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Hello everyone I hope you are all good. So I could use some help.

At the moment I'm playing on my PS5 and recording gameplay with my acer laptop using a razer ripsaw HD capture card.

The laptop has an Intel i5 inside (5years old) and a nvidia 945M. And so I only can record in 720p because my laptop is already at the limit.

 

Now I wanted to build a PC soon with the following parts:

 

CPU: ryzen 7 5800 or Intel i7 10700K (depends on the price when I decide to order.

GPU: RTX 3070 (or new radeon if better pricing)

Motherboard: depending on the CPU, I'm open for tips

PSU: 850W 80+Gold by corsair

RAM: 32GB 3200 or 3600 corsair vengance

Storage: 1TB samsung m.2 SSD + 3 TB seagate barracuda HDD

Case: Corsair 4000x rgb (not 100% sure about the name)

Cooling: corsair icue capellix 240mm aio + 1 extra corsair fan for the rear exhaust

This is going to be a complete white build (except the Motherboard)

 

Now the actual question:

The PC is going to be used for Recording/Streaming/gaming.

But at the moment I will not pay 1000$+ for an 3070 so I wanted to ask you guys if you think that if I buy an used gtx 970 for about 150$, will it be enough to record gameplay from my PS5 in 1080p? Or do you recommend any other used gpu for max 200$?

I just wanted to improve the quality of the content I'm making, so I was thinking maybe at the moment I could buy an old gpu for recording and editing and when the prices are  normal again I will upgrade to the 3070.

 

Thanks for your help 🙂

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That will be enough - the 970 is still a very powerful 1080p card.

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Welcome to the form!

 

I suggest going with AMD and for the MB there are a lot of options I will just write some 

1-MSI b550 gaming edge wifi or go with the none wifi 

2-MSI mag b550 tomahawk  

3- ASUS ROG STRIX b550-f gaming 

 

and for the rest of the components they seem just fine to me 

for the gpu a 970 is still capable for 1080p although if you can find a used 1660s for 150$ that will be great. 

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11 minutes ago, Omar.B said:

Welcome to the form!

 

I suggest going with AMD and for the MB there are a lot of options I will just write some 

1-MSI b550 gaming edge wifi or go with the none wifi 

2-MSI mag b550 tomahawk  

3- ASUS ROG STRIX b550-f gaming 

 

and for the rest of the components they seem just fine to me 

for the gpu a 970 is still capable for 1080p although if you can find a used 1660s for 150$ that will be great. 

Thank you so much for the tips.

 

So I will see if I can get an 1660 maybe. And for recording external gameplay the 970 is fine you think? (sorry if you already answered this, but english is not my nativ language so I'm afraid of understanding something wrong.)

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2 minutes ago, Capunator said:

Thank you so much for the tips.

 

So I will see if I can get an 1660 maybe. And for recording external gameplay the 970 is fine you think? (sorry if you already answered this, but english is not my nativ language so I'm afraid of understanding something wrong.)

I suggest the 1660 super because its capable of streaming and stuff  , if you are going with the 970 you might need a capture card not sure although 

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13 minutes ago, Omar.B said:

I suggest the 1660 super because its capable of streaming and stuff  , if you are going with the 970 you might need a capture card not sure although 

That's the point. I already have a capture card and my PS5. So in the first place I am just searching for an GPU that can handle it.

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