What is the meaning of "bottleneck"?

When a particular component in your computer is the performance limitation.


ie. Your video card is bottlenecking the game you're playing. Upgrading to a better video card will increase performance (fps) of your game.
 
It's when one or more components in your system can limit your performance.

These two videos from Linus explain it really well. :)


 
It'd be a lot easier to just post your system specs here instead of making people jump through hoops to try to help you.

That being said, with the age of your system it's more along the lines of 'new computer time'. You could upgrade the GPU but your CPU will be behind in most tasks, you could upgrade the CPU but the GPU will be behind in most tasks. If you upgraded the CPU and GPU then you will be limited by RAM. So really you're looking at everything.

Also, I think the term bottleneck is sensationalized a bit. There are natural performance boundaries for every component. Usually you'd see it for 'component X is inhibiting expected performance' as opposed to 'my computer is a bottleneck because it can't reach 1000 FPS'.
 
gelo3iverson said:
ok.

does my system have bottlenecks?
you can see my specs on my new thread
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Post your specs here, then we can help you.

The only way to give you an accurate answer is if you also tell us what you use your PC for. For example, if you are running CPU-intensive encoding apps, the GPU typically doesn't make a difference, and if you are playing games a mechanical HD won't be much of a concern either.
 
spirit said:
It's when one or more components in your system can limit your performance.

These two videos from Linus explain it really well. :)


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I go to Linus's Tech Tips for all my computing needs! He's such an IT professional! /s
 
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