What's bottlenecking?

[Cereal5]

1 minute ago, Bleedingyamato said:

Even if you see something often that doesn't mean people don't deserve a straight answer and help.  

my answer was about as straight up as it gets. linus' youtube video on what is bottlenecking. who can describe it better than the forums namesake

[Bleedingyamato]

8 minutes ago, Cereal5 said:

my answer was about as straight up as it gets. linus' youtube video on what is bottlenecking. who can describe it better than the forums namesake

He's technically not the ultimate expert on literally everything.

 

I wasn't meaning to imply your answer wasn't good just that not everyone bothered to be as helpful.  

 

 

I'm sorry but I've seen and dealt with enough morons on Gamefaqs before coming here so I have a low tolerance for bs.  

 

Since I made an account on LTT I pretty much stopped using the Gamefaqs message boards and ditched the Gamefaqs PC boards entirely. 

 

The reason being that most of the people on LTT are very nice and helpful.  It's just so much nicer here and so it bugs me when people aren't as nice as I'd hope they could be.

 

I'm speaking generally.  I do not intend to direct this at you specifically.  

[Cereal5]

1 minute ago, Bleedingyamato said:

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nah I gotcha. I do find this forum to be pretty good, but i havent been on any others so I don't have any comparison. As far as Linus, I know he doesn't know everything lol i know what you're trying to say. He's a good resource just like the forums

[LogicalDrm]

Bottleneck is one of those words or things which are used way too much for the actual impact they have.

 

There are already good explanations here. Buts I'll add mine too. Bottleneck is slowest part in your system. It can be anything and there always is at least one of them. Can be PSU, mobo, RAM, drives, GPU, CPU, monitor, even cooler.

[NumLock21]

12 hours ago, Mark77 said:

Its the concept that without certain parts being at a certain performance standard, installing other faster parts will probably be a waste of money.

 

For instance, for many 'use cases', using a hard drive on a post-LGA775 system would be considered a severe bottleneck versus using a SSD. 

 

When applied to gaming, its the concept that you can upgrade the CPU all you want, but without a faster video card, your gaming experience won't be faster.  Or likewise, you can upgrade the GPU all you want, but without a certain amount of CPU performance, you probably won't see an increase in performance. 

 

In a nutshell, I cringe when I go into the "New Builds" section and see people suggesting some sort of Skylake or Haswell configuration, with a HDD for the boot drive. 

 

Some have a tight budget. Hdd came a long way, and no one had problems even before ssd even exist. $500 build, i would rather allocate as much as i can on a good gpu along with a hdd instead of a mid-range cripple gpu and ssd, for the sake of reducing bottleneck.

And you cringe? How long have you been doing this?