whats the bottleneck of my sytem....

[Lombardaga]

is 128 MB of PC133 ram the bottleneck here...

Motherboard: Abit KT7 w/RAID
Harddrive: IBM 75 GXP ATA 100 7200 rpm, 30 or 45 GB
RAM: 128 MB of SDRAM
CPU: Athlon T-bird 800 MHz
Graphics card: A Geforce256 w/32 MB DDR RAM based card or Geforce2 MX w/ 32 MB SDRAM based card
Sound card: SB Live! 1024 Bulk
Monitor: Hansol 710D 17"
Modem: Billion 56kb v.90 PCI modem
Case: Aopen HQ08 maxi ATX 300Watt
CD-RW: Creative 8x4x32x internal retail
Speakers: Creative FPS 1000 (4 speakers and a subwoofer)



and BTW is there any performance difference between two 128 MB DIMMS or one 256 MB DIMM???

 

[loogie]

The speakers. They suck ass. Your power cord sucks too. I had a generic power cord and it would only let me overclock my processor like .5 mhz, but after I switched to a name brand one (my secret), I was able to squeeze out an astounding additional mhz. w00t.

 

[fkloster]

Video card mem.

 

[Modus]

Definitely the video card, but that can't really be helped until the next generation of graphics chipsets come out (and we are charged astronomical prices for them). Of course, the hard drive is always the bottleneck as well.

Modus

 

[Davegod75]

what bottleneck? Are you noticing performance lags somewhere? You haven't really given us anything to go on. I think your title should be "what should I upgrade in my system for it to be faster" Is that what you want to know? Listing the OS is always a good thing too

 

[Noriaki]

<< is there any performance difference between two 128 MB DIMMS or one 256 MB DIMM??? >>



Sort answer: No.

Long answer: Yes, there is, but because all the DIMMs are clocked together you can't detect it. DIMM A might have the data ready 1/4 of a clock cycle before DIMM B, but as far as the CPU is concerned none of it is ready until the clock ticks. So as long as all the DIMMs have it ready by the appropriate clock edge (which they will unless they are defective) it makes no difference.



The worst part of that system is the Video card, but there's not much you can do about that until the GF2 Ultra or V5-6000 is available and you probalby don't want to buy those...

128MB of RAM is probably still enough, but if you have the cash spring for 256, you'll need/want it eventually, but right now your performance won't be hurt much by having only 128.



If you are just looking for general upgrades my first candidates would be:
CD-RW: Creative 8x4x32x internal retail
My friend's 4x4 Creative lasted less than a year, and I think she used it about once a month. Don't use creative CDRWs unless it's like given to you or something.

Speakers: Creative FPS 1000 (4 speakers and a subwoofer)
That's not a subwoofer :|:Q:disgust::frown:
Again they'll do if you already have them, but if you are buying new I'd use better speakers, Cambridge/Creative's higher end stuff is nice, but the entry level stuff is very very entry level. Altec has nicer speakers for the same price. Altec Lansing Products

 

[Lombardaga]

davegod75, by bottleneck i mean if there is any component that slows the down the possibility of my system, or does every part in my system fulfill eachother good. for example that my speakers doesnt get the most out of my soundcard, or whatever....just as an example...

BTW this is my FUTURE system...