Benchmark program that helps determine bottlenecks?

[AustinInDallas]

Does anyone know of a programs that will tell me what my weakest point in my computer is, so I know what needs priority upgrading?

 

[lehtv]

Just use the games you play to determine that. You can test for a CPU bottleneck by lowering your display resolution. If the framerate doesn't increase as much as it should, you're CPU bottlenecked. If you're GPU bottlenecked, framerate should increase in inverse proportion to the number of pixels rendered. E.g. if you get 30fps at 1920x1080 (= 2.07 Mpix), you should get around 30 * (2.07/1.44) = 43fps at 1600x900 (= 1.44 Mpix).

Apart from gaming, storage is usually the biggest bottleneck on general system performance. That can be fixed by buying an SSD and installing the OS and programs on it.

 

[sm625]

PC Wizard from CPUID is pretty fast and breaks it down into 5 categories. I used to think Sandra was good but it is slow and bloated. Windows experience index is probably the easiest way to see what is your bottleneck.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/amd-system-monitor/pages/overview.aspx

Run it in the background while you're playing a game. When you hit a slowdown alt-tab back to the desktop. If your GPU was pegged at around 100% that's your bottleneck. If any of your CPU cores were pegged at around 100%, that's your bottleneck.

 

[Don Karnage]

List your specs and well tell you what needs upgrading

 

[buli99hr]

I had bottleneck on my new PC and I visit this page.
It helped, its high quality bottleneck calculator
www.thebottlenecker.com

 

[sm625]

I had bottleneck on my new PC and I visit this page.
It helped, its high quality bottleneck calculator
www.thebottlenecker.com

This site doesnt appear to be doing any actual hardware benchmarking. You just tell it what you have and it tells you what your bottleneck is based purely on assumptions and table values.

 

[Sable]

I had bottleneck on my new PC and I visit this page.
It helped, its high quality bottleneck calculator
www.thebottlenecker.com

Wow. That's... rubbish.