What is "Bottlenecking" as Fast As Possible
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·2014-05-07
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a bottleneck occurs when there is some restrictive element holding back the
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performance that could otherwise be achieved the name comes from the way
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that fluid flows much slower through the neck of a bottle than it would if that
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neck didn't exist another word for a bottleneck is a chokepoint let's start
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with a couple of examples in a vehicle the traction between the tires and the
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road is important for optimal power delivery between the engine and the road
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making the car move forward now an example of where traction would be a
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bottleneck would be if your engine is so powerful that when you go to accelerate
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the wheels just spin now at high speeds a wing can improve traction by using
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airflow to force the rear of the car down towards the road this can alleviate
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that bottleneck well hey that sounds great why don't we just all get wings
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and put them on our cars no that's not the answer this civic's performance for
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example was not limited by rear wheel traction and it probably doesn't even
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have sufficient power for the benefit of the downward force to outweigh the
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negative effects of the additional wind resistance caused by this upgrade so in
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this case it wasn't a bottleneck at all so changing it doesn't help and actually
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might even make things worse so this is a tech channel so our next example is a
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pc one let's say you take a very old computer and assuming it's even
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compatible you put the very latest thousand dollar graphics card in it the
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pc is not going to slow down and honestly gaming performance will
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probably be improved but that card won't reach its potential even though the new
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card might be 10 times faster than the old one you may only get a small
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performance increase because the CPU and memory and potentially other components
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are so slow that they can't feed the graphics card data at a fast enough rate
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to keep it busy so it's just sitting there most of the time in that example
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of bottlenecking those funds could have been put to better use on a more modest
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all-around system upgrade which would have achieved better performance in
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gaming and in other applications at the same time now with all that out of the
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way it's important to clarify this whether we're talking about your pc car
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air conditioner phone or even your very own body everything has bottlenecks you
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can't just hide from them until the point where a task can be performed
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perfectly and instantly something is always holding back or bottlenecking the
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process so if they exist everywhere what can we do about them the answer is to
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reduce them avoid extreme bottlenecks figure out what you're trying to achieve
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and direct your resources towards the things that directly affect the
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performance of the things that you care about so back to pcs as an example if
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you're a gamer spending a big chunk of your budget on a graphics card does make
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sense as long as the rest of your components are reasonably up to snuff if
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