Best CPU 2018 for Streaming games as secondary PC

[Dreakin]

Hey guys, I'm planning to build a second PC to stream my games using a capture card. I'd like to to stream 1080P footage or 720P at the slowest preset on OBS. Not sure what CPU I should go for, I've read other thread to get the i9 or AMD TD due to core count but others says go for the i7 with faster clock speed as OBS doesn't use all the cores and benefits on clock speed. Would appreciate all the hInsert other media elp and recommendation

[Skiiwee29]

You will be more hindered by Twitch's compression than anything. A Ryzen CPU will be perfectly sufficient such as the 1800x or the new ones that launch on the 19th, like the 2700x. These would provide you the best results in streaming. No need to go overboard into the HEDT space. 

[LHJKO]

You don't need that powerful of a cpu for a capture card 

[Stefan Payne]

And you don't need a capture card if you use the same PC to play.

And AMD doesn't have much problems with two different operations at the same time, so Ryzen is fine.

[Crunchy Dragon]

You don't need that powerful hardware for a dedicated streaming PC.

[Dreakin]

I have the Ryzen1800x on my device. While playing and streaming it will lag my game and introduce a lot of input lagged. Did a lot of OBS setting tweaking and got the game-play to feel fluid at all time but now the streaming quality is really bad. It works fine on slow pace solo games but any fast pace like FPS games it isn't that great.

[waxer_R6]

 

On 4/13/2018 at 9:42 PM, Crunchy Dragon said:

You don't need that powerful hardware for a dedicated streaming PC.

 

On 4/13/2018 at 9:17 PM, Stefan Payne said:

And you don't need a capture card if you use the same PC to play.

And AMD doesn't have much problems with two different operations at the same time, so Ryzen is fine.

 

On 4/13/2018 at 9:13 PM, Vernw3.com said:

You don't need that powerful of a cpu for a capture card 

Interesting!

I am builing a secondary PC for streaming too!

My main PC is able to play R6S at a decent framerate (~140FPS) but in order to able to play competitively and lag free, i want my encoding load off my main PC.
Main PC Specs:
i7-4790k / 16GB RAM
GTX1070

 

My secondary PC would rock a GTX 770 since it is just sitting on my shelf. I would also throw in 8GBs of DDR3 RAM.
Woud a Haswell quadcore be enough?

And no I do not use a capture card, I connect the two PCs via network since i have quite decent Upload speeds.

Is my assumption correct, that my main PC is not able to encode and play at high Framerate?

[gepowr]

4 hours ago, waxer_R6 said:

 

 

 

Interesting!

I am builing a secondary PC for streaming too!

My main PC is able to play R6S at a decent framerate (~140FPS) but in order to able to play competitively and lag free, i want my encoding load off my main PC.
Main PC Specs:
i7-4790k / 16GB RAM
GTX1070

 

My secondary PC would rock a GTX 770 since it is just sitting on my shelf. I would also throw in 8GBs of DDR3 RAM.
Woud a Haswell quadcore be enough?

And no I do not use a capture card, I connect the two PCs via network since i have quite decent Upload speeds.

Is my assumption correct, that my main PC is not able to encode and play at high Framerate?

Yes i think any haswell i5 would do just fine.

[O9B0666]

47 minutes ago, gepowr said:

Yes i think any haswell i5 would do just fine.

unfortunate your not in NY, im selling it with its gigabyte board haha the i5