Streaming Gameplay from a PC

[InspectorNinja]

Wasnt actually sure if PC Gaming was the best board but its the most close to the question in my head, but was curious, how better is it to use a separate stream machine while playing on your PC? Normally I just do everything on my one computer when Im trying to stream, the only times Ive seen it be a problem were with Ground Zeroes but Ive also noticed that game uses the CPU a lot more than say Metro Last Light

[TheKDub]

A separate computer that is doing the streaming and such for you will reduce the stress on your rig, though if you have an nvidia gpu you could just stream with shadowplay, and from what I've seen, there is very very little impact on performance when using it.

 

Or if you use your rig for streaming, you will take a little bit of a performance hit, though depending on how powerful your rig is, it could range from a few fps to making whatever game you're streaming basically unplayable.