the best capture card under £80

[MrJarhead]

Im looking for a capture card for my streaming pc, however i dont want to spend a stupid amount on one just because it does 1080p60fps.

 

im looking for something between £60-£80 (in usd would be 80-100 bucks)

 

thanks.

[emmettontheweb]

This capture card can capture 720p 60fps and because you will presumably only be streaming at 720p this capture card should work great! And it can can capture 1080p 30fps as well.

[MrJarhead]

Just now, emmettontheweb said:

This capture card can capture 720p 60fps and because you will presumably only be streaming at 720p this capture card should work great! And it can can capture 1080p 30fps as well.

i was looking at this but wasnt sure, thanks for the help, il probably do 720p60fps tbh.

[emmettontheweb]

2 minutes ago, MrJarhead said:

i was looking at this but wasnt sure, thanks for the help, il probably do 720p60fps tbh.

Okay cool. It's surprising how expensive hdmi capture cards have become. I remember them being cheaping but I could be wrong. Elgato sells their HD60 s for £160 and $150 USD! 

[MrJarhead]

Just now, emmettontheweb said:

Okay cool. It's surprising how expensive hdmi capture cards have become. I remember them being cheaping but I could be wrong. Elgato sells their HD60 s for £160 and $150 USD! 

thats what i mean its crazy.

[emmettontheweb]

yeah  

[mariushm]

I realize it's outside the budget but I think it's worth mentioning.

 

If you really want highest quality, you could hit eBay and get an Epiphan HDMI-2-PCIe card for around 160$ to 200$ :

version 3: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Epiphan-HDMI2PCIE-V3-Video-Capture-Card-/401218945891?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368 or  http://www.ebay.com/itm/Epiphan-HDMI2PCIe-Version-3-Video-Capture-Card-/252418629148?

version 2: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Epiphan-HDMI2PCIe-Version-2-Video-Capture-Card-/262476034095

 

Updated versions of these are sold by Epiphan as DVI2PCIe for around 1200$ and capture RAW up to 1920x1200 at 60fps (higher at lower fps) :  https://www.epiphan.com/products/dvi2pcie/

I can't confirm if these older models support 1080p at 60fps as well, but they will definitely support recording at 30fps or 720p / 60fps etc

 

You can use a HDMI to DVI adapter to connect a HDMI cable to the capture card, and you could for example configure your video card to clone the first monitor to your second HDMI / DVI output and feed that into the video card.

 

PS. The avermedia card that was linked above has a hardware encoder on it, so what's transferred to your computer is an already compressed stream. The driver would decode the stream and feed it to applications.

So if you use OBS or some software to overlay text or crap over the image, you'll probably already get image with poor quality (artifacts due to being already compressed) and then OBS would recompress it before streaming to Twitch or other services.

A PCI-e x1 slot is basically not enough to capture 1080p raw .. 1920x1080x3 = 6 MB/s ... x 60 fps = 355 MB/s .. pci-e x1 could be as low as 250 MB/s

 

Higher end cards capture and send the data RAW, that's why they have x4 connections.

[MrJarhead]

1 minute ago, mariushm said:

I realize it's outside the budget but I think it's worth mentioning.

 

If you really want highest quality, you could hit eBay and get an Epiphan HDMI-2-PCIe card for around 160$ to 200$ :

version 3: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Epiphan-HDMI2PCIE-V3-Video-Capture-Card-/401218945891?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368 or  http://www.ebay.com/itm/Epiphan-HDMI2PCIe-Version-3-Video-Capture-Card-/252418629148?

version 2: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Epiphan-HDMI2PCIe-Version-2-Video-Capture-Card-/262476034095

 

Updated versions of these are sold by Epiphan as DVI2PCIe for around 1200$ and capture RAW up to 1920x1200 at 60fps (higher at lower fps) :  https://www.epiphan.com/products/dvi2pcie/

I can't confirm if these older models support 1080p at 60fps as well, but they will definitely support recording at 30fps or 720p / 60fps etc

 

You can use a HDMI to DVI adapter to connect a HDMI cable to the capture card, and you could for example configure your video card to clone the first monitor to your second HDMI / DVI output and feed that into the video card.

 

way out of budget mate but thanks for the shout.