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Which item is the bottle neck in my system.

HalfCrazy

HalfCrazy

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Last night I traded a WD 6.4gig hdd for a Epox 8kha+ mobo. I was just woundering what you guys think the bottle neck is in this new system. Below is the specs on the system that I'm asking about. I know the sound card is old and I should buy a new one. Never got around to buy a new one yet. lol My self I think the video card is the bottle neck of the system. But I just want to know what you guys think and any comments would be helpful. I bought the MX440 at the time because my old geforce card went bad and I had not other video card on-hand. Iwent to a local computer shop and thats all they had at that time. Really did not want to wait a few days to get one since I had not computer to play on.


AMD XP 1700+
Epox 8KHA+
256mb PC2100 DDR (Crucial)
Geforce4 MX440 64mb DDR
WD 80gig 7,200rpm
WD 20gig 7,200rpm
SoundBlaster PCI128

 
The graphics card. If you consider "3D gaming sound" an important feature then your soundcard is also one.
 
i agree with biggs; bottleneck depends on what you consider most important. myself, i think the bottle neck will always be the hard drive...as it's the slowest component in the box
 
I would say it is the video card, hard drives are technically a bottleneck..but not much you can do there🙂

Also, if it were my computer, I would put in more RAM..should be a decent performance boost.
 
It looks fairly balanced.

More RAM and faster video would be the next upgrade (sound card wouldnt hurt, but wont make a big difference).
 
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Agreed, RAM might help more, video could be better, sound could be better, but it depends if you're looking for more multimedia, gaming or better average all around performance. Are your HDs in a RAID (0 for speed). That would give you a nice boost.

If there is any bottleneck in the system slower than those HDs, its you 🙂
 
Thnx for the info guys. The first thing I'm going to add is some ram in the system and then a new video card.
 
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