What excactly is a "bottleneck"?
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A bottleneck is when one component of a system is significantly lower performance than the rest of the system. A Titan video card and a Celeron CPU with a single 4GB DIMM would be an extreme example. But it could be the opposite also, an overclocked 8700K CPU with a NVIDIA 730GPU. One piece is out of proportion with the other and therefore can't be used to the maximum performance. Even a monitor could be a bottleneck for a system.
With all that said, EVERY system will have something that is the limiting component. If you are satisfied with the results, then you don't have a bottleneck.
With all that said, EVERY system will have something that is the limiting component. If you are satisfied with the results, then you don't have a bottleneck.
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Most typical bottleneck issues we get asked about here is when an inadequate CPU can't keep pace with the GPU - - especially when gaming. This can cause, for example, lower FPS than the GPU itself is capable of delivering if the bottleneck wasn't holding it back.
but for example on msi afterburner and riva tuner I can monitor my cpu and my gpu (i got a new pc with an AMD fx 6300 and a gtx 670,it hasnt arrived, yet) if i see that the cpu is on 99% while gaming and my gpu is lower, then i have a cpu bottleneck? And if i see that my gpu is at 99% load then my gpu is the bottleneck?
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we see that a lot here on tom's from people with old system or not a lot of cash trying to build gaming pc. a lot of us when we see people with old pc we tell them it time to send there pc to the pc grave yard and start with a new one.
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As I said, EVERY system has a limiting factor. If your CPU is 99% then it is probably the limiting factor. If your GPU usage was 80%, I wouldn't call it a bottleneck. If your GPU is 20% then it probably is. BUT, if your game play is acceptable, it doesn't really matter.
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