OBS

[Meatball the man]

so currently i got a i5 3570 a gt 730 and 8 gigs of ram what upgrade would be nessasary to get obs to work good

 

[JamesTheFolf]

Just now, Meatball the man said:

so currently i got a i5 3570 a gt 730 and 8 gigs of ram what upgrade would be nessasary to get obs to work good

 

Not necessarily, but you won't be able to record at 4k60. You'll have to see what works best for you pc. Cause the performance also depends on what other programs or games you have running.

[JDONKEY]

A better NVIDIA graphics card is probably your best bet. Even the old GTX 1050 can record in 1080p60 no problem because it has the separate NVENC encoder. OBS can use this encoder without impacting anything else on your graphics card due to the separate encoder. Be sure however, that the card you are getting can use NVENC. For example, if you get the GT 1030, you might think it can use NVENC, but it cannot. Look for a graphics card with GTX or RTX and it will have NVENC. If you are unsure, you can ask.

[Moonzy]

21 minutes ago, Meatball the man said:

obs to work good

your cpu and gpu are both weak

while OBS doesnt consume much cpu if you use GPU encode (which you don't have), it does need some CPU overhead to run and i've run into issues with my i5 6600 where the game wont run great if i have OBS running

 

so i suggest upgrading both

[Meatball the man]

i was thinking a i5 11400 and a gtx 780 ti

 

 

[shoutingsteve]

3 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

your cpu and gpu are both weak

while OBS doesnt consume much cpu if you use GPU encode (which you don't have), it does need some CPU overhead to run and i've run into issues with my i5 6600 where the game wont run great if i have OBS running

 

so i suggest upgrading both

I might be in the minority, but I actually choose CPU encoding.  I have a 4770k and a GTX 1070.  

[shoutingsteve]

1 minute ago, Meatball the man said:

i was thinking a i5 11400 and a gtx 780 ti

 

 

I could be wrong, but going from a 3570 cpu to a CPU that is 8 generations newer will require a lot of other new hardware.

[Moonzy]

6 minutes ago, Meatball the man said:

i was thinking a i5 11400 and a gtx 780 ti

do remember to quote when replying so we'll get a notification

 

cpu looks good buy gpu looks... old for today's standard, do you have it laying around or?

i recommend a 1660 or something, that has the newest NVENC encoder (1650 is using inferior encoder, only 1650 super or better is using NVENC Turing)

 

11400 is decent cpu

 

3 minutes ago, shoutingsteve said:

I could be wrong, but going from a 3570 cpu to a CPU that is 8 generations newer will require a lot of other new hardware.

why are you doubting yourself about this? it's very true and you know it lol

[Meatball the man]

4 minutes ago, shoutingsteve said:

I could be wrong, but going from a 3570 cpu to a CPU that is 8 generations newer will require a lot of other new hardware.

yup i got that covered

 

[Meatball the man]

3 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

do remember to quote when replying so we'll get a notification

 

cpu looks good buy gpu looks... old for today's standard, do you have it laying around or?

i recommend a 1660 or something, that has the newest NVENC encoder (1650 is using inferior encoder, only 1650 super or better is using NVENC Turing)

 

11400 is decent cpu

 

why are you doubting yourself about this? it's very true and you know it lol

i got one 

 

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, Meatball the man said:

i got one 

then sure, it's a decent upgrade to your current rig

780ti has NVENC, and it should serve you just fine for the time being