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Dedicated streaming PC - 7700k enough?

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6 minutes ago, epsilon84 said:

Wait, will you game and stream using this PC? Or are you offloading the streaming duties to this PC?

 

If its the first, then no, a 7700K wouldn't be that great. If its the latter, then it should be sufficient.

I will game using my gaming rig and then use a newly build computer with my "old" 7700k to stream it.

 

Gaming computer + Streaming PC.

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4 minutes ago, RAM555789 said:

A 7700k should handle streaming/encoding though more cores tends to better, you should be able to steam and encode along with having discord, and some other things open on it, while you play a game your main rig.

I love the word "should" in this context hehe 9_9 The only thing that will be running on the streaming PC will be OBS. Nothing else. Not even Discord since I will be running that on my main gaming rig. 

 

So just to clarify, only the streaming software will be running(obs), nothing else. The question remains, will a 7700k be more than enough for a perfect 1080p/60fps stream?

 

My gaming rig is 8700k, 1080 ti, 32gb (cl14), 100/100mbit. 

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13 minutes ago, Kopai said:

I love the word "should" in this context hehe 9_9 The only thing that will be running on the streaming PC will be OBS. Nothing else. Not even Discord since I will be running that on my main gaming rig. 

 

So just to clarify, only the streaming software will be running(obs), nothing else. The question remains, will a 7700k be more than enough for a perfect 1080p/60fps stream?

 

My gaming rig is 8700k, 1080 ti, 32gb (cl14), 100/100mbit. 

Well you get playable performance on the 7700K while playing and streaming at the same time already so if you offload the streaming duty to it you're going overkill here. I'm sure even an i5 would be more than enough to handle that so the answer is hell yes it'll be fine. 

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1 minute ago, light-v said:

Well you get playable performance on the 7700K while playing and streaming at the same time already so if you offload the streaming duty to it you're going overkill here. I'm sure even an i5 would be more than enough to handle that so the answer is hell yes it'll be fine. 

Well, the thing is, I tested out several games and normally my CPU usage is at 50-60% when playing games. As soon as I start OBS it goes fully 100% all the time and I start to get crappy stream quality, hence the reason I want a secondary PC. I'm just afraid that the 7700k won't be enough somehow since its only 4 core and 8 threads hmm?

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1 minute ago, Kopai said:

Well, the thing is, I tested out several games and normally my CPU usage is at 50-60% when playing games. As soon as I start OBS it goes fully 100% all the time and I start to get crappy stream quality, hence the reason I want a secondary PC. I'm just afraid that the 7700k won't be enough somehow since its only 4 core and 8 threads hmm?

 

Well since your only streaming and not recording that means an even easier time on your CPU, though starting OBS and going to 100% usage while only at 50-60% usage while playing games doesn't sound right at all, it shouldn't be using nearly that much even if its 4 cores 8 threads.

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1 minute ago, Kopai said:

Well, the thing is, I tested out several games and normally my CPU usage is at 50-60% when playing games. As soon as I start OBS it goes fully 100% all the time and I start to get crappy stream quality, hence the reason I want a secondary PC. I'm just afraid that the 7700k won't be enough somehow since its only 4 core and 8 threads hmm?

I think tweaking the settings should have helped then, there were a lot of benchmarks with Ryzen 7 vs i7 7700K streaming performance and they got good performance on both now that you're dedicated an entire system to do one thing there isn't going to be an issue with the huge IPC of the 7700K

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25 minutes ago, Kopai said:

I love the word "should" in this context hehe 9_9 The only thing that will be running on the streaming PC will be OBS. Nothing else. Not even Discord since I will be running that on my main gaming rig. 

 

So just to clarify, only the streaming software will be running(obs), nothing else. The question remains, will a 7700k be more than enough for a perfect 1080p/60fps stream?

 

My gaming rig is 8700k, 1080 ti, 32gb (cl14), 100/100mbit. 

If its just for OBS, yes, it will be more than enough to get smooth streaming without dropped frames.

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God damn I feel stupid now.. Been awake for god knows how long and I just noticed a keyword there RAM555789.. recording.. I had recording enabled ?!.. Bravo.. Now CPU usage is "fine" increased by 20-30% .. stupid AF I am now lol.

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Kopai said:

God damn I feel stupid now.. Been awake for god knows how long and I just noticed a keyword there RAM555789.. recording.. I had recording enabled ?!.. Bravo.. Now CPU usage is "fine" increased by 20-30% .. stupid AF I am now lol.

 

 

No problem, recording tends to eat a lot more processing power than just steaming, one other thing I recommend if your not doing it already is to make sure you have an ethernet hooked up to your router if you're currently on wireless it will make a world of a difference in many cases. (unless you're connecting to a router that can handle a 5GHz connection then its almost no difference)

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