Secondary Streaming PC

[neccous]

Budget (including currency): $500 - $800

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Streamlabs and Discord

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

Hello,

This is my main build currently and i am looking to purchase a secondary pc for only my stream. I don't want to spend too much money but also want to get a good quality output. I am willing to spend about $500-$800. It will only be used for streaming purposes. Can someone here help? Also, I have posted my current build below. Also am willing to upgrade GPU in current build if that will help. The current problem I am running into is that I have been dropping below 80 frames while streaming Warzone here recently. I was always able to hit about 110 - 120 while streaming. But seems like i cant here recently.

[Moonzy]

3700x and 2070S should be able to stream locally without much impact, no 2nd system needed unless you wanna isolate both tasks, which some professional streamer find beneficial

 

What encoder are you using? The default setting is software x264 I think

You should be using nvenc

[neccous]

2 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

3700x and 2070S should be able to stream locally without much impact, no 2nd system needed unless you wanna isolate both tasks, which some professional streamer find beneficial

 

What encoder are you using? The default setting is software x264 I think

You should be using nvenc

I am on NVENC new. Using streamlabs obs. Should i be using the normal NVENC?

[Moonzy]

Just now, neccous said:

I am on NVENC new. Using streamlabs obs. Should i be using the normal NVENC?

Nah new is the one you should use

Hmm, then I have no idea, running OBS shouldn't tank performance that much unless your game is extremely CPU bound

[neccous]

1 minute ago, Moonzy said:

Nah new is the one you should use

Hmm, then I have no idea, running OBS shouldn't tank performance that much unless your game is extremely CPU bound

When i looked at the performance. The GPU was maxing out at 100% and CPU was at around 65%. I have all of my setting on Call Of Duty set to the lowest settings. I'm not sure why my frames have been tanking so much.

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, neccous said:

When i looked at the performance. The GPU was maxing out at 100% and CPU was at around 65%. I have all of my setting on Call Of Duty set to the lowest settings. I'm not sure why my frames have been tanking so much.

What I can think of is allocating OBS its own 2 cores in task manager while allocating the other 6 cores to the game, this should alleviate them fighting over the dominant core and tanking the single thread performance

[neccous]

Would you mind telling me where i can adjust this at?

5 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

What I can think of is allocating OBS its own 2 cores in task manager while allocating the other 6 cores to the game, this should alleviate them fighting over the dominant core and tanking the single thread performance

 

[Moonzy]

4 minutes ago, neccous said:

Would you mind telling me where i can adjust this at?

Task manager, show advanced options, then go to Details tab and find the task you wanna change, right click it and set affinity, then pick the cores accordingly

 

Every 2 thread is a core, so if you want to allocate 2 cores to obs, you would tick 0,1,2,3 and the rest for your games and other tasks

[mockedarche]

You can use a program called process lasso and set obs to a lower priority (or cod to a higher one). As long as your don't drop frames in obs it should work perfectly (Aslong as your cpu isn't maxed it generally works out fine). Another issue is at least when I streamed having my gpu at 100% would cause dropped frames (one reason why streamers like dual pcs).

[neccous]

5 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

Task manager, show advanced options, then go to Details tab and find the task you wanna change, right click it and set affinity, then pick the cores accordingly

Every 2 thread is a core, so if you want to allocate 2 cores to obs, you would tick 0,1,2,3 and the rest for your games and other tasks

Thank you. I got them changed and will give it a shot next stream.

[Moonzy]

Just now, neccous said:

Thank you. I got them changed and will give it a shot next stream.

they reset once you restart the .exe, you'll have to re-apply it

hope this helped