Testing the bottleneck?

[cMoAyRoItOe]

Hey guys i got a question, is there a way i can test where the bottleneck in my system is?

AMD XP 1800+
ASUS G4TI4400
Gigabyte 7VAXP mobo
Infineon ECC DDR 512 PC2100
WD 40 GIG HDD

thx

[daveleau]

You can look at benchmarking sites to see what others have slightly different compared to your setup and how that correlates to your scores. There's not really a program that will give you stats on what could benefit you unless you are talking about a major bottleneck. That program would be SiSoft Sandra, but it is not an extremely reliable bench.

In looking at your system, I'd say these are the upgrades that would give the most benefit:
1- Processor (1800+ is not top of the line)
2- Video card (Ti4400 is no match for the 9800)
3- Chipset-mobo (KT400 is inferior to the NForce2)
4- RAM (The ECC is slowing your system down. You don't need ECC unless you are using your system for extremely sensitive data like a high level financier)

Of the upgrades, the processor'd be the best upgrade. Video card wouldn't be a bad idea, but the Ti4400 isn't too shabby. Going to another chipset is minimal. Maybe, I should have put the RAM upgrade as the #3 change because getting rid of ECC would benefit you noticeably in benchmarks.

[MitaDC]

Sorry to ask a stupid question but what is "bottleneck"??

Originally posted by MitaDC
Sorry to ask a stupid question but what is "bottleneck"??

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basically its the slowest part of the computer holding up the rest of the computer

[ShawnD1]

Bottleneck in terms of what? What do you use your computer for? Different programs have different bottlenecks. Things like Photoshop will think your CPU is too slow. Things you would use in an office like Word, and CAD would think faster ram is the best. Games will want a faster GPU (yours is fast enough though).

[cMoAyRoItOe]

Mostly gaming, i like ECC cause its great for system stability.

The 1800 is way sufficient for now. the ram could b a little faster and the vid too but as far as now i think its all good.

[nukes]

Biggest performance boost would probably be an NForce2 board and a high end radeon.
Maybe overclock the CPU a little?

[ShawnD1]

NForce2? What good would it do for him to use a 333mhz bus board with a 266mhz bus processor? At the very most he will see like 5%. It's not worth the cost.

[thePh@r@oh]

run sissoftware sandra combined performance index wizard it shows you graphically where your strong points and weak points are.

[ShawnD1]

Do you need the pro version for that?