Being CPU bound is not a property of a game but of your frame rate target. Why competitive titles and city builders are bound for opposite reasons.

Storage will not raise your average frame rate, but it does cause the stutter an average hides. The difference, and when NVMe actually matters.

A monitor cannot slow your PC down, with one exception almost nobody mentions. Here is what refresh rate, resolution and V-Sync each actually do.

100% CPU usage is only a problem in three of five situations. Here is how to tell which one you are in, and why the number in Task Manager often misleads.

Your processor pushes the same frames at every resolution. Your card does not. We ran one real pair through four resolutions to show where the limit moves.