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Benchmark program that helps determine bottlenecks?

AustinInDallas

AustinInDallas

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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?
 
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.
 
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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.
 
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