What Does The Term 'Bottle Neck' Mean?

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A good example of this is when you are running a Pentium G3258 CPU at stock speed and a GTX 980 Ti. The CPU reaches 100% usage before the video card does, no matter what video settings. The G3258 is then holding back the GTX 980 Ti and preventing it from performing at its full potential. You can resolve the bottleneck issue by upgrading the CPU to an i7-4790k.

Wolfshadw

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It means where one part of a PC (usually the processor) is significantly slow enough to hinder the performance of another component (usually the graphics card).

A low-end processor simply cannot process commands fast enough to allow a graphics card to be utilized at it's full potential.

-Wolf sends
 
A good example of this is when you are running a Pentium G3258 CPU at stock speed and a GTX 980 Ti. The CPU reaches 100% usage before the video card does, no matter what video settings. The G3258 is then holding back the GTX 980 Ti and preventing it from performing at its full potential. You can resolve the bottleneck issue by upgrading the CPU to an i7-4790k.
 
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