i have 4gb of 1067 mhz ddr3 ram and a 2.53ghz intel dual core 2 duo processor and NVIDIA GeForce 9400M so i would have to guess that my hard drive is the bottelneck because it is only 5400rpm.

Your GPU is the bottleneck.

My computer is pretty much leveled out, but my temperatures are a little higher than ideal. So I guess it would be my cooling. But really that's just because I've overclocked everything.


At stock speed my CPU idles at 28C, GPU at 40C, and case at 1C; but where I'm at I've got 55C, 50C, 3C.

again, how does a gpu effect performance? its just graphics?

Mostly, yes. I remember my old ATI Rage from the late 90s had trouble rendering PNGs, let alone complex 3D scenes.

The average video card is infinitely more powerful than the average CPU.

wow. i can always see topics that buttsex posts in to learn new stuff!


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so the vid card is the bottleneck?

my gpu, since i have a 4850 and a athlon 64 processor. (well according to cj)

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the bottleneck of your computer may be different. a bottelneck, is like the weekest link a chain. your computer can only go as fast as the slowest thing(kind of) so it may be that you dont have enough ram, a good enough processor, or in the case of most computers that are really good, the hard drive. ssd boosts performance like nobodies business.




that still doesnt make sense to me. id better do a little research on graphics cards. i have never cared cause im not a gamer.
having a bad gpu in a good rig wouldnt slow down performance just graphical performance right?

Naw, Athlon 64 is the bottleneck.



Since you have an outdated CPU, but a high end GPU, your CPU is the bottleneck

but i still see how a GPU can be a bottleneck.
if we replace the metaphor of a bottle with tubes, wouldn't the ram, hard drive, processor, be one tube and graphics be a separate tube?

Nope. They would each be separate tubes.

is that not what i just said?

the underlying word, is each, meaning, not all those three beforehand are in one tube alone. (i think)

so you are denying the bottleneck theory. the theory stating that a computer is a like...



(the diagram doesnt make sense but ya know...)
lol@mspaint
it doesnt make sense but according to the botteleneck theory, the computer can only go as fast as thing thinnest point (in this case the mobo ) so if the gpu was the weakest link could it limit the use of ram and processing power? i think not.

What's your lowest score on the Windows Experience Index?

Joseph, you don't know what you're talking about.

5.9, my hard drive. 2x250 GB 7200 RPM drives, I don't like the way WEI scales hard drives.