RPM STUCK

[quote user="pumpkin TiSh"]

One of the things that the devs did get right in my opinion was scrapping the 'weapon strengths' bars at the selection screen that were in BC2. That way you get a mix of people using different guns for the situation rather than everybody on the server using
AKs of whatever has the highest power rating.

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Not really.

People now seem to pick weapons based on rate of fire or because it has less recoil.

The FAMAS and M249 were whored before the last patch because of this. Now that they've given some recoil to the FAMAS, nobody uses it. I've seen it a handful of times since returning to BF last weekend.

M16A3 - 800 rounds per minute

AEK-971 - 900 rpm

FAMAS - 1000 rpm

M4A1 - 800 rpm

M249 - 800 rpm

F2000 - 850 rpm

M416 - 750 rpm

M27 IAR - 750 rpm

G36C - 750 rpm

Those have been the most used weapons since launch. And you can see why. They're all bullet hoses.

Compare that to the less common weapons like the G3A3 (550 rpm), AK-74M (650 rpm), M60E4 (535 rpm - started cropping up more only because of the recent buff), AKS-74u (650 rpm), PKP (600 rpm), SCAR-H (600 rpm + has small clip), L85A2 (650 rpm).and you kind
of get a picture painted about general perferances which is basically "It has to shoot fast. If it's slow, it sucks".

Actually BD is ~3 times faster than DVD, and quieter than HD-DVD due to its lower spin-rate

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Key: Spin-Rate ID-OD (Inner to Outer Diameter)

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DVD at 1x: 10.5 Mbps (ID-OD ~1600 - 570 RPM)

Blu-Ray at 1x: 36 Mbps (ID-OD ~1957 - 810 RPM)

HD-DVD at 1x: 34.88 Mbps (ID-OD ~2620 - 1089 RPM)

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At 12x:

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DVD: 126 Mbps (ID-OD ~19,200 - 6840 RPM)

Blu-Ray: 432 Mbps (ID-OD ~23484 - 9720 RPM)

HD-DVD: 418.56 Mbps (ID-OD ~31440 - 13068 RPM)

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However, in terms of X360's DVD vs. the PS3's BD, the X360 wins because the PS3 only has a 2x BD drive, which is only capable of 72 Mbps (and I think it reads DL-BD at 1X). If it had a 4x drive, it would have beaten the X360 in terms of speed and noise.

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DVD at 12x: 126 Mbps (ID-OD ~19,200 - 6840 RPM)

BD at 4x: 144 Mbps ((ID-OD ~7828 - 3240 RPM)

I don't believe you will find 7200 RPM self-contained external drives.

It's easy enough to build your own. Buy a 7200 RPM drive and stick it in an enclosure. I put an older 320GB 7200 RPM drive into an enclosure. Console sees it just fine. Not using it for any games as I have a 500GB SSD in another enclosure.

Games I want to have the best speed I install on the internal drive 7200RPM and others I install on the external 5400 RPM drive. Most externals are 5400 RPM drives to keep the cost down.

Yep and the cheaper the better. One of the gaming websites did a comparison of the different types ( 5400 rpm, 7200 rpm and SSD) The additional cost of the faster drives wasn't worth the small performance increase you'd see.