Looking for streaming/recording viability advice

[ImBumi]

Heyo,

 

I'm planning on streaming once i receive and build by system. Is streaming while recording with OBS the best way to go for, well, streaming and recording - to be uploaded to YouTube for as a VOD. I'm not experienced to any of this so I don't know if you can get your stream vod using twitch to avoid the whole recording thing altogether. Also if my system is good enough for it.

 

Notes:

- I'm okay with lowering my game settings for the game and stream to run smoothly, my main priority is having a good streaming experience and quality for the viewer.

- I'm planning on streaming 1080p - not sure if I can do that immediately with twitch but that's the plan.

- My system specs is probably old by now but I bought this on christmas 2017 but international shipping is causing delays on top of other issues.

- I'll probably overclock the CPU and GPU to help

 

System specs:

- Ryzen 7 1700

- Captain 240EX

- Strix X370-F Mobo

- Trident Z RGB 32GB (4x8) 3200 (This might be overkill but I also need this for my day to day work).

- WD Black 512GB NVMe boot drive

- WD Black 6TB 7200RPM HDD

- Palit 1050ti (will upgrade to xx80 when it comes out or get a 1080ti if not)
- Crystal 460X case

- EVGA Supernova g3 750W 80+ Gold

 

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

[Jurrunio]

32 minutes ago, imshadowfox said:

WD Black 6TB 7200RPM HDD

Might want to get multiple 3TB or 4TB drives for redundancy instead.

 

34 minutes ago, imshadowfox said:

- Trident Z RGB 32GB (4x8) 3200 (This might be overkill but I also need this for my day to day work).

You might not be able to hit that frequency with capacity that high. Ryzen's memory compatibility issue still comes in at times.

 

33 minutes ago, imshadowfox said:

'm planning on streaming once i receive and build by system. Is streaming while recording with OBS the best way to go for, well, streaming and recording - to be uploaded to YouTube for as a VOD. I'm not experienced to any of this so I don't know if you can get your stream vod using twitch to avoid the whole recording thing altogether. Also if my system is good enough for it.

You're good. With the 1050ti, use x264 as your encoder. With the future GPU upgrade, you get to choose to either stay with x264 or use NVENC.

[Phentos]

The Ryzen 1700 can handle x264 just fine so long as you keep your CPU usage preset on Fast or higher. However Medium works if you OC and have very good cooling.

 

Also keep the bitrate lower than 7000. Higher bitrates than this are a waste of time and bandwidth since Twitch has a soft cap on bitrate, unless you're a Twitch partner. 

 

Once you do your homework and optimize x264 settings, NVENC is just crap in comparison. You get the same quality out of x264 for a much lower bitrate as compared to NVENC. Saves bandwidth, reduces lag, and doesn't prevent anyone else living with you from using the internet 

[ImBumi]

1 hour ago, Jurrunio said:

Might want to get multiple 3TB or 4TB drives for redundancy instead.

I already bought the drive, this will also be used for my other files as well. I'll probably get more if needed, this is just to start.

 

1 hour ago, Jurrunio said:

You might not be able to hit that frequency with capacity that high. Ryzen's memory compatibility issue still comes in at times.

 

I understand that, I'll have to check what the highest frequency I can get.

 

42 minutes ago, Phentos said:

Also keep the bitrate lower than 7000. Higher bitrates than this are a waste of time and bandwidth since Twitch has a soft cap on bitrate, unless you're a Twitch partner.

From what I have read thus far, going above 6k bitrate looks like a waste. I'll definitely experiment on which looks best for me and not go overboard as you said. 

 

43 minutes ago, Phentos said:

Once you do your homework and optimize x264 settings, NVENC is just crap in comparison. You get the same quality out of x264 for a much lower bitrate as compared to NVENC. Saves bandwidth, reduces lag, and doesn't prevent anyone else living with you from using the internet 

Yup, I'll also do further research on optimizing it as best as I can. Also, i forgot to mention that I have a 50Mbps upload speed, hopefully that's good enough.

[ImBumi]

By the way, when you guys refer to x264, do you mean recording at x264 while streaming right?

[Phentos]

1 minute ago, imshadowfox said:

By the way, when you guys refer to x264, do you mean recording at x264 while streaming right?

OBS automatically records the game footage via the x264 codec and exports it to your stream. You would set this under the Streaming tab in the OBS Studio settings page.

[Jurrunio]

1 minute ago, imshadowfox said:

By the way, when you guys refer to x264, do you mean recording at x264 while streaming right?

streaming is basically recording and sending that out on the fly at the same time. Therefore, recording isnt a seperate task to streaming.

[ImBumi]

Oh I mean something like recording it to my local drive while streaming it online. I understand that you can set it so that it just streams and not record it.