Michaelvas17

Will definitely be exploring Ryzen, since I haven't done an AMD in a while and it looks promising. Thanks everyone!

Ryzen build seems definitely more promising as far as encoding is concerned. I'm aiming for at least 1080p30 streaming, and guessing that the Pentium will be a bottleneck, it might be worth it. 16GB RAM does seem a bit overkill, but since we're aiming for the high encoding, it might be worth it. Would opting for 8GB instead of 16GB cause a dip in performance? I will probably opt for a HDD instead because we might be recording on it, so 240GB might not cut it.

We're trying to keep the build under $600.

Follow up question: Here's the part list my friend gave me. Just wanted to get a second opinion before I hit up Micro Center and Newegg. - CPU: Intel Pentium G4560 or Intel Core i3 6100 (probably Pentium) - GPU: EVGA Geforce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB - RAM: Kingston 8GB DDR4 - Storage: SanDisk 240GB SSD - Motherboard: MSI H110I Pro AC Mini ITX LGA1151 Any thoughts?

Hi, My friends and I will be building a dedicated streaming PC on the cheap (that running streaming software, not games) and I was looking at CPUs. The PC will basically be taking input from a mixer and capture cards. Two CPUs that we were looking at was the Pentium G4560 and the Core i3-6100. At a glance, they look fairly similar; both dual cores, etc. My question is whether or not to get the i3 over the Pentium. The Pentium is definitely cheaper, and since they seem so similar, it may be worth buying over the i3. Like I mentioned before, we're trying to keep this cheap because we're on a fixed budget. Any help would be nice. Thanks!

Only thing I would add is that you need to make OEM media in order to use the legit key off the COA. What version of Windows does your machine run @Ramontes? EDIT: Reason being, a stock 'retail' copy of Windows doesn't accept OEM keys.