How would I find my Macs bottleneck?

0	??? Is there a app which can do this? Anything else? upgrade neck app pc mac bottle bottleneck asked Nov 13 '10 at 10:20 Fish 7.3k●109●144●215

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1	the bottleneck being the slowest part? so it will be your hard drive unless you have a pcie ssd answered Nov 13 '10 at 11:06 Tim Fontana 15.3k●135●199●368

Many people already know that the hard drive will most likely be the bottle neck, especially in today's SSD craze. I also want to know any options for identifying bottlenecks (plural), not what they will most likely be.

What I do know is that Windows 7 has an experience index of some sort built into the OS. Maybe there is something similar for OSX? The windows index will only be a fair measure for your performance on Windows, correct? Or maybe I am wrong.

I do know that you can benchmark your system as a whole using an app like Geekbench. I don't know too much about how you can derive your system's bottleneck from the information it provides though. Can anyone else comment on these thoughts?

answered Nov 17 '10 at 14:33

henkim21
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geekbench ignores the hard drive and the gpus. only bothers with ram and cpu. try passmark if available

(Nov 17 '10 at 14:35) Tim Fontana

Youre right about geekbench.
passmark isnt available to OSX to my knowledge? am i mistaken? maybe Cinebench could be used for cpu/gpu.

(Nov 17 '10 at 15:37) henkim21

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