SnowyMus

Yeah, it's a scam. These types of sites have been making the rounds to take advantage of desperate PC gamers and enthusiasts. The domain isn't even that old, being registered about 22 days ago according to the whois database.

Do you mean one PC for gaming and one PC dedicated for streaming? Or is this one PC doing both tasks? The topic sounds like you want the second one, but your post reads a little bit like the first. Oh, and what's your budget? $1000, $1500, and $2000 can get you very different PCs. And what market? Because $2000 can get you different stuff depending on where you live. If you mean the first one and you want a dedicated PC for JUST streaming (so this PC would just do streaming, no gaming whatsoever, and you'd use a capture card for the gaming) this is what I'd do: PCPartPicker Part List CPU: Intel Core i5-10400 2.9 GHz 6-Core Processor ($164.99 @ Best Buy) Motherboard: Gigabyte B460M DS3H Micro ATX LGA1200 Motherboard ($104.99 @ Newegg) Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4-2133 CL15 Memory ($51.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Kingston A400 120 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($24.99 @ Amazon) Case: Fractal Design Core 1100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($47.98 @ Newegg) Power Supply: EVGA BQ 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply ($39.88 @ Amazon) Total: $434.82 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-05-29 03:32 EDT-0400 A 6 core i5-10400 (NON-F) build is fairly inexpensive and should be plenty. Considering the maximum quality you can get out of Twitch's bitrate constraints, anything more is overkill, and anything less is a terrible value. You can upgrade the storage if you want to do recording as well. If not, a single 120 GB SSD is fine. Getting anything more than 8 GB of RAM for something that's not running anything except OBS is kinda pointless. (Also, for PCs this cheap, honestly, you might be able to find a better deal with OEMs, but mind the specs if you do this) I'm guessing not. In which case, again, we need a budget.

It'd certainly be a lot better for mining than the MacBook! I still wouldn't recommend buying it if you were only going to mine on it, though. Get it to play games or do work, and mine on the side when you aren't using it maybe. Yes.

Sure! Doing heavily compute-based tasks like mining and folding can be very intensive! Don't expect a lot of things to run very well while you're doing it. Performance will go back to normal when you stop. IIRC the new M1 MacBook Air doesn't have a fan. Take that what you will on how well it'll run. As for longevity, well, probably not too much, but I can't say running something intensive nonstop on an ultrabook form factor laptop is great for it. Your battery will probably hate it. I know Ethereum works based on the article Kilrah linked. You can also use a VM to run other operating systems (but not dual boot iirc), though note that you will only be able to run ARM-based operating systems (which will only be able to run ARM-compatible applications). How much power consumption? A lot. Don't expect your battery to last long. Is it worth the investment? Absolutely not. The article quoted $0.14/day. If a MacBook Air is $999, then it'll take about 20 years before you start making money back. The M1 is a pretty good low-powered SoC for doing lots of things (web browsing, productivity, light gaming, etc.). Mining is not one of those things. If you're really interested in mining, I recommend building or buying a gaming PC. You can use that to play games, and then you can mine when you're not using it. It definitely won't be cheap (especially with shortages) and it will suck quite a bit of power and resources when you're using it to mine, but hey, you get an actual gaming system that may (eventually) pay for itself.

It uses PCIe, so it'd probably work just fine if you had the drivers installed for it, though the latest driver for it is from 2016. If your current card is also an NVIDIA card, you'd probably need to uninstall those drivers, first. I'm pretty certain that card is gen 1 PCIe, so using anything less than a x16 slot would likely significantly hold it back with newer games, assuming it could play those. GeForce 8 only supports up to D3D10 iirc.

What games are you playing? I'm assuming by 2K, you mean 2560x1440 and not 1920x1080 (since it can technically mean both). Also, what is your GPU usage in games? Anyway, at 1440p, I think you'll struggle to find very many recent games that are significantly bottlenecked by the CPU. With games like Cyberpunk 2077 absolutely destroying even Pascal GPUs, I'd personally look into buying something like an RTX 3070.

In most cases, yes, a PSU by a reputable brand will be fine, but even reputable brands have their nukes! For example, EVGA makes the SuperNOVA series of PSUs, and many of them are pretty good, but their NEX lineup isn't amazing, and I wouldn't want their 400 W N1 PSU to occupy the same BUILDING as my PC (which, for a power supply, that dismal two year warranty should've been enough to make you reconsider). I suppose a tier list is a fairly decent way to quickly look up if a PSU is good or not (A/B are good, C is fair if you're building a budget PC, D isn't good, and E is a nuke), but I always recommend looking at a thorough review of any product before you make your PC run off of it.

Of the two choices, I'd get RAM first. You might be able to use that RAM module if you put the 8 GB in one channel and the 2x 4 GB in the other, but there is a chance that the RAM won't be compatible. And, of course, having 16 GB of not very fast RAM is preferable to 8 GB of fast RAM.

According to your motherboard page, yes: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/Z370-A-PRO#support-cpu You have to update to the latest BIOS first: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/Z370-A-PRO

8700K is equivalent to a 10600K which is still going pretty strong. You're fine.

The RX 550 shouldn't have any issues outputting video to the two displays. 16-18-18-36 is fine for 3200 MHz. The factory timings won't really help you that much, but you can tune them yourself if you want to get some additional performance. It's a pretty good SSD. That might be cheaper! If you're okay with buying used, I'd buy a used R9 350, instead. It's complete trash for gaming, so you might be able to get it for pretty cheap on the used market, and it supports 4K output. Yes.

If you don't have any other slots and you want to use that SSD, then I suppose that would be why you'd put a PCIe 3.0 SSD in a PCIe 4.0 slot.

The 2500K would be better, but $80 sounds a bit high. Where are you buying it from?

Oh yeah, definitely stay away from nukes. In that case, I'd maybe get the S12III of those suggestions. It shouldn't blow up your PC with these components, but that's all I can really say. You may be limited on upgrading to anything that consumes more power than this.