Bottlenecking

[siravarice]

A friend of a friend is complaining about bottlenecking on his computer with these specs:

4gb DDR3 -2000 PC3-16000 g skills and a amd phenom II x6 1090T

I don't know what GFX card he has, but I'm pretty sure he shouldn't be getting any bottlenecking from a setup like that. Am I wrong?

What do we all know about bottlenecking then?

 

[Tortuga]

What kind of games and resolutions is he playing on? Is he running crossfire? I don't think there should be any issues with an X6 holding back any gpu. If hes comparing to what an Intel cpu is getting with the same gpu, than I can see why he would think that.

 

[siravarice]

Don't know yet, waiting for a reply so I can find out, but I think the only bottlenecking he would be getting would be maybe benchmarks, and that is CPU specific and not really applicable to actual gameplay a lot of the time.

 

[stevebarnes15]

Do you know the wattage of psu,and if there are any heat problems?

You can get your friend to check his core temps by downloading AMD overdrive at the following link:

AMD OverDrive

Also could be graphics bottlenecking dependant on the card as your pc is only as good as your weakest part.

theres a guide somewhere which tells you about gpu cores to cpu cores performance,think it was on the nvidia site.

Basically it explains that the gpu cores will almost never out perform the cpu cores,as very little applications are made to run on gpu cores only.

So if it's a low end card with little cores this can lead to performance issues or something along those lines, i cant be 100%,maybe someone here can shed some light on the subject?

Maybe he could check for a bios update for his motherboard also,this might potentially fix any issues of cpu incompatability on an older revision motherboard.

What are his components scoring on windows experience index?,this can tell you a lot about where the pc is lacking.

As you can see below my weakest part is my hard disk,and thus the system score is 5.9 despite most of my components scoring higher.

 

[Tortuga]

I wouldn't place too much stock in trouble shooting the issue with windows experience index.

 

[marsey99]

Amd CPU will bottleneck a gpu as much as a core2 system while an i7 setup would get more out of the same gpu.

Would the gains be worth the cost?

Well that's a question for your mate and his credit card.

 

[siravarice]

He still hasn't said anything yet. Probably gone and hidden under a rock when I said to not be so silly, he shouldn't be getting any gaming bottlenecking.

 

[HeaT]

A friend of a friend is complaining about bottlenecking on his computer with these specs:

4gb DDR3 -2000 PC3-16000 g skills and a amd phenom II x6 1090T

I don't know what GFX card he has, but I'm pretty sure he shouldn't be getting any bottlenecking from a setup like that. Am I wrong?

What do we all know about bottlenecking then?

Link your friend this Understanding Hardware "Bottlenecks"