Streaming+gaming builds

Frosty! · January 9, 2019

Hey there!

I am currently looking at 2 builds I own:

i5 6500

GTX 1060 3Gb

16GB ram ddr4 2666MHz

i7 2700K

GTX 780ti 2Gb

12GB ram ddr3

When I try to game on the i5 build it obviously runs a bit smoother, but when I try to stream for example Overwatch I get a lot of spikes on the i5 build. On the i7 however things are so much smoother, it doesn't even feel like I am streaming. I get to signifcant fps drops and the stream isn't laggy at all! I have no idea what causes this, maybe because the i7 has 4 more treads, hypertreading and 2mb more L3 cache??

I am using SLOBS for streaming btw :D

If someone could help me out that would be great!

Kryptyle · January 11, 2019

On 1/9/2019 at 2:25 AM, Frosty! said:

Hey there!

I am currently looking at 2 builds I own:

i5 6500

GTX 1060 3Gb

16GB ram ddr4 2666MHz

i7 2700K

GTX 780ti 2Gb

12GB ram ddr3

When I try to game on the i5 build it obviously runs a bit smoother, but when I try to stream for example Overwatch I get a lot of spikes on the i5 build. On the i7 however things are so much smoother, it doesn't even feel like I am streaming. I get to signifcant fps drops and the stream isn't laggy at all! I have no idea what causes this, maybe because the i7 has 4 more treads, hypertreading and 2mb more L3 cache??

I am using SLOBS for streaming btw

If someone could help me out that would be great!

It is most likely the additional threads, as well as the Turbo Boost advantage, also the older chips were a little more generous in power usage and would turbo up for longer if I'm not mistaken. While it does have more L3 cache, it does have a significant bus speed disadvantage, I haven't done the calculations but I think it might just even out. I think it's likely the Turbo speed, maybe the next time you're gaming and streaming monitor what clocks each CPU is going up to and see how long they're maintaining those speeds.

Btw are you playing and streaming on the same PC at the same time? You might want to equalize all variables, are you using the same GPU? Because that will affect your results. Try using the 1060 on each CPU and check it out.