Does i7 4770k help in streaming?

[Jayvin]

Does i7 4770k help in streaming with obs? or should I just stick with my current plan to go for the i5 4670k?

 

Thanks!

 

 

[DoubleY]

It should help quite a bit. maybe a 20-30% performance improvement. 

[Guest]

Hyperthreading doesn't really do anything with x264 encoding for streaming, so it's not worth it unless you use anything else that benefits from HT.

8350/8320 is best for streaming 

[TriBeard]

I never messed with streaming, but on my old i7 920 I didn't even notice an impact on FPS when I started in game recording. I also think the extra threads to help, but the FX series is indeed every bit as good, and sometimes better, than the 4770k in streaming.

[Faa]

I'd say get a 4670k it's much better for streaming than a 8320/8350. When you're streaming with 8350's you still have shitty frames. Anyways OBS supports Intel Quicksync that massively improves your streaming performance/quality and reduces your performance decrease by a huge margin.

Here's the review without Intel Quicksync at 16:52:

i5's are like 50% faster orsomething streaming BF4.

[LogicalDrm]

Ofc it will. More cores is better with streaming. It will mean that game performance won't be effected as much.

[TheProfosist]

A 4930K would be better as you could use process afinity to dedicate certain cores to the game and to the streaming programs. You shouldnt notice a decrease especially if you record to a different drive than the game is being played off of.

Also once again more threads are not more cores, they are more threads.