When do i know theres a bottleneck?

[mowlio]

Hi guys i'm in the process of overclocking my cpu & gpu heres how its looking currently...

Motherboard: Gigabyte P55-US3L
Ram: 4GB Ripjaw CL 8
CPU: i5 750 @ 3.2
GPU: 5850 @ 795 Core / 1081 Memory

Just wondering how much can i push the gpu before i start getting a bottleneck and also what are the symptoms of a bottleneck.

Thanks!

 

[Akempster]

each gpu is different. you will have to find this out for yourself!

regarding the bottleneck it is often when you raise the settings but there is no performance increase. You can however, calculate the bottleneck but that gets a bit technical and hard to explain how to do...

 

[Boozebeard]

The bottle neck will be completely dependant on the software. Some applications will use a lot more processing power than graphics and vice versa.