>> data transfer performance in other critical areas (such as transferring
>> data from the main RAM to the GPU, which happens all the time).
>
> An excellent point I hadn't considered. Honestly, I haven't really
> thought about this stuff since the generations of machines where RAM is
> faster than CPUs. :-)

My graphics card has just under 1GB of on-board RAM. I would expect that 
once all the textures and meshes and so forth have been uploaded over 
the AGP bus (or PCI-X or whatever you're using today), the GPU probably 
requires minimal bandwidth from main memory. Certainly not enough that 
the piffling transfer rate of the disk drive would affect it in the 
slightest.

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