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Before you tell me I should have built a custom-built PC, I know I should have, but then I went ahead with a pre-built one, knowing nothing about PCs. Anyway, I am soon planning to upgrade it. My current PC is an HP Pavilion 500-368na, the specs are 8GB DDR3 RAM, an i7 4790s and a very bad (possible bottleneck) Nvidia geforce gt 705, anyway, for my upgrade, I am going to get a very good budget card, or so I have heard, a EVGA GTX 750 ti 2 GB GDDR5 (the single fan version) and because I am not very familiar with the term bottleneck, will this be a bottleneck? So, after upgraded, I will have an i7 4790s, 8GB DDR3 RAM, and an EVGA GTX 750 2GB GDDR5.
 
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Your CPU won't bottleneck any current graphics cards if that's what you're asking. If your asking if you GPU will bottleneck your CPU, yes, but just about every GPU will so don't worry about it.
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Your CPU won't bottleneck any current graphics cards if that's what you're asking. If your asking if you GPU will bottleneck your CPU, yes, but just about every GPU will so don't worry about it.
 
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The easiest way I know how to describe a bottleneck is with a McDonald's straw. In a well balanced system, when you take a sip, you get a mouth full of drink. With a bottleneck, you basically squeeze the straw, somewhere, ending up with drips. A slow hdd being a chunk of ice at the bottom, weak cpu is that nice bend right above the lid, and the gpu is your gf squeezing the straw right at your lips. Technically, a bottleneck is a component that slows the flow of data at some point, your hdd will be decent, the cpu is more than decent, so the bottleneck will be the gpu. Your particular cpu is plenty strong enough to handle any gpu, so absolutely no worries there at all. Even as big a step up to a gtx750ti will be, technically it'll still be somewhat of a bottleneck, because even that card cannot handle everything the cpu is capable of. But thats the nice thing about cpus, they don't have to operate at 100%. They'll flow what ever is required by the gpu, no worries about being starved.

It's a good upgrade, but there is plenty of room left in the straw if you ever decide to blow out the budget.
 
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