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How do I know if I'm bottlenecked

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Hi I've been watching a bunch of PC builds lately and it hit me. I know what bottleneck is, what causes it, etc. But I don't know how to know. Like how do I know if I'm bottlenecked? Do I lag, do things not load/load fast enough? Like can you guys help me. 

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Performance deficit is usually the way to find it out, but never use the bogus bottleneck calculator online.

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If RAM or CPU is holding you back, you will be getting stutters and FPS drops. Or your GPU will not be reaching 100% load if CPU or RAM is heavily bottlenecking it.

 

The best way to check it is to run MSI Afterburner with CPU/GPU/RAM utilization monitoring.

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