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Ideal OBS setup for my system?

Ariona
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So currently my system is made up of the following parts.

 

CPU: i5-4690K @ stock clock.

GPU: EVGA GTX 970 SC

MB: MSI Z97 G55-SLI

Os Drive: Samsung 840 Evo 120GB

Game Drive: 1TB WD Black 2014

Os: Windows 8.1 Pro (might upgrade to Windows 10 soon )

 

I have a Spare GTX 750 Ti SC from EVGA as well.

 

 

My question is what would be the idea streaming setup with this system? Quick sync? CPU? GPU?  Can I setup a stream or recording in OBS using the 750 while gaming purely on the 970?

recording and streaming bitrates would be nice as well. Recordings would be upscaled to 4K 60FPS for youtube from 1080p.

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I can't help you too much with specifics, but this is what I used when my friend wanted me to stream with him.

http://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/1262922-open-broadcaster-software

 

I also found this thing, though it seems pretty terrible.

https://obsproject.com/estimator

 

I have a 4820K and a 780Ti and could stream at 720p (downscaled [by choice] from 1080p) 60 FPS, so you should be able to handle similar loads with your setup assuming you also have at least a 4 Mb/s upload speed. I know you can set up a dedicated streaming PC, and that you can use multiple video cards in a single computer that have dedicated tasks, but I have no idea how. Sorry I couldn't help more.

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Streaming you should use a 3500 bit rate according to Twitch, which should be low enough that your CPU can handle using x264 encoding. For recording I personally use Quick Sync and just set my bit rate to 60,000 and get perfect quality.

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Streaming you should use a 3500 bit rate according to Twitch, which should be low enough that your CPU can handle using x264 encoding. For recording I personally use Quick Sync and just set my bit rate to 60,000 and get perfect quality.

Is encoding for streaming not the same as recording with OBS?.. Wouldn't I also want to use quick sync for streaming?

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Is encoding for streaming not the same as recording with OBS?.. Wouldn't I also want to use quick sync for streaming?

It is the exact same process, but x264 gives a better quality video stream than Quick Sync does at lower bit rates. You can use Quick Sync for streaming if your CPU isn't up to the task but just note that the quality won't be as good.

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It is the exact same process, but x264 gives a better quality video stream than Quick Sync does at lower bit rates. You can use Quick Sync for streaming if your CPU isn't up to the task but just note that the quality won't be as good.

Thank you and considering I've been using NVENC the last year.... I think QuickSync should be a moderate upgrade ^^

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