Balanced Power Question

This may be a weird question and it might be hard to understand what I'm asking but here goes: how do I tell when or not the new laptop I'm going to customized will be bottlenecked in performance by one of its parts? In otherwords, how do I know whether to spend my budget on an GPU, CPU, RAM, etc. upgrade before I'm able to test it?

I'm not new to computers but I never really considered a power balance problem before I talked to my cousin about it. Is there any way to know how to balance a laptop so that all parts are equal and that, down the road, one of the parts, for example the CPU, will not limit the rest of the computer from performing to its potential?

 

It'll absolutely depend on what you do. And assuming that you're a normal person who uses more than a single program on your computer, various parts are going to be the bottleneck at various times.

 

Assuming a lot of gaming will be happening on the laptop, "what parts can be "weaker" than others without compromising performance?" I guess is what I was trying to say lol. I know the GPU has to be intense but do you really need 4GB of RAM and an equally intense CPU to get similar performance? Or are 2GB and 2.xxGHz processor good enough? Thanks for the response, but can you explain when the processor gets bottlenecked in a game? Or is it 90% the GPU that limits gaming performance?

 

It depends on the game. RTS games are a little more dependent on the CPU than, say RPGs or FPSs are.

Now unless you're a hardcore gamer I THINK that you can get away with a 2.xx CPU with 2GB RAM. I do just fine with a C2D T7500 @2.2ghz with 2GB RAM.