$500(US) Twitch Streaming Server

ZerueLX11 · May 6, 2016

Hello!

I just wanted a few opinions on this build. This build is meant to take local streams and stream it to twitch.tv via RTMP. I went the XEON because it should do good with x264 encoding on the medium preset.

If anyone has and opinions or concerns I would like to hear!

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Electronics Wizardy · May 6, 2016

My only suggesting is to buy a xeon e3 1246 v3 and use the igpu on it instead. Its about 20 dollars more and cheaper and faster than the 610

raystriker98 · May 6, 2016

Not entirely sure about broadcasting requirements, but wouldn't a cheaper i5 with a better graphics card perform better in encoding and transcoding etc?

Eg. an i5 6500 with a R7 250X?

(I might be entirely wrong though)

Streetguru · May 6, 2016

2 hours ago, Zeruel said:

Wait how do you plan on getting the streams to the machine? The best option probably would be capture cards

and in that case, I'd say AM3+ has one more place it's actually pretty useful, as the 990FX chipset has a ton of PCI-e lane-age 4 PCI-e slots on this board, just pair it with an 8300 or something and you should be set

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1N83UE0006

ZerueLX11 · May 6, 2016

5 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Wait how do you plan on getting the streams to the machine? The best option probably would be capture cards

Im going to send a stream using Nvidia NVENC at 60Mbs to the Streaming PC so it can re-encode the stream to something twitch can handle.

Electronics Wizardy · May 6, 2016

31 minutes ago, Zeruel said:

Im going to send a stream using Nvidia NVENC at 60Mbs to the Streaming PC so it can re-encode the stream to something twitch can handle.

Why not use a lowerbit rate from nvec or use x264.

Streetguru · May 6, 2016

9 hours ago, Zeruel said:

Im going to send a stream using Nvidia NVENC at 60Mbs to the Streaming PC so it can re-encode the stream to something twitch can handle.

I wonder how good a switch/router you'll need to do that...and you might want dual gigabit on the streaming box

capture card method might be easier, not sure, kind of a crazy set up

It doesn't seem like a cheap venture to do this more properly anyways, I'm sure it's doable with lesser hardware, but here

5 PCI-e slots, 40 lane CPU, dual gigabit, and plenty O RAM, maybe just get together, sign a waiver to split the hardware if you ever break up, have like a person each buy 1 part of it?

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