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What causes a bottleneck?

Modjo

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Hi all. I've been an overclocker for over a year now and I'm still struggling with the mathamatics of it all. As you can see from my sig I'm currently running 667 ddr2 memory, would this create a ceiling for my overclocked CPU? I've also heard of bottlenecks with regard to the memory, HTT etc.
This is the bit I don't understand.
Would like to squeeze a bit more juice of of my 5200 before I upgrade :D
 
Something which causes a bottleneck is a piece of hardware which prevents a certain software program or game from being played faster..

It is the limiting factor in your system, which therefore bottlenecks everything else.. IE, the top of the range graphics card on single core amd 3000 would get low FPS as that processor would not handle it.

In your system The CPU/Graphics is limiting your FPS, however id say its a fairly good system, and if you want further performance it would be wise to buy a whole new system (unless your happy with the games you currently play at your speeds)

The only way the ram would prevent you is if the ratio is 1:1 and you cant take the ram over a certain Mhz, meaning you will be unable to attain a higher clock speed. however thats not a problem in your case.. For example it would be a prob for me (if my ram didnt go above 800mhz, id be unable to go past 3.6Ghz on my CPU, as FSB would be 400, which results in double rate of 800, if i raise FSB ram would increase to unstable as the FSB/RAM ratio only goes as low as 1:1
 
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