What causes a PC to bottleneck?
Close out background applications. Background applications are one of the biggest culprits of a CPU bottleneck. A CPU typically runs at between 2% and 4% usage when idle, 10% to 30% when playing standard games, and up to 70% when playing more graphics-intensive games. Does every PC have bottleneck? Every PC has bottlenecks at several points, oftentimes within each component. …