Is 10% Bottleneck Bad? Acceptable Levels Explained (2026)

You ran your components through a bottleneck calculator and got “10% CPU bottleneck.” Now you’re worried—did you make a mistake…

January 31, 2026·10 min read

CPU vs GPU Bottleneck: Which Is Worse for Gaming? (Complete Guide)

You’re comparing two builds or planning an upgrade, and you want to know: is it better to have a CPU…

January 31, 2026·11 min read

Your new graphics card isn’t delivering the FPS you expected. Or your games stutter during action scenes despite having decent…

January 31, 2026·11 min read

You check your performance overlay mid-game and see your GPU pinned at 99% while your CPU hovers around 50%. Your…

January 31, 2026·14 min read

Gone are the days of staring at loading screens while your friends are already in the match. A fast SSD…

January 27, 2026·23 min read

If you’ve ever stared at that dreaded “Storage Full” notification while trying to download a new game, you know exactly…

January 24, 2026·18 min read

NVMe SSDs have transformed what we expect from storage performance. Where SATA drives top out at 550 MB/s, today’s NVMe…

January 19, 2026·15 min read

Your game library keeps growing. Call of Duty alone now demands 150GB+, and that’s before you add Baldur’s Gate 3,…

January 19, 2026·11 min read

The Crucial P5 Plus and Samsung 990 PRO represent two of the most popular PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs on the…

January 19, 2026·9 min read