(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); i was just wondering if the hard drive off my old ps3 would work in a pc has a replacement hard drive?

It only has a limited impact in the sense that if his computer suddenly got slower that's most likely not the cause.

And yeah, the PS3 hard drive is tremendously slow. Look at some benchmarks.

I would beg to differ. HDD's degrade over time, while its possible an HDD could cause an overnight performance drop, if it was persistent through refortmatting then it is almost definetley HDD related.

I've tested my theory aswell, I have a spare 650GB HDD in my desktop that is in bad health but functional.
My computer specs are
i7 @ 4.0 GhZ
16GB Ram
GTX 680

etc, and a fresh install of windows 7 on the bad HDD left me with a horridly slow result as expected. While on a good shape 1TB HDD it worked flawlessly.

HDD's play a massive part in computer speed but they are not power houses of computers so I believe they have been over looked.

That's logically inconsistent. A reformatting wouldn't fix any other piece of hardware that was broken. Whilst the HDD could be the issue, I'm just saying that it's unlikely.

I didn't say it could. I'm simply stating that the OP said he reformatted and it still was still slow. If his computer worked fine previously, hardware failures in CPU, or RAM, would be catasthrophic where HDD failures could come with impacts such as slow down.

Why would you want to do this at all to start off with?

well I've put in the ps3 hard drive now, its a bit better but still slow at times, like playing games on the internet really slows it down. the specs are something like 3 ghz processor and half a gig of ram

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feel free to buy me one then

Yeah your computer is dated, I had one like that 10 years ago. (It wouldn't happen to be gateway would it?)
Now-a-days half a gig of ram wont even cut it for chrome.

gateway?

Nothing, my old computer that had literally the same specs was made by gateway so I was thinking maybe you had the same thing.