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@TwilightLinkThink of it as a biological virus. It can't infect a host that it wasn't intended to run on. A Linux distro can't run a MS Windows process. You are safe to copy multimedia files and dosuments onto a pendrive, then format the infected drive just to be sure.

exactly.

Clear CMOS. Either by using the jumper on the botom right where it says CMOS or taking out the flat battery out of the motherboard for about 30 seconds. Edit: I assume it isn't a freshly built system and it worked before.

get a 400-500 Watt PSU from a reputable brand. I saw chinese cheap PSU blow up and take whole system with it. Pain in the ass and fire hazard. Friend of mine had cheap 250 Watt PSU take out his motherboard + HDD.

great idea, you can safely extract needed files with a linux live cd onto another drive. then you can nuke the infected drive.

Alphacool is overengineered German quality product. But then again, I'm biased.

Disagree, for multimedia I take 16:9 over anything else. Imagine the black bars watching a 21:9 movie on a 3:2 display! For multimedia 16:9 is perfect.

Look at the notebook segment as a whole. 90 % are 16:9.

most laptops are 16:9. It is what the TV industry dictates.

Asus Zenbook. Massively underrated.

Go used by all means. Check this out:

It depends on resolution, fps and quality preset used. i7-3770k is no slug either, used to be Intel's top of the line consumer CPU. Unlocked multiplier you can OC it to 5 GHz if you are lucky. I have an overclocked i7 5820k 6-core CPU (x99 platform!) and it struggles to do 1080p 60 fps encode with OBS (x264) on anything higer than veryfast quality.

Thing is, every OBS source is additional load on CPU. Comparable to AfterEffects compositing in real time. Most streamers use overlays and web sources for alerts (checking URLs every second or so), webcam source also needs encoding so now your CPU has 2 video streams to encode.

@handymanshandleinteresting. 60 fps? What happens if you add OBS overlay with text, animation and web sources for alerts? Oh and picture-in-picture webcam source like most streamers.

I would love to see the dropped frames and which preset you use. @handymanshandle - someone who wrote a 70 page thesis about video quality of H.264 vs NVENC for livestreaming purposes.

@handymanshandleyou cant stream decently with that cpu. period. maybe 1080p60 ultrafast or superfast which looks like dogshit.

I don't smoke at all and you shouldn't too. What's "just streaming"? For Twitch/YouTube/Mixer/any other platform you need to encode in H.264. H.264 encoding at 1080p is a very computationally intensive task. Modern quad core desktop CPUs can barely do 1080p60 at an ok quality. Do you think all the streamers are stupid to put Threadripper CPUs in their streaming PCs? Please stop spreading bullshit and maybe educate yourself on how live streaming works. A capture card isn't some magic device which will take you OBS scene and input signal and magically encode it into a single video stream. It doesn't have a built-in encoder, it's literally a device which will take HDMI input signal and forward the bitsream to the CPU via PCIe interface.

Don't expect a good experience. With an NVIDIA RTX card you could get encoding with NVENC up to 8K resolution. That Ryzen CPU is good for 1080p 30 fps streaming with low quality.

Good point, I paid 70 € for my Pi 3 Model B+ complete with case, power supply and SD card. Office, browsing and YouTube 1080p no problem.

How likely is OP's dad to have a 4K PC monitor?

@HairlessMonkeyBoyno need to take every word literally. "cheapest" = garbage you can pick up for free. OP didn't say "working" after all. etc etc

@HairlessMonkeyBoyUsed i7 with mobo = 50 $. Ryzen 3 2200G with cheapest mobo = 150 $. Your point being? Cheapest = unusable. Need to look for cheapest usable.

Intel® HD-Graphics 3000 You can easily find refurbished office PCs with Intel i3 or i5 quad core 3rd-4th gen for cheap.

I have a system with a 9 year old 2600K (sandy bridge) and youtube 1080p playback is buttery smooth.

Grab a refurbished office pc for 200 $. Dell / HP Optional: upgrade to SSD for 40 bucks.