ok many thanks
@fevgatos for having taken the time to take a look it! Remind me your config please?
I had an 2 good ideas yesterday in fact about that garanteed fps by NZXT
As of now, the garanteed fps in 1080p for Fortnite is 178 +/- 10%. In august 2021, it was 222!
web.archive.org
So they must be quite serious about keeping that value up-to-date as new drivers are beeing released.
It looks that recent updates of the game and/or drivers resulted in a drop of performance. That also explains those "sources" I keeping mentionning from my op and their fancyful fps: there was just measured a long time ago, that is simply not how the game must work now.
Second good idea: maybe there are just using that 10% margin of error to be sexy: they measured 160 fps, which seems reasonable, and market a guaranteed fps of 160/0.9 = 178 +/-10%
"People measure 160 fps? We are in the range, and we sold even more!"
EDIT:
I will also take the opportunity to correct my op, cause in fact the prebuilt and its guaranteed fps are not the same for the US website and the EU website, I mixed the 2, so as of today:
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- US: 10700KF 8-Core 3.8 GHz + GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (GDDR6 8GB) + DDR4 2x16GB 3000 MHz + SSD NVMe M.2 1TB --> 1080p 183 fps / 1440p 159 fps
- EU: 11700K 8-Core 3.6 GHz + GeForce RTX 3070 (GDDR6 8GB) + DDR4 2x8GB 3200 MHz + SSD NVMe M.2 1TB --> 1080p 178 fps / 1440p 148 fps
If both US and EU did the tests is the same conditions (driver version etc.), then well it prooves the CPU bottleneck I think