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Bottlenecking: What Is It?

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Alright, now you may be familiar with my setup (If not, check out this ) and should have heard the relative shortcomings of it, due to the mismatched parts. Now the fact that the parts were mismatched, were not the only problem - incorrectly placed parts can lead to hardware bricking, and an endless cycle of BSODs upon booting up. This is practically bottlenecking.  Say you have an Intel Core i3 3220, and pair it up with a RTX 3060 (Somehow, don't bog me down with the details) and you'd expect to get the high performance rate from the 3060 - but you won't get no where, not one single bit. An i3 3220 is very, very weak - and its a useless of a component in the face of a RTX 3060. This is a classic example of why you do not pair a weak CPU with a powerful GPU. Powerful GPUs, which are mostly newer-gen cards, contain new and updated internal hardware, that differs from say older cards, from a couple of years back. Now the same goes for CPUs, in the past they had older architec

Overclocking: What is it?

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Say you somehow magically acquired dual RTX 3090's, coupled with 4 32 GB sticks of DDR4 4100 Mhz RAM, and with a Core i9 12900K CPU. It runs like pure butter, and pure bliss right. What if that's not enough for you. What if that unfair advantage you have over other people (Who use PC's that are like a hundredth less powerful like this) is just not enough for you. The most ultimate speed obtainable is just too boring for you - now that you have a behemoth of a PC, where is there to turn to next? IS THIS JUST NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU?? The answer, is of course - either swapping some of the hardware for better ones, or if buying better hardware is tedious - overclocking is your answer.  Now I'm certain you've heard of this term before, and before I get onto how it helps boost your system's overall performance, you need to know what exactly it means. Basically, almost all pieces of PC hardware, like RAM, the CPU and the GPU are overclockable . ( Practically any device or