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You’ll run into CPU bottlenecks long before you get anywhere near 100% utilization. You’ll start seeing it around maybe 60% utilization on any specific core.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen 100% utilization across the entire CPU on any consumer PC’s use case. It would have to be a very specific set of things, excluding synthetic benchmarks.
If you’ve got a REALLY shitty CPU it’s not hard to max them out. We have some 11th Gen. i3s at work and windows update, or just installing stuff while doing anything else will peg the CPU.
Honestly my 5800x3d/128gb/4070ti ddr4 setup still just absolutely rips. Undervolted some of the cores way back when and it runs cool and just hammers whatever I throw at it. I used to traditionally do 4 year refreshes, but this builds doing time. I’m not even going to look at it until 2029/2030 now. And at these prices, if they are still like this, I’m all for PC gaming and everything but I’ll be in my late 40s then. I just don’t game as much anymore and the console/PC gap is so big right now for price/performance differences that I might just not even.
I have no plans from upgrading from AM4 and DDR4, even before the prices went crazy. I don’t need to, my CPU isn’t even being used 100% during gaming.
You’ll run into CPU bottlenecks long before you get anywhere near 100% utilization. You’ll start seeing it around maybe 60% utilization on any specific core.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen 100% utilization across the entire CPU on any consumer PC’s use case. It would have to be a very specific set of things, excluding synthetic benchmarks.
If you’ve got a REALLY shitty CPU it’s not hard to max them out. We have some 11th Gen. i3s at work and windows update, or just installing stuff while doing anything else will peg the CPU.
Honestly my 5800x3d/128gb/4070ti ddr4 setup still just absolutely rips. Undervolted some of the cores way back when and it runs cool and just hammers whatever I throw at it. I used to traditionally do 4 year refreshes, but this builds doing time. I’m not even going to look at it until 2029/2030 now. And at these prices, if they are still like this, I’m all for PC gaming and everything but I’ll be in my late 40s then. I just don’t game as much anymore and the console/PC gap is so big right now for price/performance differences that I might just not even.