bottleneck

http://live.pirillo.com/ – A bottleneck, when speaking about computer hardware, refers to the slowest components of the computer. These slower components generally hold data back from the faster components.

By removing a bottleneck you can make the entire system run faster. If you have a fast CPU, video card, and hard drive, but you only have a small amount of slow RAM, you can make the entire system run faster by upgrading the speed and amount of RAM in that machine.

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