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Old-School dedicated stream box

MidnightBanshi
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I've started work on a build for a dedicated 2nd PC for streaming and encoding.

I have an Asrock Extreme4 X79 board and an R9 280x so far.  The plan is to put in 16 or 32GB of DDR3 and either an i7-3960x or e5-2670.

Has anyone built anything close to this on older hardware, and what were your experiences?

I figure since I already have part of it, I may as well finish it out! :)

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3 minutes ago, MidnightBanshi said:

 

Just get whatever has the most cores with a decent clock speed. You only need 16GBs of RAM at most

 

are you just going to toss in an HD 60 pro?

I edit my posts a lot, Twitter is @LordStreetguru just don't ask PC questions there mostly...
 

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What is your budget/country for your new PC?

 

what monitor resolution/refresh rate?

 

What games or other software do you need to run?

 

 

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I have an HD 60S breakout box, so will be using that, since I'll be doing streaming from either the main PC or a console. I know I could do the Pro one, but I already have the S.

Midnight Rig - CPU: i7-7700K / Cooler: Corsair h100i V2 / Motherboard: AsRock Z270 Taichi / RAM: G.Skill TridentZ 3200Mhz / GPU: EVGA GTX 1070 FTW2 / SSD: Crucial MX300 525GB / HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200rpm / PSU: EVGA Supernova B2 750W

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Just now, ZcanKal said:

Off topic here, but I wonder if a Xeon Phi would be good for an external stream box.  Even if it would be impractical due to the price.

You'd be better off just replacing your main system with a 1950X

I edit my posts a lot, Twitter is @LordStreetguru just don't ask PC questions there mostly...
 

Spoiler

 

What is your budget/country for your new PC?

 

what monitor resolution/refresh rate?

 

What games or other software do you need to run?

 

 

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