Gaming and streaming PC

[Iammak27]

Hello everyone…:-)

One question.

I want to game and stream and I would like any recommendation on the configuration and I would like a 6 or 8 core and 2 core for streaming.

Any recommendation?

[SnowyMus]

Do you mean one PC for gaming and one PC dedicated for streaming? Or is this one PC doing both tasks? The topic sounds like you want the second one, but your post reads a little bit like the first.

 

Oh, and what's your budget? $1000, $1500, and $2000 can get you very different PCs. And what market? Because $2000 can get you different stuff depending on where you live.

 

 

If you mean the first one and you want a dedicated PC for JUST streaming (so this PC would just do streaming, no gaming whatsoever, and you'd use a capture card for the gaming) this is what I'd do:

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i5-10400 2.9 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($164.99 @ Best Buy) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B460M DS3H Micro ATX LGA1200 Motherboard  ($104.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4-2133 CL15 Memory  ($51.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Kingston A400 120 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($24.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: Fractal Design Core 1100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($47.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: EVGA BQ 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  ($39.88 @ Amazon) 
Total: $434.82
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-05-29 03:32 EDT-0400

 

A 6 core i5-10400 (NON-F) build is fairly inexpensive and should be plenty. Considering the maximum quality you can get out of Twitch's bitrate constraints, anything more is overkill, and anything less is a terrible value.

 

You can upgrade the storage if you want to do recording as well. If not, a single 120 GB SSD is fine.

 

Getting anything more than 8 GB of RAM for something that's not running anything except OBS is kinda pointless.

 

(Also, for PCs this cheap, honestly, you might be able to find a better deal with OEMs, but mind the specs if you do this)

 

 

I'm guessing not. In which case, again, we need a budget.

[Herman Mcpootis]

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