Recommend Me A PC

[hockaday1996]

Hi People,

So I'm new to the site but I've seen some very helpful info on here and I need help. 

Recently I bought a pretty good Dell laptop in my opinion. It has an i7, 12G of Ram, 1TB HD, and 256GB SDD.

I was hoping to use this PC to use an Elgato and a PS4 to record and also live stream with OBS 

Well, after many tests, I've realized it's not working too well. I can record with great bitrates and I can live stream with great bitrates as well. The problem is when live streaming I believe the Laptop gets too hot and after about 20min it begins to lag really bad and I have constant disconnections to Youtube server. My internet connection is good. 80mbps download speed. 90mbps upload.

So basically...I was hoping you guys could recommend me a good Desktop PC for recording, live streaming, and editing game play. I don't really need a gaming PC because I will always be using a console. But it does need to be able to capture from elgato on obs and record/livestream fluidly. Thanks guys. 

As for price, I was hoping to keep it at $1,500 or less.

[AirSocial]

Actually I am doing a project trying to make a streaming PC for the same use except to record/stream my main PC. Too keep it under $250, I would say buy a used old office prebuilt and put something like a gtx 1050 or gt 1030. That was do fine. Your laptop might have an older gen i7 or the cooling on it is just bad.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Compaq-Elite-8300-Desktop-PC-Quad-Core-i5-3470-3-20GHz-4GB-RAM-500GB-HDD/163494033426?hash=item261100f812:g:F1cAAOSwEKxcRmmL:rk:1:pf:0 something like that would be perfect, just upgrade the ram and harddrive if you need a bigger one, and possible add a ssd. Then just get either a gt 1030 for around $80 or a gtx 1050 for around $130 and you should be golden. No need for $1,500 for just streaming.

[AirSocial]

As you can see below that PC's processor is not bad at all compared to my brand new i3

Only that full system is the same price as just the processor I have lol

[Guest]

You could get a ryzen 7 & gtx 1070. That should be about 1500 USD. Depending on what you have, get & deals/used offerings.