Gaming and/or streaming with Dual CPU Motherboards

[1nstinct]

Hi I was wondering is it worth while to use 2 CPUs particularly with one as a stream pc with or without a capture card. I saw the Ultimate Twitch Streaming PC video but that uses UNRAID so I'm not sure as to the difference. Attaching the video for reference.

 

 

[MedievalMatt]

10 minutes ago, 1nstinct said:

Hi I was wondering is it worth while to use 2 CPUs particularly with one as a stream pc with or without a capture card. I saw the Ultimate Twitch Streaming PC video but that uses UNRAID so I'm not sure as to the difference. Attaching the video for reference.

 

 

You dont have the option to use a specific CPU on a dual socket motherboard for certain tasks... (well, there is process affinity, but that relies on you knowing which threads go to which socket, and thats not easy to determine)

 

If you are talking about two motherboards, as in a dual PC setup.  That is honestly probably the simplest way to go about things.

 

There is also the option of running a single machine for everything, or setting up a streaming VM in virtualbox.  All depends on your specific needs.

[wojtepanik]

not efficient way of doing this, get big case, that could fit 2 systems at once, 2 seperate mobos, cpus etc

[Mira Yurizaki]

28 minutes ago, 1nstinct said:

Hi I was wondering is it worth while to use 2 CPUs particularly with one as a stream pc with or without a capture card. I saw the Ultimate Twitch Streaming PC video but that uses UNRAID so I'm not sure as to the difference. Attaching the video for reference.

Windows 10 on any edition can use two physical CPU sockets, at least according to https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10/windows-10-versions-cpu-limits/905c24ad-ad54-4122-b730-b9e7519c823f?auth=1. So it might be better just to have one install and make sure when running games to have the game on one processor using processor affinity on Task Manger since games aren't design with multi-processor systems in mind.

 

But otherwise no, it's not really worth it. Projects like these are only useful if you have multiple physical users that need to use the PC at the same time.

[QWAIDS]

On 8/6/2018 at 11:16 PM, Mira Yurizaki said:

Windows 10 on any edition can use two physical CPU sockets, at least according to https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10/windows-10-versions-cpu-limits/905c24ad-ad54-4122-b730-b9e7519c823f?auth=1. So it might be better just to have one install and make sure when running games to have the game on one processor using processor affinity on Task Manger since games aren't design with multi-processor systems in mind.

 

But otherwise no, it's not really worth it. Projects like these are only useful if you have multiple physical users that need to use the PC at the same time.

I can confirm it work on windows 10 with dual cpus