300$ Streaming PC for Twitch!?!

[LunarMagicGaming]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/VW2ZD3

 

What do you guys think?

[Zayzo]

lol

[TheSLSAMG]

If by streaming PC you mean a standby to offload streaming load from your main PC, it doesn't make a lot of sense but fine. if you mean something that will handle playing and streaming, hell no.

[JebKerman]

... well, it's all you can do really at that low a budget. But i'm not sure it it would actually cut it, and you certainly couldn't play most games at an acceptable framerate and video quality for streaming., if you wanted to put a decent one together you'd need to at least double, ideally triple, maybe even quadruple, the budget.

[Darkman]

yeah... no.... It isn't possible... Especially with all new parts. If you find used parts on a damn good sale it isn't happening.

[LunarMagicGaming]

If by streaming PC you mean a standby to offload streaming load from your main PC, it doesn't make a lot of sense but fine. if you mean something that will handle playing and streaming, hell no.

I'm talking about a pc made specifically just to stream of twitch, not to play any games

[EposVox]

... well, it's all you can do really at that low a budget. But i'm not sure it it would actually cut it, and you certainly couldn't play most games at an acceptable framerate and video quality for streaming., if you wanted to put a decent one together you'd need to at least double, ideally tripple, the budget.

 

yeah... no.... It isn't possible... Especially with all new parts. If you find used parts on a damn good sale it isn't happening.

This is for an offloading streaming PC, not the gaming rig itself. 

 

This build should be fine; as long as you have a good capture card setup, it will do most of the work. And also cost as much as this build lol

[LunarMagicGaming]

... well, it's all you can do really at that low a budget. But i'm not sure it it would actually cut it, and you certainly couldn't play most games at an acceptable framerate and video quality for streaming., if you wanted to put a decent one together you'd need to at least double, ideally triple, maybe even quadruple, the budget.

have you ever seen like a 2 pc set up where theres the streaming pc and the gaming pc on twitch? Thats what im aiming for. I could go up to 500 if i need to i just saw this build and it has a decent passmark score

[Darkman]

This is for an offloading streaming PC, not the gaming rig itself. 

 

This build should be fine; as long as you have a good capture card setup, it will do most of the work. And also cost as much as this build lol

Ah makes much more sense then.

[JebKerman]

have you ever seen like a 2 pc set up where theres the streaming pc and the gaming pc on twitch? Thats what im aiming for. I could go up to 500 if i need to i just saw this build and it has a decent passmark score

oh ok then, well then, this would probably be capable of doing it, i don't know much about systems like that, but now the budget makes sense.

[LunarMagicGaming]

This is for an offloading streaming PC, not the gaming rig itself. 

 

This build should be fine; as long as you have a good capture card setup, it will do most of the work. And also cost as much as this build lol

I have an avermedia live gamer hd capture card. Essencially Ill have an ssd for a boot drive, and a hard drive to dump raw footage on you. I wanna be able to stream at at least 720p 30 fps

[MDPS]

I'm talking about a pc made specifically just to stream of twitch, not to play any games

 

have you ever seen like a 2 pc set up where theres the streaming pc and the gaming pc on twitch? Thats what im aiming for. I could go up to 500 if i need to i just saw this build and it has a decent passmark score

You don't seem to understand. Gaming isn't the only thing that uses lots of computing power. Let me put this into perspective:

With a simple $300 office-grade computer, you expect to capture video at a stable framerate off of it, render it in realtime, transmit it to a server, and display it for the world to see. It takes power to do that, and that's exactly what this build doesn't have. Sorry bro, but unless you have something like a $800 budget you won't be getting any good streaming quality.

[byalexandr]

Pfft...

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: AMD 3850 1.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($30.95 @ SuperBiiz) 

Motherboard: ASRock AM1B-M Micro ATX AM1 Motherboard  ($24.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($20.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Storage: Crucial V4 32GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($35.95 @ Amazon) 

Case: Apex TX-381 MicroATX Mid Tower Case w/300W Power Supply  ($26.99 @ Directron) 

Total: $139.87

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-13 00:09 EDT-0400

 

And it still has an SSD.

