave it FAT32 for gaming, (I install all my games on that drive) I will. But, I just got a new primary drive, 7200RPM ATA/133 Maxtor. Would that one be better in FAT32 for gaming?

I'll second that. There is a whole world of more things going on in that file system than FAT32. Not only does it perform checks, but a registry value and temp is written for each occurrence, as well as archive bits set in memory, and then flushed when you shut down. It'* crazy.

Is it just me, or does anyone else not notice a difference. My games run perfectly normal. I play UT2k3 and Rainbow 6 and stuff. It runs great.

depends on the speed of your equipment also, but the few fractions of a second of lag in a game should go unnoticed

Exactly. 10 FPS lower makes no difference to me.

10fps is my max anyways I was cheep and only got onboard 8meg graphics plays civ3 just fine all I care still wanna know why the "gamers" use winxp of any nt based os for games in first place

The ata 100/133 thing doesn't mean much. They're still slow because of the channel they run off of. They all pretty much run the same, unless in a raid. Now the new 300mb/sec Sata drives...