Take a common 60FPS computer rig, then start to bottle neck a component individually until it hits a dramatic FPS loss or 30 FPS.
Eg: reduce clock speed until dramatic performance loss, return the system back to spec, then reduce ram speed or quantity until dramatic loss, then return to original spec, then video card swapped down until it drops to below 30FPS. Also a potentially common issue, 1 exhaust fan in a case without any other fan ventilation possibly causes thermal throttling.
Do every main component that can factor playability of games. Including hard drives with can cause objects to appear long after they should have due to loading objects slowly in larger world style games.
The idea behind this is to determine minimum hardware for 60FPS and 30FPS, also when and where bottlenecks bring the rest of your system down.
This is a everyday struggle for some. I found my AMD 1075T bottlenecks Farcry Primal from 60 to 26FPS in the benchmark. Changed up to a 6800K clocked at 4GHZ and it holds 60FPS the whole time. V-sync on, I only like tearing on jeans. Zotac GTX 980 on both systems.
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