upgrade Help with upgrading setup for livestreaming

[NAthan22211]

Budget (including currency): I don't have an exact number yet, but the current parts I'm looking at add up to about 4-500 USD at the time of posting, might shoot for under 600 USD

Country: USA,

Games, programs, or workloads that it will be used for: Livestraming and school mostly, I'm looking to stream Minecraft with shaders and with vivecraft occasionally (if that mod doesn't hard crash my PC) but have been looking into streaming phasmophopia, No Man's Sky, and Bone lab when I get the last one. but my network is only good enough to do it at 720p for output to both Twitch and Youtube with current encoding capability(I'm still using VDSL from AT&T XD)

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 currently have an r5 3600x for a CPU, rx5600xt for a GPU, and 16GB of DDR4 & 3200 MHz on an MSI b450 a pro max motherboard (so up to 5th gen ryzen should work here). I have all the needed peripherals as is. I usually play at 1080p but I also use Immersed for 2 extra 1440p monitors that only I can see. (I might get a dummy plug to replace my current monitor TBH, I always leave my tower on)

 

I'm currently looking at an r7 5700x, which was 178 USD when I posted this, a rx7600xt that is renewed for about 300 USD, and a 700W PSU which is about 90 USD.

 

I'm not too sure about the GPU yet because I want something with AV1 encoding to get a better stream output, but most of those cards are from Intel which I don't think work for SteamVR yet, and I know that a multi-GPU setup might be feasible, but that isn't supported by virtual desktop, what I use for VR, at all, so it'll probably need to be an AMD or Nvidia card.

 

The buying timeframe will probably vary by part, but it will probably be before December 7th

 

feel free to recommend a different CPU if need be, as my current one holds up pretty well with the stock cooler till I stress test it with prime95.

[Why_Me]

5700X + 32GB DDR4 3200 + Deepcool AK 400 CPU cooler

[GOTSpectrum]

I saw wait for black friday/cyber monday 

[SorryBella]

5 hours ago, GOTSpectrum said:

I saw wait for black friday/cyber monday 

8 hours ago, NAthan22211 said:

but it will probably be before December 7th

Yep, i agreed to shift your timeline a month backward. November 24th is the day. 

 

8 hours ago, NAthan22211 said:

but my network is only good enough to do it at 720p for output to both Twitch and Youtube with current encoding capability(I'm still using VDSL from AT&T XD)

Youll want AV1 to cut the bitrate and thus upload bandwidth requirement. Thats it thats the post i could give right now, market will shift by the time Black Friday is about to start, so... See you in atleast November 20th-22nd, you can ping me if you decided to remake the thread at that time.

 

[NAthan22211]

Apologies that I didn't see anyone reply but for some reason, it wasn't sending responses to my email 

20 hours ago, Why_Me said:

5700X + 32GB DDR4 3200 + Deepcool AK 400 CPU cooler

 

 

 

Apart from perhaps Bonelab, or some other games I can think of to stream that are rather heavy. I haven't really had a need for 32gb of RAM for my setup, even streaming TNP Limitless 6, which recommends about 8-12 GB was doable but that mod pack has a lot of world gen lag to it.

13 hours ago, SorryBella said:

Yep, i agreed to shift your timeline a month backward. November 24th is the day. 

 

Youll want AV1 to cut the bitrate and thus upload bandwidth requirement. Thats it thats the post i could give right now, market will shift by the time Black Friday is about to start, so... See you in atleast November 20th-22nd, you can ping me if you decided to remake the thread at that time.

 

 

 

 

I don't suppose AMD has an AV1-capable card? Like I said I don't think intel cards work with Steam VR yet and virtual desktop might behave weirdly if I use more than 1 GPU, as it mentions only supporting single GPU setups. EDIT: the 7000 series does apparently so I'll look into that a bit

Edited October 22, 2023 by NAthan22211
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[SorryBella]

4 minutes ago, NAthan22211 said:

I don't suppose AMD has an AV1-capable card?

They do. Its just that when EposVox released that video, OBS only has Intel implementation. The big 3 implementation of AV1 should be available in OBS Studio now, but idk on Streamlabs as OBS has cut ties with them.

[NAthan22211]

4 hours ago, SorryBella said:

They do. Its just that when EposVox released that video, OBS only has Intel implementation. The big 3 implementation of AV1 should be available in OBS Studio now, but idk on Streamlabs as OBS has cut ties with them.

 

I don't use streamlabs thankfully