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hmm what's the perfect CPU for this build

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ooh this looks pretty good now i just need a graphics card to pair

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it with right hmm

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well this looks too pinner this is probably going to bottleneck my CPU

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but then this huh this is probably over the top it might

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like destroy it just to be in close proximity to it

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but i mean how do you keep from bottlenecking your

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CPU with your GPU and then do you have to worry about picking the

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right CPU for the GPU can it work both ways

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what does a balanced build even look like these days

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good thing we've got all the tools to find out

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when i say bottleneck what comes to your mind is it super laggy unplayable frame

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rates and games is it waiting five minutes just to load

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Windows is it the neck of a bottle

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whatever your exact experience with bottlenecks is they all have one thing

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in common like a five lane highway merging before

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a single lane tunnel one aspect of your computer system will

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be holding back another one keeping it from reaching its full

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performance potential so

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bottlenecking has become one of the most common fears among new pc builders i

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mean after all no one likes wasting money so are these

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concerns legit or has bottlenecking

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become some sort of boogeyman for system builders to deter new users from

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configuring their own we were actually inspired to make this video by the

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incredible bottlenecking that we experienced when

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we tried to game on this right here a 64

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core xeon phi system but

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that was obviously an unrealistic scenario i mean this CPU is made up of

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64 like crappy atom processors

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so today's investigation will test just

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how badly we can bottleneck a more normal system built from actual desktop

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components so in front of me here is a

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lower end current gen CPU a popular but pretty obsolete CPU from

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2013 and a high-end current generation

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processor we're going to start then with the most basic of our graphics cards a

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gtx 1030. this will help us establish a

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baseline now i'm actually expecting

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similar performance in games going all the way from a mid-tier processor from

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five years ago all the way up to the brand new one

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that would indicate a GPU bottleneck

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where it's holding back our better CPU

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and success i guess

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because we're basically even across the board surprisingly cs go actually runs

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really well on this card averaging over 120 FPS for all of our benches but

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what's less surprising is the way that in a gaming workload an underpowered

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graphics card will perform its best

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pretty much regardless of which CPU it gets paired with so you heard it here

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first folks a processor upgrade will do nothing for

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your gaming experience if your GPU can't

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keep up with that said 3d creation software

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blender reveals a difference between our platforms demonstrating that whether a

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system is bottlenecked or not is heavily dependent

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on the type of work you plan to do on it

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now then let's retest everything with a gtx 1060

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and see how the situation changes

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right away we're greeted with oh good a

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difference so the core i7 pulls way ahead in

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assassin's creed origins and cs go and

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3dmark confirms this data with a much nicer spread between our platforms which

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means then that our more powerful processors are getting to stretch their

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legs a little more because they're not being held back to the same degree but

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wait it appears as though the gtx 1060 is

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still the bottleneck for deus ex and far

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cry 5. this is where our second lesson about

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bottlenecks comes in it can even be dependent on the

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individual piece of software with some

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games favoring faster cpus and others

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needing more GPU horsepower in order to

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look their best coming back around then to our non-gaming tests the results

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confirmed that productivity still likes a fast CPU to keep the GPU fed

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who knew okay then so that's probably quite

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enough of these uh blue collar gpus where the devil is the titan v

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james

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james is running something on the titan v right now so we're going to use this

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titan v box this gtx 1070 and this gold

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sharpie marker to create a reasonable facsimile of a titan v

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here we're expecting some pretty different results and

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yes we have finally broken the GPU

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bottleneck on deus ex and our ryzen 3 is

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definitely beating out the fx 6350 for

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the first time in far cry 5 showing us

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what an optimized title can do unfortunately blender still doesn't run

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on the titan v so we're just left with v-ray which doesn't scale

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bringing us to our last test scenario

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dropping our monitor's resolution

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down to 1280 times 1024

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on that very same titan v

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test platform and oh what's this

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interesting even with a titan v

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we're back to CPU bottlenecking

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ah yes the final lesson is that bottlenecks

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will also appear and disappear depending

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on the settings that you're using in your program

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lower resolution gaming is easier on the

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graphics card but actually doesn't ease

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the CPU's job to nearly the same degree

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and higher resolution gaming is harder

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on the graphics card but since that drives the frame rates lower the CPU

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doesn't end up having to work as hard so if your gaming system was severely

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CPU bottlenecked you actually might be able to upgrade your monitor and play at

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a higher resolution without losing any FPS

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go figure so really the main takeaway here

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is that there is no way

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to avoid bottlenecks all together

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think about it a theoretical system with no bottlenecks

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would have unlimited performance in every workload

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because nothing would be a limiting factor obviously that's ridiculous

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something is always going to hold you back and you can't get

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paralyzed by the bottleneck boogeyman

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as you've seen here as long as you apply some common sense to your config and

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avoid pairing thirty dollar cpus with

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three thousand dollar graphics cards you should be just fine and you can always

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ask for advice like maybe over on the Linus tech tips forum about where the

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bottleneck might be in your system and how severe it might be

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just make sure to provide some information about what you expect to use

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your pc for and what kind of settings

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you expect to run at or as you can see it's going to be pretty

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hard to help you so thanks for watching guys if this

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