That's not what bottleneck means and every person in this thread is on the same page except you.

Just think about the term bottleneck, it is referring to a liquid holding apparatus with a narrow point that slows the flow of the liquid.

To transfer that over, a bottleneck in computer terms is the piece that is holding everything back from max performance. It isn't about the cpu running at full potential it is about your whole system.

with a 4850, it doesn't matter if he has an athlon II or a 1000 dollar i7 extreme edition, because the gpu is what is holding everything back, thus the bottlneck.

Your definition is wrong, please go look it up.

GummiRaccoon

if its stable its safe

It would barely play them at all. If you were to spend the same amount and build it yourself you could easily afford something that would.

The hard drive, graphics card, power supply and motherboard are all crap.

from newegg you can buy

Gtx 560

Sony dvd player/burner

650w psu

2500k

Z68 mobo

8gb 1600 ram

Seagate barracuda 500gb

For a grand total of $762, this pc will easily play anything out today

i did give links but this site is a waste of time. html errors for everything. seriously, **** you gamestop, make a ****ing forum that works so people dont waste their time trying to write something only to find that your site is bugged to **** and it wont post. honestly, in this state i wouldnt even open the ****ing forum you should close it till its fixed. and ill remind myself not to come here in future. because every response i put a little effort into, is a **** waste of time.

goto guru3d.com for a proper hardware forum which actually WORKS!

itll be the onboard still enabled in bios. disable the onboard vga before you switch cables to your gpu. and make sure the gpu is powered. it needs direct power from your psu. your psu should have some pcie power cables which fit the graphics card

sounds like overheating. download some tools to keep and eye on your temperatures. either way i'd send it back because you cant open your laptop up to fix it without breaking your warranty (probably)

logitech make the best mice but the m305 is poor for the money when you can buy a g400 which is superb for £10 more

http://www.ebuyer.com/273952-logitech-g400-gaming-mouse-910-002279

honestly razor mice are generally buggy and quite poor quality.

you may find this informative although its a few years old.

http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1265679

the g400 is the successor the the mx518 which was widely regarded as technically one of the best mice available.

thats an honest system hes suggested there for $750

im not going to say it blatantly but you can be a little creative about win 7.

you need a new cpu if you'd like to play the latest games. which means a new mobo, which means new ram too. and then you need a new psu and then finnaly your graphics card.

you could get the graphics card and psu and upgrade everything else when you can. it would work till then. but you'd want to get a better psu else youll only need to buy another one for anything better than a 4870. if you buy a decent 650-700w psu and a 4870 then atleast you can keep the psu for when you can afford to upgrade everything else.