whats your bottelneck? Options

[Maccabee]

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.

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

[heyo-captain-jac...]

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

Naw, Athlon 64 is the bottleneck.

A bottleneck is a phenomenon where the performance or capacity of an entire system is limited by a single or limited number of components or resources. The term bottleneck is taken from the 'assets are water' metaphor. As water is poured out of a bottle, the rate of outflow is limited by the width of the conduit of exit - that is, bottleneck. Increase the width of the bottleneck, and you can increase the rate of which the water flows out. Pertaining to a business, a firm will address the 'bottleneck' that is limiting production.

Since you have an outdated CPU, but a high end GPU, your CPU is the bottleneck

[Maccabee]

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Since you have an outdated CPU, but a high end GPU, your CPU is the bottleneck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