Upgrade current streaming PC or build a Secondary?

[r0b0tn1k]

Hello! I currently use my PC to stream on twitch, however she's getting to be almost 2 years old now. I'm in the US and I have roughly $300-$400 to work with, although it's gonna be a bit of a stretch to hit that $400 mark. I can tell that things are getting to a point where an upgrade of some kind is necessary to keep up with the increasing load gaming and streaming puts on my PC. I'm faced with two choices: either upgrade my current PC (which I'm not exactly sure what to upgrade, although I suspect the CPU would be the most needed), or build/find a second PC to offload the stress of streaming onto through my elgato capture card, leaving my main PC to only have to worry about handling the games I play. I'm at work when making this, so I don't have an exact parts list, but below is a general idea of what my gaming PC is off the top of my head:

Intel i-5 CPU

GTX 1060 ti GPU

16 gb DDR 4 RAM

750 GB hard drive space between two mechanical hard drives internally.

750 GB hard drive space externally.

 

If anyone needs more information, I can provide more when I get home, just request it. The goal I'm trying to reach is finding the cheapest option of the two listed above. I've been thinking about upgrading to an i7, but I'm not sure if that's really the place where I'd run into slowdowns or if it could be my graphics card is out of date. Possibly more RAM could be good too, but I'm just not sure. Also any other suggestions outside of my two options above that could be cheaper would be most welcome.

 

I've only built two PCs so far and my first one was a modified prebuilt. I'm learning constantly but there's so much I feel like I still don't know. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[Akira Shimazu]

your good to go. just get SSD. what i5?

[r0b0tn1k]

1 minute ago, Wolfycapt said:

your good to go. just get SSD. what i5?

I'll have to wait till I get off work to confirm that. I'm already streaming however, I just want to avoid choppiness as I start getting into more graphically intensive games as time goes on. I'm already starting to see it in stuff like Destiny 2 which isn't even that relatively new, although I haven't had many problems with other titles that are less intensive.

[Fasauceome]

20 minutes ago, r0b0tn1k said:

If anyone needs more information, I can provide more when I get home

once you do, make a pcpartpicker.com list and share the permalink so we can see a full spec list, then we know what we're working with.

[r0b0tn1k]

28 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

once you do, make a pcpartpicker.com list and share the permalink so we can see a full spec list, then we know what we're working with.

Will do, apologies for not having that up front and the slow replies while I'm at work.