streaming pc FIRST GAMING/STREAMING RIG!!!

[Stv]

Hey everyone, this is my first ever gaming/streaming rig!! I’m obviously very excited, but I wanted to ask for any advice you veterans are willing to share with me in reguards to my rig. I’ll be using it to stream my podcast as well as all sorts of games (BFV, BLOPS, Dragon Age, GTA, Portal 2), so any comments or suggestions you may have on the CPU, GPU, Processor, Motherboard, storage, etc. would help me a lot.

 

My PC:

 

CASE: Phanteks Evolv ATX Mid-Tower Gaming Case

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7GHz [4.3GHz Turbo] Eight-Core 20MB Cache

 

VIDEO: GeForce® RTX 2060 6GB GDDR6

 

MOTHERBOARD: ASUS Prime X470-Pro AM4 ATX w/ RGB, USB 3.1, Realtek LAN, 2 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 6 SATA3, 2 M.2 SATA/PCIe

 

MEMORY: 16GB (8GBx2) DDR4/3000MHz Dual Channel Memory (ADATA XPG Z1)

 

HDD: 1TB WD Blue SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 7200 RPM HDD

 

I also have a usb 3.1 500gb Samsung T5 portable SSD. And the monitor I’ll be using is the ASUS MG28UQ 4K/UHD 28in w/FreeSync (whatever that means). Haha

 

I put this build together with my limited knowledge of gaming computers, so I’d love your input.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Slottr]

Get a sata ssd

 

Fair warning though, you can't expect the 2060 to push out good frames at 4k

 

All else looks fine

[Crunchy Dragon]

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[TopHatProductions115]

RTX cards have NVENC, which is a boon for x264 encode (in comparison to past iterations) from what I've been hearing as of late:

In addition to this, your CPU should have more than enough cores to handle software encoding if necessary  

• https://www.anandtech.com/show/12625/amd-second-generation-ryzen-7-2700x-2700-ryzen-5-2600x-2600/12

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, TopHatProductions115 said:

In addition to this, your CPU should have more than enough cores to handle software encoding if necessary  

• https://www.anandtech.com/show/12625/amd-second-generation-ryzen-7-2700x-2700-ryzen-5-2600x-2600/12

My 1600 can handle gaming and streaming on x264 pretty well.

[Stv]

14 minutes ago, Slottr said:

Get a sata ssd

 

Fair warning though, you can't expect the 2060 to push out good frames at 4k

 

All else looks fine

I don’t care if it’s pushing out 4K. That’s just the monitor I had... is it going to affect it if I’m playing on 1080? I’m not sure how that works. 

 

Also so would you suggest a 1080 monitor or getting a different Card? And which one respectively?

 

Thanks again!

[Stv]

11 minutes ago, PacketMan said:

I'd probably go for a 1440p 144hz display instead of a 4K one (if you are going to get the RTX 2060), that way you can get an awesome resolution with decent fps, and SEE those extra frames per second, the RTX 2060 won't get nice fps at 4K, so...

And get any SSD for the OS and maybe a few games

Anyway, CPU good, GPU good (which model?), Motherboard good, RAM good, HDD good (if you want to stream, maybe you could consider a larger HDD (2-4TB) to store all your videos) and your Samsung T5 for backups

 

You suggest getting a different monitor over a different card? I don’t know much about this so I’m wondering if The res won’t look good on my 4K... is it because I’ll be playing in a red it’s not meant for?

[Slottr]

4 minutes ago, Stv said:

I don’t care if it’s pushing out 4K. That’s just the monitor I had... is it going to affect it if I’m playing on 1080? I’m not sure how that works. 

 

Also so would you suggest a 1080 monitor or getting a different Card? And which one respectively?

 

Thanks again!

You can play games at a 1080p/1440p resolution, I just assumed 4k because its a 4k display. 

 

If you're streaming, you'll probably want another display anyways

[Stv]

2 minutes ago, Slottr said:

You can play games at a 1080p/1440p resolution, I just assumed 4k because its a 4k display. 

 

If you're streaming, you'll probably want another display anyways

Gotcha. So the monitors 4K display won’t affect how good it will look when I’m playing it if I’m playing at 1080p or 1440? Just want to learn for future reference. What do streamers/gamers use 2nd one for (if you can give me some good practical examples). I would love to get another monitor when I have the money to. Would you be able to recommend any good ones I can take a look at for when I do. 

[Slottr]

2 minutes ago, Stv said:

Gotcha. So the monitors 4K display won’t affect how good it will look when I’m playing it if I’m playing at 1080p or 1440? Just want to learn for future reference. What do streamers/gamers use 2nd one for (if you can give me some good practical examples). I would love to get another monitor when I have the money to. Would you be able to recommend any good ones I can take a look at for when I do. 

You can see a difference for sure. You're throwing a 1920x1080 or 2560x1440 pixels on a display meant for 3840 x 2160

[Stv]

What monitor would you suggest?

also what graphics card would you suggest?

[Stv]

6 minutes ago, PacketMan said:

If you are going to stream in a regular basis I'd say go for something more powerful than the 2060, maybe a 2070 or even a 2080

If it will be something like once or twice a month then the 2060 is just fine atm

You can always take a look at benchmarks in Youtube and see which card fits your needs better

I’m planning on streaming once or twice a week. What do you think? Should I go for something better? Also what about gtx1080?