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You'll run into CPU bottlenecks long before you get anywhere near 100% utilization. You'll start seeing it around maybe 60% utilization on any specific core.
I don't think I've ever seen 100% utilization across the entire CPU on any consumer PC's use case. It would have to be a very specific set of things, excluding synthetic benchmarks.
If you’ve got a REALLY shitty CPU it’s not hard to max them out. We have some 11th Gen. i3s at work and windows update, or just installing stuff while doing anything else will peg the CPU.