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#1 Mdog333
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i have been learing alot about tech stuff on computers just need 2 know what does "Bottleneck" mean?
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#2 kaitanuvax
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i have been learing alot about tech stuff on computers just need 2 know what does "Bottleneck" mean?Mdog333

From Answers.com:

bottleneck

tr.v., -necked, -neck·ing, -necks.

To slow down or impede by creating an obstruction.

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#3 MonsieurX
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CPU isn't fast enought to keep up with the GPU
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When you have a part that slows down the rest of your parts. ex. If you have a pentium 4 and a Geforce 295. Your pentium 4 will bottleneck your 295, therefore you are not reaching your full potential.
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#5 tab132
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a good example of bottlenecking is a 4870 and a dual core trying to run gta4, despite the qualified card, it will run slow because the game is optimised for tri/quad cores. Thus your processer is holding back (Bottlenecking) your gpu's capabilitys.
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#6 DemetriP790
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u fail dude bottle neak means when part of your system is slowing down your computer like a high end graphics card with a crappy cpu one good example can be running a gtx 295 (super high end gpu) on pci express 1.0 with a athlon x2
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#7 Mdog333
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so will a Phenom 2.8 quad with a geforce 8600gts 512mb bottleneck?
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#8 JSDempsey
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so will a Phenom 2.8 quad with a geforce 8600gts 512mb bottleneck?Mdog333

Nope, that card is too weak to be bottlenecked by that CPU.