Yep, we're talking about CPU bottlenecks again. The B word is one of the scariest things for the average gamer, so much so that people waste too much time on bottleneck calculators without ...

If you're the kind of person who spends well over $1,000 on high-end GPUs, you probably expect a massive jump in performance across every game you play after each upgrade. I mean, that's the whole ...

There’s one thing that will strike fear into the heart of any PC gamer: a CPU bottleneck. It’s unimaginable that you wouldn’t get the full power of your GPU when playing games, which is often the most ...

Bottleneck calculators are looked upon as useful matchmakers of PC hardware. Ostensibly, they help gamers decide whether certain CPU and GPU components should be shackled together inside their PC ...

If you're planning to build a new PC or have been wanting to build one, you've probably come across the term "PC bottlenecking." And you might already know that it's not a good thing. At the core, ...

Gaming is one of the most taxing things you can do on your computer. Most AAA games require you to have a supercomputer to run at their highest settings. However, we have noticed a peculiar scenario ...

Why do we complain about hardware bottlenecks when the software isn't written to take full advantage of all the cores and oomph hardware has? Why is it always the fault of the hardware and not the ...

I've been watching and reading CPU reviews for quite a while. For the past few CPU generations, it seems like reviewers have added several useful workloads (e.g. tile-based rendering and video ...

Gamers keep demanding 1440p CPU benchmarks, but higher resolutions often hide the very performance differences CPU testing is ...