Bottleneck in My System?

[AaronMa]

Build info:

Gigabyte z77x ud3h motherboard

Intel i5 3570k

PNY GTX 670

8gigs of G.SKILL RipJaws @ 1600 MHz

WD Blue 500GB

Monitor: SyncMaster 205BW -refresh rate is 60 Hertz

My monitor is really old, so I am sure if anything it is my main bottleneck

But I had someone tell me the gfx card is bottlenecked by my cpu cache speed, especially when recording.

Any info is appreciated.

[Wats]

ya got no fast drives

tats y u cat record beans

Otherwise it is a nice rig, congratulations. :] I still use an old SyncMaster on the AMD rig, they are fine.

[Xploda]

The monitor really needs an upgrade though. Your system has far more potential in terms of resolution. Get yourself a nice 1080p monitor, those aren't that expensive these days.

For the bottleneck thing, your bottleneck is the harddrive. Especially when recording in a losless format, your harddrive just can't keep up with the huge write speeds that are necessary.

Linus has a video on this too, where he compares 2 SSDs in raid 0 to a single normal hdd or something.

The conclusion was that he could maintain far higher framerates while recording on the system with the SSDs.

Hope this helps

Edit: here is the link to the youtube video:

[Chemical]

First - Any reason why you are asking? What are you mainly using your computer for?

Second - Your monitor can't bottleneck anything however it is 8ms, it can cause ghosting, streaking etc.. if that is what you are noticing.

Third - Your cpu will not be the bottleneck, if anything upgrading your gfx will improve FPS however it is generally not recomended to upgrade unless it is around 3+ tiers. Also the GTX 670 is a very good card.

Fourth - As mentioned above an SSD would help boot and load times. I went from a Seagate 1TB 7200rpm to a OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS and I've noticed a huge increase in windows performence and a noticable increase in gaming.

[AaronMa]

I imagine you saw my other post as well :P

You think the recording problem is due to actual write speed? The drive just cant write fast enough to keep up so it lags a bit from write to record, correct?

I know the drive is about 4 years old.. OR MORE.. So I know it could possibly be that but more info would be appreciated.

[Xploda]

I imagine you saw my other post as well :P

You think the recording problem is due to actual write speed? The drive just cant write fast enough to keep up so it lags a bit from write to record, correct?

I know the drive is about 4 years old.. OR MORE.. So I know it could possibly be that but more info would be appreciated.

Yes i really think that's the problem here.

You could however increase the framerate while capturing when you use some kind of compression. This will result in worse video quality, but the framerate will be at a more constant rate. That's at least what i understood.

You should watch the video i posted in my previous post here, very informative. I think it will answer a lot of your questions.

[Xploda]

First - Any reason why you are asking? What are you mainly using your computer for?

Second - Your monitor can't bottleneck anything however it is 8ms, it can cause ghosting, streaking etc.. if that is what you are noticing.

Third - Your cpu will not be the bottleneck, if anything upgrading your gfx will improve FPS however it is generally not recomended to upgrade unless it is around 3+ tiers. Also the GTX 670 is a very good card.

Fourth - As mentioned above an SSD would help boot and load times. I went from a Seagate 1TB 7200rpm to a OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS and I've noticed a huge increase in windows performence and a noticable increase in gaming.

You will not see an increase in fps however, just to be clear.

The load times will indeed become significantly shorter.

[AaronMa]

First - Any reason why you are asking? What are you mainly using your computer for? Second - Your monitor can't bottleneck anything however it is 8ms' date=' it can cause ghosting, streaking etc.. if that is what you are noticing. Third - Your cpu will not be the bottleneck, if anything upgrading your gfx will improve FPS however it is generally not recomended to upgrade unless it is around 3+ tiers. Also the GTX 670 is a very good card. Fourth - As mentioned above an SSD would help boot and load times. I went from a Seagate 1TB 7200rpm to a OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS and I've noticed a huge increase in windows performence and a noticable increase in gaming.[/quote']

1) Someone told me I had a bottleneck in my system. I argued that I didn't and they brought up that my CPU cache speed is wayy slower than my gfx card memory speed. Which would cause recording difficulties because the CPU cannot keep up. Comp is heavy gamer, does render a bit of video.

