Streaming for Fun

[Beastattack]

Hello, I am interested in sometimes streaming games (PUBG, CS:GO, Rocket League, Dead by Daylight, Golf with your Friends) just for fun and for my friends to watch. I also play some games off stream like GTA 5 and Shadow of Mordor to name a few. I play at 1080p 144hz with a MSI GTX 970 and an i5 4460 right now. I know there are a lot of posts of how the R7 1700 is perfect for streaming, but in my scenario, will the 7700k do the trick in streaming these smaller games and giving me good FPS when I'm not streaming? Which would be better, I have not purchased either and completely unbiased. EDIT: I'd also be overclocking in either case.

[Gungpae]

Honestly, ryzen will give you the better performance for streaming (taking advantage of more cores/threads)

[Beastattack]

Just now, Gungpae said:

Honestly, ryzen will give you the better performance for streaming (taking advantage of more cores/threads)

How about if I only need to stream at like 720p60FPS and keep 144FPS on my end? Would the 7700k do that on most of the games listed?

[Gungpae]

2 minutes ago, Beastattack said:

How about if I only need to stream at like 720p60FPS and keep 144FPS on my end? Would the 7700k do that on most of the games listed?

It depends on your streaming settings (if you're using x264 encoding vs QuickSync). With the 7700k you can use QuickSync, but x264 looks better IMO.

[Technomancer__]

8 minutes ago, Gungpae said:

It depends on your streaming settings (if you're using x264 encoding vs QuickSync). With the 7700k you can use QuickSync, but x264 looks better IMO.

Or you can upgrade you GPU and do hnvec (or whatever its called) x264 looks better but its just for fun

[Gungpae]

1 minute ago, Ethocreeper said:

Or you can upgrade you GPU and do hnvec (or whatever its called) x264 looks better but its just for fun

Nvidia NVENC =b :^P

[Beastattack]

16 minutes ago, Gungpae said:

It depends on your streaming settings (if you're using x264 encoding vs QuickSync). With the 7700k you can use QuickSync, but x264 looks better IMO.

Do you think with a 970, the CPU's in off stream games are relatively close in performance? 

[Gungpae]

Just now, Beastattack said:

Do you think with a 970, the CPU's in off stream games are relatively close in performance? 

Yes

[Beastattack]

Just now, Gungpae said:

Yes

I think I will be going with a 1700 then  Thank you for your help.