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.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

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.

[Maccabee]

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?

[heyo-captain-jac...]

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.

[Jghelfi]

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?

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

[Maccabee]

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?

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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.

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

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?

[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?

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Nope. They would each be separate tubes.

[Maccabee]

is that not what i just said?

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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)

[Maccabee]

[heyo-captain-jac...]

[Maccabee]

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

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(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.

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

[heyo-captain-jac...]

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

[heyo-captain-jac...]

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

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

[Maccabee]