How bad are Bottlenecks?

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I am buying a gaming pc and some of the games have a bottleneck. How do I know how bad a bottleneck is? Will my fps be 100 and go to 70. Or will my fps be a 50 because of the bottle neck? or will it go from 100 to 30? How do I know?
 
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Actual frames-per-second (FPS) output is highly depend on your 1) CPU, 2) GPU, 3) monitor resolution, 4) specific game, 5) specific environment in the game, and 6) specific in-game graphics/detail settings.

To check:
1) Download MSI Afterburner here: https://www.msi.com/page/afterburner
2) Setup On-Screen Display (OSD) by following instructions here: https://www.msi.com/blog/setting-up-osd-with-msi-afterburner
3) Play a game, observe FPS count, and adjust settings as needed.

If you don't have the PC yet, you'll have to rely on some youtube gameplay tests by searching for uploaded videos having the exact specs you want to buy tested on the exact games you want to play and deduce from there how good or bad the "bottleneck" will be on...
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Actual frames-per-second (FPS) output is highly depend on your 1) CPU, 2) GPU, 3) monitor resolution, 4) specific game, 5) specific environment in the game, and 6) specific in-game graphics/detail settings.

To check:
1) Download MSI Afterburner here: https://www.msi.com/page/afterburner
2) Setup On-Screen Display (OSD) by following instructions here: https://www.msi.com/blog/setting-up-osd-with-msi-afterburner
3) Play a game, observe FPS count, and adjust settings as needed.

If you don't have the PC yet, you'll have to rely on some youtube gameplay tests by searching for uploaded videos having the exact specs you want to buy tested on the exact games you want to play and deduce from there how good or bad the "bottleneck" will be on your specific situation.
 
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Can't tell from specs alone what the exact FPS drop will be, as there are A LOT of variables involved: 1) CPU, 2) GPU, 3) monitor resolution, 4) specific game, 5) specific environment in the game, and 6) specific in-game graphics/detail settings. - not limited to these factors along, you can add software, drivers, RAM, cooling, etc.
 
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Question from PachytheDino : "How bad is the bottleneck"



http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3192807/ultimate-bottlenecking-guide.html


Every computer is bottlnecked in everything it does. The word is used so incorrectly so often. That should be a pretty good pairing especially if it's any 6th gen i5 other than the i5 6400 even it's okay just a good bit worse than the rest
 
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