goatmanxl

Thanks, I appreciate your help! Hopefully I get everything squared away, and hey man, if it all works out, I'll make sure to thank you on my first stream haha

Do you know of any guides for assembly? Or should I look for someone that knows what they're doing? I wanna learn so that in the future I can plug and play, especially when I finally cave and get a new GPU.

So, stay with me here, what's the difference between AMD and Intel, because I've watched from the sidelines as people tear each other apart debating what's better, would I be changing anything about the layout of my PC? Because I've never jumped into that arena, I'm a little clueless about what goes where and how

Most I could spend is maybe $800

Only thing I don't want to do is get a new GPU, just because they cost so much right now.

Sorry, should've quoted so I don't cloq the post, but could you suggest what parts would help me stream more efficiently? I want to be able to stream and also save audio/video so that I can use it later i.e. YouTube, Twitch Clips

Can you suggest what I should do and what I could do? The goal is to be able to stream at a minimum of 1080p 60fps

I currently have a GTX 1070 with an i5, it was a pre-built that I bought about 2 1/2 years ago. I want to get into streaming, but I'm not sure if my PC can even handle it. I tried streaming on discord for my friend because we had a full lobby, but it felt like it was struggling. Should I buy a new processor and a power supply to match? Does anyone have any kind of guidance or tips? Be patient pls I just got into PC with this first rig and don't know much. Specs below (copy & pasted) Processor: Intel i5-7600K Processor(4x 3.50GHz/6MB L3 Cache) Motherboard: ASUS TUF Z270 MARK 2 -- USB 3.1 (1 Type-C, 4 Front, 5 Rear) Memory: 16 GB [4 GB X4] DDR4-2400 Memory Module - Certified Major Brand Gaming Memory Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GIGABYTE G1 Gaming 8GB Power Supply: 350 Watt - Standard 80 PLUS Bronze - Free Upgrade to 600W Standard 80 PLUS Gold Processor Cooling: DEEPCOOL Gammaxx 400 CPU Cooler - White - White Primary Hard Drive: 1 TB Hard Drive -- 32MB Cache, 7200RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Dual 1TB Drives (2TB Capacity) - RAID 0 High Performance External Optical Drive: LG 14x Blu-ray Rewriter, DVD Rewriter Combo Drive - Black Sound Card: 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard Network Card: Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100) M.2/PCI-E SSD Card: 128 GB ADATA SX8000 Series M.2 PCIe NVME SSD -- Read: 1000MB/s; Write: 550MB/s