2) Not noticing tearing or streaking.. Just thought it could potentially be holding back the GPU power. Which Im sure it is, but that shouldnt hurt performance at all..

3) Agreed

4) See post right below yours. Help answer that. :P

Thanks.

[Chemical]

First - Any reason why you are asking? What are you mainly using your computer for?

Second - Your monitor can't bottleneck anything however it is 8ms, it can cause ghosting, streaking etc.. if that is what you are noticing.

Third - Your cpu will not be the bottleneck, if anything upgrading your gfx will improve FPS however it is generally not recomended to upgrade unless it is around 3+ tiers. Also the GTX 670 is a very good card.

Fourth - As mentioned above an SSD would help boot and load times. I went from a Seagate 1TB 7200rpm to a OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS and I've noticed a huge increase in windows performence and a noticable increase in gaming.

Correct, it was my load times that decreased.

[Chemical]

I just read your other post now. If you haven't or aren't aware Linus posted a video on how to get the best performence out of FRAPS see below:

I do not have much experience with FRAPS the only game I have used it on is WoW with a Seagate 1TB 7200rpm drive and I never experienced any stuttering or lag.

Lol just refreshed the page and noticed Xploda had already posted the link to Linus's video = P

[Xploda]

First - Any reason why you are asking? What are you mainly using your computer for? Second - Your monitor can't bottleneck anything however it is 8ms' date=' it can cause ghosting, streaking etc.. if that is what you are noticing. Third - Your cpu will not be the bottleneck, if anything upgrading your gfx will improve FPS however it is generally not recomended to upgrade unless it is around 3+ tiers. Also the GTX 670 is a very good card. Fourth - As mentioned above an SSD would help boot and load times. I went from a Seagate 1TB 7200rpm to a OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS and I've noticed a huge increase in windows performence and a noticable increase in gaming.[/quote']

1) Someone told me I had a bottleneck in my system. I argued that I didn't and they brought up that my CPU cache speed is wayy slower than my gfx card memory speed. Which would cause recording difficulties because the CPU cannot keep up. Comp is heavy gamer, does render a bit of video.

2) Not noticing tearing or streaking.. Just thought it could potentially be holding back the GPU power. Which Im sure it is, but that shouldnt hurt performance at all..

3) Agreed

4) See post right below yours. Help answer that. :P

Thanks.

You don't have any bottleneck at all, it's a system with very recent components. It doesn't get much faster for gaming.

I really wonder who made you believe all this. :P .

I'm using almost the same system actually, except the gpu, which is a GTX 570.

The cpu is surely fast enough to keep up with a 670 or even more high end graphics cards.

[Helltech]

First - Any reason why you are asking? What are you mainly using your computer for? Second - Your monitor can't bottleneck anything however it is 8ms' date=' it can cause ghosting, streaking etc.. if that is what you are noticing. Third - Your cpu will not be the bottleneck, if anything upgrading your gfx will improve FPS however it is generally not recomended to upgrade unless it is around 3+ tiers. Also the GTX 670 is a very good card. Fourth - As mentioned above an SSD would help boot and load times. I went from a Seagate 1TB 7200rpm to a OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS and I've noticed a huge increase in windows performence and a noticable increase in gaming.[/quote'] 1) Someone told me I had a bottleneck in my system. I argued that I didn't and they brought up that my CPU cache speed is wayy slower than my gfx card memory speed. Which would cause recording difficulties because the CPU cannot keep up. Comp is heavy gamer, does render a bit of video. 2) Not noticing tearing or streaking.. Just thought it could potentially be holding back the GPU power. Which Im sure it is, but that shouldnt hurt performance at all.. 3) Agreed 4) See post right below yours. Help answer that. :P Thanks.

1) Who ever told you that has no idea what they are talking about.

2) Not using a high enough resolution is what is holding back your GPU, it is putting more stain on the CPU and less on the GPU.

An SSD upgrade would help recording immensely.