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Idenfitying the bottleneck.

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I haven't been long around to really know what I am talking about here, but in the mid-90s I precisely remember RAM being a major bottleneck on my Packard Bell Pentium computer. a 32MB stick from Best Buy made the world of difference in performance. In the mid-2000s, RAM started getting cheaper, and it is so cheap (16GB for $60), it is no longer even relevant. So the bottleneck now I feel is data storage speed. SSDs have done a lot to address this, but there is room for a lot of improvement.

Before the mid-90s, or really at any other point in history, was there a specific component inside of the computer that was really the main bottleneck? Ie the computer processor itself, or data storage capacity (not speed)?

I'm just curious to see how the desktop has really evolved from the end user point of view.
 
This really doesn't feel like the right forum for this thread, but sure lets have a go.

In terms of modern computing, I think the biggest bottleneck I see is internet transfer speeds. Current generation processors, ram, hard drives, and graphics cards can handle anything except for the most extreme/niche uses (video compiling, compressing, formula manipulation, etc). The biggest frustration I usually have now is waiting for web data to load/files to download, and this is on the Verizon Fios network (fastest non-commercial ISP).
 
There's no definitive answer to the question posed. Bottlenecks have and will always exist. The specific hardware/software that people complain about bottlenecks depends on their computing tasks -- some are common and resolvable, others are niche and accepted as standard, and many in-between that range.

If you're looking for something more concrete, then you'll either need to rephrase the question or require the full details about the historical event and where the observed/traced bottleneck was determined.
 
I'd have to say the most common bottleneck today would be software. Rarely does software fully utilize high end computers.

I mean if you got TOP of the line everything the software is likely going to be the main cause of any type of slowness.
 
Basically what I was going to say /\

All depends on the user... my parents have been on a P4 @ 2.8Ghz single core CPU with 1GB of memory tell just last week... I put them on a Q6600 which is WAY WAY faster... they said they can't tell the difference? WHY? because they just surf the web, check email... what is slow, the internet is slow, not the computer.

For me... gaming, data transfer, CAD, high end graphics kind of stuff. what is slow... the internet. but what else is slow my RAID 0 SSDs, even @ 1GByte/s read it is still slow imo... when everything else is going way faster that is still a bottleneck.

But really the only thing that is super fast in my rig is my 5Ghz CPU, I don't run a program or programs that put that thing at MAX.

So for me, The internet is #1 and #2 is storage (either SSD or HDD)
 
#1- Windows & any other software that includes an buttload of legacy support. This ALWAYS slows down a next-generation machine with otherwise up-to-date components for that particular time period

#2- Internet ISP's & their refusal to let your connections go as fast as they are capable of, at least not without charging you an arm & a leg.............................
 
bonehead123 said:
#1- Windows & any other software that includes an buttload of legacy support. This ALWAYS slows down a next-generation machine with otherwise up-to-date components for that particular time period

#2- Internet ISP's & their refusal to let your connections go as fast as they are capable of, at least not without charging you an arm & a leg.............................
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1. Then what specific software doesn't slow down a next-generation machine in your perspective?
2. You can't provide 100% capable throughput to 100% of your asynchronous user base 100% of the time. So is it just the price that you're complaining about? How would you solve this problem for 100% of your customer base?
 
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