Need Help Checking My Streaming Specs.

[Deety]

I am trying to stream games off my pc on twitch with my current setup on streamlabs but I am not entirely sure what it can handle.

 

Specs: 

-CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700x

-RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz

-PSU: GIGABYTE GP-G750H 750W 80 PLUS Gold Certified

-MOBO: ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VII HERO Socket AM4 AMD X470 Chipset

-GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING X 6GB 

- SSD: WD Blue™ 3D NAND SATAIII SSD

- M.2: 980 evo 1TB

 

Network Speed test:

Down: 926 mbps

Up: 940 mbps

 

Could someone please help me figure out what stream quality I should be able to produce on games like New world, F12021, Escape From Tarkov etc.

[AKS_Adrian]

I think OBS has an auto configuration utility that tests your bandwidth and such and applies settings accordingly. 

[HQuan]

Furmark, CPU-Z, CineBench, this triple-bo will test your system. Higher score -> better performance.

 

 

[HQuan]

Also, I recommend you to install a 4TB or 2TB HDD, to store thing, you know, as a streamer, you gonna need lotta space to store video.

[LogicalDrm]

You should be able to do 1080p60 fine. But do run some tests with it. There are always oddities with these things. Twitch max bitrate for non-partner is 6000kbps, YouTube limit is 10000kbps.

[whm1974]

13 hours ago, HQuan said:

Also, I recommend you to install a 4TB or 2TB HDD, to store thing, you know, as a streamer, you gonna need lotta space to store video.

Agreed. SSDs may wear quickly with Streamers. Faster then normal everyday use.

[HQuan]

Just now, whm1974 said:

Agreed. SSDs may wear quickly with Streamers. Faster then normal everyday use.

Some folks say HDD fall more often and lost their data, but... my hard drive didn't corrupt any bit of data since 2010! SSD corrupt data even you just put it not powered for half a years. That's the reason my boot drive is a 7200RPM 1TB 64MB cache hard drive.

 

[AbydosOne]

13 hours ago, HQuan said:

Also, I recommend you to install a 4TB or 2TB HDD, to store thing, you know, as a streamer, you gonna need lotta space to store video.

13 minutes ago, whm1974 said:

Agreed. SSDs may wear quickly with Streamers. Faster then normal everyday use.

SSDs are rated for much more write endurance than even heavy video recording could reasonably hit. Furthermore, that number is only for warrantee coverage; most drives can far exceed that given number. The only reason to use an HDD over an SSD for storage is simply the price/capacity ratio.

 

9 minutes ago, HQuan said:

Some folks say HDD fall more often and lost their data, but... my hard drive didn't corrupt any bit of data since 2010! SSD corrupt data even you just put it not powered for half a years. That's the reason my boot drive is a 7200RPM 1TB 64MB cache hard drive.

You contradict yourself: SSDs may corrupt data after prolonged off periods, but most boot drives don't sit powered off for years on end. There's essentially zero risk of boot drive corruption. You really should re-evaluate your prejudice towards SSDs, they make computing substantially better than any HDD you could be booting from.

 

[whm1974]

56 minutes ago, AbydosOne said:

You contradict yourself: SSDs may corrupt data after prolonged off periods, but most boot drives don't sit powered off for years on end. There's essentially zero risk of boot drive corruption. You really should re-evaluate your prejudice towards SSDs, they make computing substantially better than any HDD you could be booting from.

There is no way I'm going back to HDDs for Booting. Even Applications and files load faster. I wish I had one for my Thinkpad. I even boot from a LiveUSB when using it.

[Mark Kaine]

On 12/28/2021 at 4:07 AM, HQuan said:

Also, I recommend you to install a 4TB or 2TB HDD, to store thing, you know, as a streamer, you gonna need lotta space to store video.

One point of streaming is that you don't need a lot of storage because its saved elsewhere,  also it typically doesn't use the hard-drive much if at all, again thats kind of the point, you stream through your gpu or cpu, without storing anything on the hard-drive (there might be a cache used but that wouldn't typically use a lot of storage)

 

 

 

 

 

On 12/28/2021 at 10:50 AM, LogicalDrm said:

You should be able to do 1080p60 fine. But do run some tests with it. There are always oddities with these things. Twitch max bitrate for non-partner is 6000kbps, YouTube limit is 10000kbps.

yeap, i think op should be fine at 1080p/60, might need to lower it to 720p for super demanding games, but the hardware seems pretty good.

The limits keep taking me offguard lol, its actually 9000kbps for 1080p60 (and yeah, i know there's some headroom)

Twice for 1440p60, which is what i usually stream at.

 

 

On 12/28/2021 at 3:03 AM, Deety said:

I am trying to stream games off my pc on twitch with my current setup on streamlabs but I am not entirely sure what it can handle.

As said above i think you should be fine,  maybe have to play around with bitrates a bit, around 4-6000kbps might be good enough depending on content?

 

And i would advise against SLOBS, i tried that, its somehow sluggish and performs worse than the real OBS, but you can try it out of course, just saying... I'd save me the trouble and go to OBS straight.

[HQuan]

@Mark KaineThen where to store video when he/she want to store it and upload to somewhere else other?

[Mark Kaine]

16 minutes ago, HQuan said:

Then where to store video when he/she want to store it and upload to somewhere else other?

streaming =/= recording, so you dont need big storage like you said.

if someone wants to do both this is a much bigger strain on the hardware, and its not what has been asked, they just asked for streaming (which is different from recording)

[HQuan]

56 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

streaming =/= recording, so you dont need big storage like you said.

if someone wants to do both this is a much bigger strain on the hardware, and its not what has been asked, they just asked for streaming (which is different from recording)

I said again, Then where to store video when he/she want to store it and upload to somewhere else other?

It not simply you just copy a link and post it somewhere else. And speak about reliablity of the hard drive of the stream's server, I can't even think it can store my video over 5 years.

[LogicalDrm]

15 hours ago, HQuan said:

Then where to store video when he/she want to store it and upload to somewhere else other?

YouTube can be connected to Twitch for direct archiving. So this is only you, and possibly not something OP is even interested in (they haven't replied so arguing about this is rather pointless).

[HQuan]

54 minutes ago, LogicalDrm said:

YouTube can be connected to Twitch for direct archiving. So this is only you, and possibly not something OP is even interested in (they haven't replied so arguing about this is rather pointless).

Ok thanks for this valuble information!
 

 

OP, i'm quit.