- Joined
- Aug 9, 2016
- Messages
- 246 (0.09/day)
- Location
- Groton, CT
System Name | Da PC Brah |
---|---|
Processor | AMD Athlon X4 880k (OC'ed to 4.5 GHz) |
Motherboard | ASRock FM2A88X Extreme 6+ |
Cooling | CRYORIG C7 |
Memory | 2x4GB Kingston HyperX Fury Black DDR3-1866 MHz |
Video Card(s) | Sapphire Radeon RX 470 4GB |
Storage | Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB (OS and 3 games) Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB (Mass Storage) |
Display(s) | Changhong 32" 1080p |
Case | Thermaltake RX-1 Overseer |
Power Supply | EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold |
Bottlenecking, lately when I see people build PC's they are always worried about "bottlenecking" or when they get poor performance in a video game they blame their PC having a "bottleneck". The stigma that anything low to mid-range being a "bottleneck" is grinding my gears, "I'm building a PC for gaming, will my 860K bottleneck my 970?"
A bottleneck by definition is: A lessening of throughput.
The mishandling of this term is just driving me mad lately, being it "PC Builders" on YouTube who have sprouted up doing reviews of low to mid-range parts and will throw the term "bottlenecking" to try and scare people into not buying a particular product.
So tell me, why is it that people are misusing this term? Is it gross incompetence? General lack of knowledge? Me? I don't really know. That's why I'm asking you guys to figure this out.
A bottleneck by definition is: A lessening of throughput.
The mishandling of this term is just driving me mad lately, being it "PC Builders" on YouTube who have sprouted up doing reviews of low to mid-range parts and will throw the term "bottlenecking" to try and scare people into not buying a particular product.
So tell me, why is it that people are misusing this term? Is it gross incompetence? General lack of knowledge? Me? I don't really know. That's why I'm asking you guys to figure this out.