PC Hardware Bottlenecks? Do you have one?

frank007

frank007

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Hey guys. Was just having a look at another thread and saw there was discussion about bottleneck. So i thought I'd ask what your bottleneck is or was. Don't know what mine is at the moment. (please don't be silly and say your DVD drive or something, I know that is what you were thinking :D)
 
Mine are CPU and hard drives... sold my rig a while back to make space for a new machine. Now running an i5 DC with a whole bunch of non-arrayed drives. Just waiting on bulldozer to make a move :\
 
Pretty much just my hard drive, which can only be remedied by a SSD. The rest of my hardware serves me quite well. :)
 
For me it was the previous MOBO and CPU

DDR2 RAM and a first gen Phenom X3 can only do the HD 6870 so much justice

did a new build recently, now those bottlenecks are gone, the HDD remains the only bottleneck now

SSD sounds like a plan
i score a poor 5.9 in windows with my HDD

everything else is mid 7

GPU being the highest 7.8
 
For sure my CPU is a bottleneck. I have a 940be @ 3.5ghz combined with a 5870, and I get 1000 fewer points in Vantage GPU than my friend's 5870 on his 860 @ 3.9ghz. And obviously since I don't have any SSDs the drives are also; right now my drives are choking trying to copy over a batch of files to a usb drive.

Why so? My 5770 is still kicking games out at 1080p with little effort. I hardly need 60fps in all my games.
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All depends on which games you like to play. There are some who aren't content until they can score 60fps in Metro with physx and tessellation cranked up. Luckily I'm not one of those, but I do like to see everything set at 'max' in the games I play.
 
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CPU. Running an i7 860 @ 4ghz, and my crossfired 5870s are still bottlenecked. I reckon an i7 2600k @ 5ghz (watercooled) should sort that out though. Not gonna upgrade now though, going to wait for the next generation of graphics cards and cpus and then go all out.
 
I don't have any bottlenecks at the moment..

I could do with another SSD though, or a 2600k.. Heh.
 
hmm.. Not sure .. what do you guys think of this .. its my rig , built a few years ago..
Its still doing the work so I guess its more than enough..
Guess it wouldnt make much sence in upgrading anything like the ram/cpu , especially looking at the prices of the newer models.

Heres my specs , let me know what you guys think ? Whats the biggest bottleneck ? lol
(the entire thing ? hehehe)

Asus Rampage Motherboard.
8 gig ram - ddr2 800mhz
3.16 ghz cpu (socket 755) - p4 dual core E8500
3 x 300gig drives in raid 0
Asus HD4870x2 screencard
 
I started my thread a while ago on this: http://mygaming.co.za/forum/showthread.php/6630-System-bottlenecks?highlight=

My old system:
Intel Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz LGA-775 Prescott 530 (single core)
nVidia GeForce GTS250 512MB Graphics Card (Running on PCI-E 16x v1.0 slot)
2GB DDR667 RAM (Dual Channelled - @533)
Gigabyte 8I915P Duo Motherboard.

There it was totally the CPU as can be seen. In my current system I will entirely agree with everyone above. Hard drive is a killer.
 
Overclocked my CPU to 4.6GHz last night for the fun of it. Mobo has a CPU level up feature that i tested. haha.

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GReeN_ORB said:
CPU. Running an i7 860 @ 4ghz, and my crossfired 5870s are still bottlenecked. I reckon an i7 2600k @ 5ghz (watercooled) should sort that out though. Not gonna upgrade now though, going to wait for the next generation of graphics cards and cpus and then go all out.
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On air or water? I have the same CPU and only one 5870
 
My only bottleneck is my Power Button ... as soon as I switch it on, the whole PC just becomes sluggish. :(

I doubt my 8600GT Gfx card is helping much. :|
 
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