Streaming PC

[KrutoyEegrok]

I watch a lot of twitch.tv. Once I build my pc which will be in a few weeks, I might start streaming. I have noticed that quite a few people have a streaming pc in addition to their gaming pc. Can someone please explain the whole process of this to me?

[Wferr]

it separates the Computing and the CPU demanding part of streaming to a different machine that has a capture card to make it faster to stream/record.

So you would have to have another PC with a capture card and good encoding capability on the CPU.

[SAV1OUR]

I watch a lot of twitch.tv. Once I build my pc which will be in a few weeks, I might start streaming. I have noticed that quite a few people have a streaming pc in addition to their gaming pc. Can someone please explain the whole process of this to me?

streaming puts a allot of stress on your cpu so that can effect gaming, having a second pc just makes it easier and more reliable 

[bobhays]

Don't wanna take over the topic but was wondering how would a separate pc be hooked up to the gaming pc to stream? does the video go through a capture card on the second one first and then go to the monitor?

[AustinTheIntern]

Don't wanna take over the topic but was wondering how would a separate pc be hooked up to the gaming pc to stream? does the video go through a capture card on the second one first and then go to the monitor?

The capture card from your streaming PC would be capturing from your gaming pc+streaming online. The video goes from your gaming pc to the streaming pc through an hdmi cable into the input for your capture card

[Strider]

Yeah, this is what I just started doing. I use the AverMedia Live Gamer HD, fantastic card. Allowing me to offload all my streaming and capture needs to a secondary PC.

To be honest, most high end systems today can handle streaming pretty easily, but it's still nice to offload and know you're not taking any performance hits and it gives you better control over your stream in real time. It also makes benchmarking a lot easier obviously, I was even thinking of giving the AverMedia Live Gamer Portable a try for on the go capture needs.

Anyway, all you do is run an HDMI cable from your PC's video card, to the HDMI input on the capture card/device, then HDMI back to your display. As well as audio pass-through if needed. It's not hard to setup at all. There are many tutorials online to assist you.

[KrutoyEegrok]

Don't wanna take over the topic but was wondering how would a separate pc be hooked up to the gaming pc to stream? does the video go through a capture card on the second one first and then go to the monitor?

this is what I wanted to know

 

Yeah, this is what I just started doing. I use the AverMedia Live Gamer HD, fantastic card. Allowing me to offload all my streaming and capture needs to a secondary PC.

To be honest, most high end systems today can handle streaming pretty easily, but it's still nice to offload and know you're not taking any performance hits and it gives you better control over your stream in real time. It also makes benchmarking a lot easier obviously, I was even thinking of giving the AverMedia Live Gamer Portable a try for on the go capture needs.

Anyway, all you do is run an HDMI cable from your PC's video card, to the HDMI input on the capture card/device, then HDMI back to your display. As well as audio pass-through if needed. It's not hard to setup at all. There are many tutorials online to assist you.

So I dont need a second pc if i have an external capture card?