Video cards are bottleneck?

[gwlam12]

is it true that video cards bottleneck the performance of a pc?

i have:

1.4ghz T-bird,
512MB DDR Ram
60GB 7200RPM HD
and Radeon 32MB DDR (or the Radeon 7200)

So would my system be bottlenecked by the vid card?

 

[Actaeon]

Yeah, you're GPU is limiting your performance, try and get a nice R8500, or a Ti200 for cheap. You'll see a very nice improvement.

 

[Rand]

Almost any piece of hardware in your PC can potentially be a bottleneck depending upon what your doing with the PC.
Pick out virtually any major piece of hardware and I'm sure most of us can name a few situations in which it would be the primary bottleneck.

The graphics card is no exception to this trend, whether it's a bottleneck for YOU is an entirely different matter... and without knowing what you utilize your PC for I couldnt even begin to hazard a guess.

 

[max105]

Originally posted by: Rand
Almost any piece of hardware in your PC can potentially be a bottleneck depending upon what your doing with the PC.
Pick out virtually any major piece of hardware and I'm sure most of us can name a few situations in which it would be the primary bottleneck.

The graphics card is no exception to this trend, whether it's a bottleneck for YOU is an entirely different matter... and without knowing what you utilize your PC for I couldnt even begin to hazard a guess.

What Rand said 🙂 It is probably a good idea to get a new video card if you plan on playing a lot of games. You could use a nice 64mb or even 128mb video card for those new upcoming games.

 

[sxr7171]

But do you think that his video card is a bottleneck if the machine is used for runnning MS-Office, an occasional DVD, and web-surfing? I don't think so, but I may be wrong. For games I have no doubt that the video card is the bottleneck in his system but that would almost be a rhetorical question.