Second Streaming PC, Xeon CPU vs Ryzen!

[Kooyox]

What do you guys think about using a Xeon E5-2680 for a second streaming rig. Its $50 on ebay vs The Ryzen 5 2600x @ $179 on newegg (USD) I'm not quite sure how the Xeon would preform on x264. Some insight would be helpful. Thanks!

[LukeSavenije]

why x264 and not use your current machine with quicksync, nvenc or amd's equivalent?

 

1600 is currently around 110, 2600 is currently around 140

[Kooyox]

13 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

why x264 and not use your current machine with quicksync, nvenc or amd's equivalent?

 

1600 is currently around 110, 2600 is currently around 140

Well my second PC only has a gtx970, its OK i suppose but i'm trying to get better.

[TheKDub]

10 minutes ago, Kooyox said:

What do you guys think about using a Xeon E5-2680 for a second streaming rig. Its $50 on ebay vs The Ryzen 5 2600x @ $179 on newegg (USD) I'm not quite sure how the Xeon would preform on x264. Some insight would be helpful. Thanks!

The R5 2600X is better than an i5 8400 and the i7 7700K in H264 encoding (X264 is just an open source H264 encoder)

 

I'm not too sure on how the E5-2680 performs in respect to those, however I wouldn't be surprised if the R5 2600X outperforms the Xeon.

 

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Xeon-E5-2680-v2-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-2600X/m17083vs3956
Generally speaking, you'd be looking at around a 50% single core performance increase and nearly a 200% multi core performance increase with the 2600X over the E5-2680.

[Slayer3032]

Do you already have the board for the E5-2680? I wouldn't bother unless you're going to utilize the hardware when you're not streaming by turning it into a NAS/home server of some sort as well.

 

You can get whole SFF prebuilts for like $100 locally, or for a premium just order off ebay. If it ends up not being worthwhile, should be a fairly easy flip. The deals aren't that strong right now but sometimes there's great deals on Ivy Bridge and newer systems.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-OptiPlex-9020-SFF-Intel-Core-i7-4770-8-GB-RAM-NO-HDD-W/283521836533

 

No idea what makes a good dedicated streaming pc though but Twitch's maximum quality is insanely low so I don't imagine it would have any issues as long as it's not being choked by a game on the same system.

[LukeSavenije]

1 hour ago, Kooyox said:

Well my second PC only has a gtx970, its OK i suppose but i'm trying to get better.

i mean... that does support nvenc

 

1 hour ago, TheKDub said:

The R5 2600X is better than an i5 8400 and the i7 7700K in H264 encoding

tho an 8400 and 7700k can use quicksync

 

tho I'd still recommend trying nvenc first, most people don't need more, except if you're professionally streaming

[Kooyox]

9 hours ago, LukeSavenije said:

i mean... that does support nvenc

 

tho an 8400 and 7700k can use quicksync

 

tho I'd still recommend trying nvenc first, most people don't need more, except if you're professionally streaming

I've already invested quite a bit, i'm just not liking the quality i get from Nvenc, at times it seems a bit choppy. the 970 does 1080p 60fps just fine other than that slight bit of tear. I'm attempting to stream professionally for Classic WoW lol. Being that it's the streaming PC i just need a good CPU for x264 that isn't going to drain the bank. 

[bluebuffalo831]

Go with a Ryzen 5 2600 it wont break the bank and its a good cpu

[LukeSavenije]

49 minutes ago, bluebuffalo831 said:

Go with a Ryzen 5 2600 it wont break the bank and its a good cpu

or the 1600 for even more money saved