For those interested in finding out if the upcoming New Xbox Experience game install feature will be worth the time and effort Eurogamer has you covered. They pit some of the most popular Xbox 360 games loading speed on disc and compared those speeds to HDD install loads. They even compared the 20GB hard drive to the 120GB hard drive and the 20GB drive. It would have been nice to see console temperature comparisons. I am interested in seeing how hot the console gets inside when played from disc compared to temperatures when played on an HDD install.
In any case the Orange box seemed to gain the biggest performance boost of all tested with load times almost twice as fast from the HDD install. Oddly enough Halo 3 took longer to load from the install than from disc.
Check out the comparison here. These are the games that were tested:
Gears of War 2
Halo 3
Orange Box
Call of Duty 4
Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise
Grand Theft Auto IV
Fable II
Mass Effect
BioShock
Project Gotham Racing 4
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