[MDPS]

You don't seem to understand. Gaming isn't the only thing that uses lots of computing power. Let me put this into perspective:

With a simple $300 office-grade computer, you expect to capture video at a stable framerate off of it, render it in realtime, transmit it to a server, and display it for the world to see. It takes power to do that, and that's exactly what this build doesn't have. Sorry bro, but unless you have something like a $800 budget you won't be getting any good streaming quality.

*CORRECTION: It can stream yes but bad quality to clarify.

[MDPS]

 

Pfft...

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: AMD 3850 1.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($30.95 @ SuperBiiz) 

Motherboard: ASRock AM1B-M Micro ATX AM1 Motherboard  ($24.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($20.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Storage: Crucial V4 32GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($35.95 @ Amazon) 

Case: Apex TX-381 MicroATX Mid Tower Case w/300W Power Supply  ($26.99 @ Directron) 

Total: $139.87

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-13 00:09 EDT-0400

 

And it still has an SSD.

 

You forgot the OS...if that thing can handle one above xp 0_0

[MatthewEnderle]

And it still has an SSD.

 

 

barely. Windows takes up 90% of it

[LunarMagicGaming]

*CORRECTION: It can stream yes but bad quality to clarify.

Well I have the ssd with the os, what can you do with less than 500$?

[byalexandr]

barely. Windows takes up 90% of it

Well if it's just for streaming then it's fine. And if someone starts streaming you can boot in a few seconds and fire up Twitch .

[Embattled]

 

Pfft...

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: AMD 3850 1.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($30.95 @ SuperBiiz) 

Motherboard: ASRock AM1B-M Micro ATX AM1 Motherboard  ($24.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($20.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Storage: Crucial V4 32GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($35.95 @ Amazon) 

Case: Apex TX-381 MicroATX Mid Tower Case w/300W Power Supply  ($26.99 @ Directron) 

Total: $139.87

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-13 00:09 EDT-0400

 

And it still has an SSD.

 

 

 

You forgot the OS...if that thing can handle one above xp 0_0

Forget the OS or CPU, with that power supply your computer is going to blow up before you even get to AMERICAN MEGATRENDS.

[byalexandr]

You forgot the OS...if that thing can handle one above xp 0_0

Linux is a beautiful thing.

[byalexandr]

Forget the OS or CPU, with that power supply your computer is going to blow up before you even get to AMERICAN MEGATRENDS.

Hey, for $140 I think I didn't do that bad.

[LunarMagicGaming]

Well if it's just for streaming then it's fine. And if someone starts streaming you can boot in a few seconds and fire up Twitch .

Well I mean i wont be playing games on it, like i know streaming is cpu intensive but im not doing 1080p

[EposVox]

You don't seem to understand. Gaming isn't the only thing that uses lots of computing power. Let me put this into perspective:

With a simple $300 office-grade computer, you expect to capture video at a stable framerate off of it, render it in realtime, transmit it to a server, and display it for the world to see. It takes power to do that, and that's exactly what this build doesn't have. Sorry bro, but unless you have something like a $800 budget you won't be getting any good streaming quality.

I do understand. I've been working with streaming builds and putting together streaming rigs to avoid buying expensive Tricasters for years. This isn't professional streaming, they're streaming to Twitch with a basic H.264 encoding - they even said just 720p30 - with a capture card that does most of the work.

 

This build will do just fine.

[LunarMagicGaming]

I do understand. I've been working with streaming builds and putting together streaming rigs to avoid buying expensive Tricasters for years. This isn't professional streaming, they're streaming to Twitch with a basic H.264 encoding - they even said just 720p30 - with a capture card that does most of the work.

 

This build will do just fine.

Are you sure itll be enough sir? i dont mind if i need to spend a lil more on the cpu

[byalexandr]

Well I mean i wont be playing games on it, like i know streaming is cpu intensive but im not doing 1080p

I know, that's why I only went with a 32GB SSD lol.