Computer Bottleneck

[BlakkIce]

Im going to be getting a GF 3 for my main system and a Radon 8500DV for my entertainment system where are the known bottleneck that affect performance I.E Ram,Hd, Cables,ETC. so i can tweek these things make sure i milk these cards for all they are worth

 

[nV2a]

The four things for a successful bottleneck free pc are :

-Ram

-Hard Drive

-Cpu

-GPU

A Tbird with a 266 mhz FSB, DDR system ram, a 7200 rpm hdd, and a Geforce3 GPU would make a FAST ass gaming rig.

 

[NelsonMuntz]

Your hard drive is your major bottleneck once you get a good CPU, RAM and GPU. Even really good hard drives are the part of the system that slows things down, but not in DVD playback because the hard drive isn't really used in that case.

 

[BlakkIce]

well im building a P4 with 512Mb of RdRam 2 60gig 5400 rpm drives on a Raid 20gig for the OS (winXP) and a 100gig for storage powered by a radon 8500DV this is my entertainment PC im ONLY using it as a Tivo and DVD encoder for Divx

for my gaming and regular computer i got a Dual P3 800 with 1gig of Pc100 ram 2 40ig ata 100 drives and Win2000 with a Gf @ and i get a score of 2700 i guess thats a pretty decient score