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Which is causing bottleneck, gfx or processor?

post #1 of 9
7/26/06 at 9:10am
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I was wondering, what is the limiting factor on performance in the M1710? What i mean is which is gonna need to be replace first, (if you can) so future games play well?
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post #2 of 9
7/26/06 at 10:46am
Right now almost every high end game is bottlenecked by the Graphics card on laptops...
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post #3 of 9
7/26/06 at 10:47am
as of now i dont think either is bottlenecking the other, in the future though, i think a graphics card will begin to bottleneck because of such power hungry and advancing technology.
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post #4 of 9
7/26/06 at 10:52am
the floppy drive can be a be source of bottlenecking if you use it
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post #5 of 9
7/26/06 at 10:54am
Thread Starter 
Thanks for the responses guys.
Been helpful (except FrenchFred lol)
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post #6 of 9
7/26/06 at 1:05pm
LOL for the floppy .

The bottleneck depends on the game you're playing; some games specially UT based are limited by CPU; others games that are optimized to support Dual Core CPU's like Q4 are more GPU bound.
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post #7 of 9
7/26/06 at 2:17pm
mmmmmm.....floppy
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post #8 of 9
7/26/06 at 10:49pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Frenchfred
the floppy drive can be a be source of bottlenecking if you use it
oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh, i think its time i upgrade... (would you believe that my comp in my sig actually came with an external floppy drive?!)
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post #9 of 9
7/26/06 at 11:29pm
both the CPU and GPU can be the source of bottlenecking depending on the games upcoming. If your a heavy gamer with games nowadays such as GRAW, Rise of Legends, and Oblivion then you'll note all 3 makes heavy use of CPU and GPU power due to heavy shader tasks on the GPU side and heavy AI calculation and Physics processing to tax the CPU.
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