Discovering Bottlenecks in PCs Built for Gaming?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday March 9, 2006 @02:45PM from the what's-the-hold-up dept.

QMan asks: "I, like many others here at Slashdot, am an avid gamer. Recently, I've been thinking about upgrading my gaming PC, but with all the mish mash of components in the box, I don't really know which components are slowing down the rest, and would be an ideal candidate for replacement. I'm looking for advice on how to discover the inherent bottlenecks in my system, whether they be from my video card, RAM, CPU, or other components. I've tried various benchmarking utilities, but they generally give an overall performance rating, but not much info on which device(s) had the most impact in limiting that rating. I'd imagine many of you out there have encountered the same problem, and might have ideas on where to start."

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Foirst Poizt by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-09 14:48 · Score: -1, Offtopic

LEWL I are teh firstest postar! Hooray for me!

EFNet pwns.
Irony by Foo2rama · 2006-03-09 15:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic

You know I used the Verizon day pass and this is the only article I got to preview... I sense something bigger going on...

lol

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Re:OS? Hardware? by PixelCat · 2006-03-10 07:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

if you want to save some mullah.

So that's where Omar is!