DRAM makers using either trench or stack technology seem to be facing a bottleneck on their migration to 70 nm from 90 nm processes, and are putting out 80 nm products as a transitional process in the meantime, according to industry sources. Read more
Macronix International Company (MXIC) announced on November 29 that its co-developed phase change memory (PCM) with IBM and Qimonda has proven to be applicable in sub-20nm geometries, indicating that the present physical barriers of NOR flash production on 65nm can be overcome. Read more
Originally developed to remove a massive processing workload from the CPU, some scientists examine how the graphics processors can accelerate non-graphic applications as well. The Geometric Algorithms for Modeling, Motion, and Animation (GAMMA) Research Group at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, reported this week that Nvidia's 7800 GTX reference card increased the speed of test applications by up to 35x. Read more
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Three dramatically different builds face off in a show of performance, defining the real value of each. Our mainstream system is designed to meet the needs of most users. Who should spend more and who can live with less? Read more
For the second to last day of our System Builder Marathon series, we add a $500 gaming PC to the mix. It's not going to be as quick as our other two builds, but we think Paul was able to get some serious value from this thing. Read more
We're following up yesterday's $4,500 behemoth with a more affordable $1,500 mid-range build. Let's see what sort of performance (and overclocking headroom) you can get when you spend one third of the money. Read more
This month's System Builder Marathon spreads the system prices out even further to $4,500, $1,500, and $500. Is today’s $4,500 system really worth three times as much as an upper-mainstream performance machine? Read more
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Thread : What is Bottleneck?
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Always Aim Higher!!!
Profile: newbie
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I heard that a CPU can bottleneck the GPU but what is bottleneck and what does it happen?
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Profile: stranger
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The CPU feeds data to the video card. If the CPU cannot supply the video card with data as fast as it can process it, the CPU becomes a bottleneck. |
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You tell me what I do.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottleneck_(engineering)
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bottleneck is the part of the bottle that the sweet sweet brew must pass through before it gets to your mouth (if drunk from the bottle) Message edited by russki on 08-20-2008 at 04:00:56 PM |
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A bottleneck is a limiting factor.
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SO a fast GPU will cause the CPU to bottleneck as it can't cope with the power of the GPU!!!
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Not exactly.
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That anolgy with the dragster is exactly it - If you had something like an Intel Extreme Edition Quad core overclocked to some insane Clock speed and 8 GB of 1333 MHz DDR3 paired with say, an ATI Radeon 9800, the GPU would be a bottleneck, and vice versa, if you had a GTX 280 with a Pentium 4, the CPU would be a bottleneck. |
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There's a statistic or bench for everything.
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the bottleneck in a system is ALWAYS the HDD.thats the slowest thing in a computer system. of course nowadays SSD solve that problem. |
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There's a statistic or bench for everything.
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^yeah except tell me the cost per gig of a SSD compared to a 640gig HDD |
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yeah i know.thats why i dont reccomend anyone to those 10K raptor and hugely expensive SSD!lol |
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There's a statistic or bench for everything.
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pffffffff the original raptors are now owned by the WD AAKS model drives. 320gig version has a single platter |
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There's a statistic or bench for everything.
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for less than a third of the price of a velociraptor too |
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they are currently developing a 20k raptor as well!sigh... when do they give up???lol |
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If your workload is hard drive intensive, then it pays to get a fast hard drive, as that will be the limiting factor.
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