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CyberTeKk1 · March 15, 2021

Budget (including currency): 1500 USD

Country: UNITED STATES

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Some of the games I play are Fortnite, apex legends, Outward and Escape From Tarkov. I also Stream on Twitch from my PS4 and I would love to get back into gaming on pc and streaming from my pc

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):

I don't have any parts cuz I'm not sure on what I would need. my current PC is a 22 All in one touch screen it has a AMD Ryzen 3 3200 CPU and a AMD Radeon Vega 3 graphics card it can barley run games on it

Downkey · March 15, 2021

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor	$299.00 @ Best Buy
Motherboard	MSI B550-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard	$129.99 @ Newegg
Memory	Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory	$93.99 @ B&H
Storage	Kingston A2000 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$116.35 @ Amazon
Video Card	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB Founders Edition Video Card	$500.00
Case	Phanteks Eclipse P360A ATX Mid Tower Case	$69.98 @ Amazon
Power Supply	Antec Earthwatts Gold Pro 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply	$94.29 @ Amazon
Monitor	MSI Optix G241 23.8" 1920x1080 144 Hz Monitor	$189.99 @ B&H
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$1503.59
	Mail-in rebates	-$10.00
	Total	$1493.59
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-03-15 11:22 EDT-0400

Bombastinator · March 15, 2021

I understand there are three ways to stream on a pc:

off the cpu, off the gpu, or off an add on box. If you do it offf the cpu you need a bit more cpu than would normally be required for your config. If you do it off the gpu you need to specifically buy a newer Nvidia card, if you do it with an add on box there’s the cost of the add on box which may be a higher cost than a larger cpu though lately perhaps not more than the price increases for video cards.

If you get a lots-of-threads cpu you don’t need either a specific set of Nvidia cards that have nvenc or a stand alone box. If you’ve already GOT a stand alone box that will work on a PS4 OR a PC, you don’t need either for streaming (though you might for other things) the games you talked about are clock over threads apps, so a faster clock lower thread machine could work for them. These are cheaper right now because there are things they won’t run well. GPUs are just evil atm and may remain so throughout this year.