Sitting idle while your new PS3 game installs is painful, but since it's all in the interest of reducing subsequent load times it's worth the wait, right? Not for the impatient sods at ExtremeTech ...

When your PlayStation 3 is brimming with downloadable games, massive game saves, music, and HD video content, we showed you that you could easily swap out your existing hard drive with a new one ...

The standard HDD that comes with your PS3 is 5400 rpm -- not bad, but not the best on the market. We've stumbled across a write-up detailing the addition of a different hard drive, running at 7200 ...

Now, the only question remains is if the patch will bring the PS3 version's frame rate up to the same level as the 360's version, or if it'll match the PS2 originals.

Unsurprisingly, the Samsung SSD outperformed the other two drives in every test with performance gains anywhere from six seconds (console boot up) to 20 seconds to load a pre-installed game.