Can this become a streaming (recording) PC?

[Mark Kaine]

So since I'll be replacing my PSU soon I'll almost have everything to build a new PC with mostly old parts, I just need some suggestions for the missing parts, a case, a motherboard and a "streaming" / capturing card I suppose. 

 

parts I already have :

 

Bequiet pure power 500w 

MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X 6GB 

Ryzen 2200G 

2x4GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance 3000mhz 

 

 

So I'm thinking a A320, or whatever else is cheap? 

 

A really small and cheap case, if possible. 

 

A capturing card, 1440p would be nice. 

 

And maybe more RAM if needed? I think 8GB should be probably fine though? 

 

 

 

 

[kucharczykt]

1 hour ago, Mark Kaine said:

So since I'll be replacing my PSU soon I'll almost have everything to build a new PC with mostly old parts, I just need some suggestions for the missing parts, a case, a motherboard and a "streaming" / capturing card I suppose. 

 

parts I already have :

 

Bequiet pure power 500w 

MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X 6GB 

Ryzen 2200G 

2x4GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance 3000mhz 

 

 

So I'm thinking a A320, or whatever else is cheap? 

 

A really small and cheap case, if possible. 

 

A capturing card, 1440p would be nice. 

 

And maybe more RAM if needed? I think 8GB should be probably fine though? 

 

 

 

 

A320 will get the job done but it doesn't have support for 3rd gen ryzen and I don't think it can overclock. The Silverstone fara R1 is a pretty cheap case and its approved by gamers nexus. As far as a capture card goes I don't think it's nesssacary and obs will probally be just fine, I reccomended spending that money on 16 gigs of ram instead.

[Mark Kaine]

11 minutes ago, kucharczykt said:

A320 will get the job done but it doesn't have support for 3rd gen ryzen and I don't think it can overclock. The Silverstone fara R1 is a pretty cheap case and its approved by gamers nexus. As far as a capture card goes I don't think it's nesssacary and obs will probally be just fine, I reccomended spending that money on 16 gigs of ram instead.

oh right I wasn't sure I need a capture card or not... that's good, and I figured more ram couldn't hurt. Thanks. 

 

So would a B350 for example be better then? I think price differences should be minimal... I'll look for that case, I'd really like a small one so that might be tricky on the cheap.

[Mark Kaine]

24 minutes ago, kucharczykt said:

Silverstone fara R1

yeah, that looks great and not expensive... nice. 

[kucharczykt]

30 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

oh right I wasn't sure I need a capture card or not... that's good, and I figured more ram couldn't hurt. Thanks. 

 

So would a B350 for example be better then? I think price differences should be minimal... I'll look for that case, I'd really like a small one so that might be tricky on the cheap.

 

32 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

oh right I wasn't sure I need a capture card or not... that's good, and I figured more ram couldn't hurt. Thanks. 

 

So would a B350 for example be better then? I think price differences should be minimal... I'll look for that case, I'd really like a small one so that might be tricky on the cheap.

Yea b350 would be better but you would still have to upgrade when/if you upgrade your cpu to ryzen 5000 series.

[Mark Kaine]

23 minutes ago, kucharczykt said:

b350 would be better

wait, how do I get any video in without a capture card...? 

 

This might be a misunderstanding but this pc is only meant to stream / record, not playing games - it would be nice if I didn't need a capture device but as far I know motherboards don't have any inputs for video signals at all? 

 

 

 

[kucharczykt]

3 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

wait, how do I get any video in without a capture card...? 

 

This might be a misunderstanding but this pc is only meant to stream / record, not playing games - it would be nice if I didn't need a capture device but as far I know motherboards don't have any inputs for video signals at all? 

 

 

 

I'm not an expert so I don't know how it works but apps like obs use some sort of software to take what is actively being displayed on your screen were I think a capture card takes the image that is being transmitted to your moniter. Basically a capture card interacts with your gpu directly were as a software takes the image after it has been displayed to the screen.

[Mark Kaine]

7 hours ago, kucharczykt said:

I'm not an expert so I don't know how it works but apps like obs use some sort of software to take what is actively being displayed on your screen were I think a capture card takes the image that is being transmitted to your moniter. Basically a capture card interacts with your gpu directly were as a software takes the image after it has been displayed to the screen.

Right, but I looked this up, this streaming /recording pc still would not have video signal in, which it needs to record or stream anything. 

 

 

Hence a "capture card" is required I would think. 

 

Sadly this is almost a deal breaker because they're really expensive lol... I'd need to build the rest of the pc first and some time later get a capture card... 

 

 

the cheapest I'm finding for this one is 250 €. And 4k is required to record in 1440p as well. 

 

 

[kucharczykt]

10 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

Right, but I looked this up, this streaming /recording pc still would not have video signal in, which it needs to record or stream anything. 

 

 

Hence a "capture card" is required I would think. 

 

Sadly this is almost a deal breaker because they're really expensive lol... I'd need to build the rest of the pc first and some time later get a capture card... 

 

 

the cheapest I'm finding for this one is 250 €. And 4k is required to record in 1440p as well. 

 

 

Idk what your looking at but you dont need a capture card to record your screen. If you have a laptop or running desktop download obs its a free software and it records at 1080p60 or more I'm not entirely shure.

[Mark Kaine]

5 minutes ago, kucharczykt said:

Idk what your looking at but you dont need a capture card to record your screen. If you have a laptop or running desktop download obs its a free software and it records at 1080p60 or more I'm not entirely shure.

 

PC 1 (my gaming PC) 

 

--------->

 

 

PC 2 (my streaming PC) 

 

 

 

How is PC 2 going to record / stream what's happening on PC 1 without any kind of connection? 

 

And unfortunately PCs don't have any kind of video in, only out, hence a capture card is needed. 

 

 

 

[The1Dickens]

6 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

 

PC 1 (my gaming PC) 

 

--------->

 

 

PC 2 (my streaming PC) 

 

 

 

How is PC 2 going to record / stream what's happening on PC 1 without any kind of connection? 

 

And unfortunately PCs don't have any kind of video in, only out, hence a capture card is needed. 

 

 

 

One flavor of OBS uses NDITek plugin which allows you to do video over network connection. Then you don't need a capture card.

[Mark Kaine]

10 minutes ago, The1Dickens said:

One flavor of OBS uses NDITek plugin which allows you to do video over network connection. Then you don't need a capture card.

Hmm, interesting, and quality wise it should be about the same? 

 

I was thinking maybe one of those camera hdmi - USB adapter thingies would work too? They're much cheaper than a capturing card. 

[The1Dickens]

11 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

Hmm, interesting, and quality wise it should be about the same? 

 

I was thinking maybe one of those camera hdmi - USB adapter thingies would work too? They're much cheaper than a capturing card. 

It should be. It's free to try, so you can test it and see if it works to your liking.