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Definition: A term used to describe a point of slowdown. This can be used for crowds, vehicular traffic, and most commonly, is used to describe a pinching point in computer performance. A "Bottleneck" can be attributed to any number of computer hardware components, such as the CPU, GPU, RAM, MOBO, etc.
Usage: I think your CPU is a bottleneck on your video card's performance.
Posted by jerreece on April 27, 2009 at 12:40:33 Pacific

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