Discover the telltale signs that your CPU, not your GPU, is causing performance bottlenecks and limiting your gaming ...

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 ...

Although GPUs are often the focus for gaming, CPUs are perceived as an important upgrade too. According to AMD and Intel, we all need the fastest Ryzen 7 5800X3D or the Core i9-12900KS to get truly ...

My dad has a PIII @666. For some reason (not overclocking) it runs equivilant to a 1.4 Ghz P4. But graphics are aweful. He's running an old Voodoo 4000 with 16mb. He just wants to upgrade graphics ...

A more powerful GPU usually means your games run better, but that's not always the case. The CPU's role in tasks and scheduling can bottleneck performance in some instances. Microsoft has been testing ...

Processors continue to get faster and faster, but the frontside bus (FSB) remains one of the biggest bottlenecks on system performance. Most major manufacturers, including Intel, Motorola and AMD, are ...

Wild Hearts will be receiving a patch next week to address CPU bottlenecking on "mid to high-end" CPUs, according to a statement from developer Omega Force. Although Wild Hearts will be officially ...

It's taken six months, but Dragon's Dogma 2 PC is finally fixed thanks to the latest update which addresses the frequent random crashes, and more importantly, the CPU bottlenecking that would tank ...

On coolers with heatpipes and a tall heatsink/fan floating above the cpu, is not the space directly above the cpu where the fan does not hit a potential bottleneck where heat could build up? Do people ...

So, you’ve got yourself a high performing CPU, but what GPU bottlenecks Ryzen 7 5800X3D? The X3D CPU was launched back in April 2022 with a bang, thanks to its new 3D V-cache technology. Less than a ...