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    Default PC Hardware Bottlenecks? Do you have one?

    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 )
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    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 :\
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    Pretty much just my hard drive, which can only be remedied by a SSD. The rest of my hardware serves me quite well.

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    Biggest bottleneck is my hard drive for sure.
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    Mine is GPU, sigh @ old 5770

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    Quote Originally Posted by _Caboose_ View Post
    Mine is GPU, sigh @ old 5770
    You will be surprised. What HDD do you have? Cause if you ain't got solid sates, sorry to say but that will then be your bottleneck although i would also change that GPU ASAP!
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    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
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    windows experience ratings need an adjustment
    "multiplatform"... the word that ruins games for PC gamers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by _Caboose_ View Post
    Mine is GPU, sigh @ old 5770
    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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    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.
    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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