Help Building a Streaming/Recording/Gaming PC

[Vlazo]

I recently sold and gave away parts from a pretty extreme PC that I really didn't use because of issues I had had with it. It was a lot of balls to the walls parts but it just faded away, and I found the convience and freedom of pre-built laptops, more suited my most played games (CS, Rocket League.)

 

Even more recently, I decided I wanted to build a computer that can do a couple of things for me; stream and record gameplay, as well as editting both video and photos (I really don’t intend on editting 4k videos, just gameplay.) The notable games I play most are CS and RL. I don’t want to be confined to just streaming those games, but I doubt I will venture into games like The Witcher or DOOM, as they really aren’t my thing. I tend to gravitate towards competitve games more anyway, and more generally, multiplayer.

 

I am looking to spend anywhere between $1,500 - $2,000, but going under wouldn’t be a bad thing . Additionally, I do have a EVGA Titan (Original) 6gb HydroCopper, which I got for cheap and intended on running in SLI, however, I might sell it to make a profit, depending on the outcome here. I basically need everything else, but perphirals (excluding moniters), from the case to the cpu. I want to run two gaming moniters, or one larger one, and a smaller, bog standard moniter, which I already own.

 

Some prefrences I have, aesthitically speaking are: RGB friendly, but would like some degree of control, I really don’t care about noise, as I will being using noise cancelling headphones and my roomate lives two floors above me. I perfer a boxier, more rectangular design. Cable management is a must, however, I don’t mind using the stock cables. In general I am function over form.

 

Notes: 

• The EVGA GTX Titan HydroCopper is a liquid cooled card, so if your suggestion is to keep it, the system would have to be watercooled, as I am not comfortable taking off the water block.
• My current perphirals are the Corsair RGB K70 and RGB M65 (both black).
• The most graphics intensive game I own is either Ark or Mad Max, as far as I can recall, I do have Far Cry, GTA, Watchdogs and Just Cause 3 are on my wishlist.
• Running games at Ultra, or even High is not a priority when streaming/recording. I perfer the gameplay over the visuals in most cases.
• I do want to run photoshop for editting photography.

I think that is all, I hope I can edit this post as I can think of stuff. Thank you everyone in advanced.

[FloRolf]

I'd honestly sell the Titan to see how much you can get for it. It's basically a GTX780 so pretty old. Then I'd get a GTX1060 6gb or higher, an 2700X, 16gb ram and a nice 500gb nvme drive. What kind of monitor are you looking for here? A 1080p144 gsync or a regular 1440p60 or even a 4k?

[Vlazo]

4 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

I'd honestly sell the Titan to see how much you can get for it. It's basically a GTX780 so pretty old. Then I'd get a GTX1060 6gb or higher, an 2700X, 16gb ram and a nice 500gb nvme drive. What kind of monitor are you looking for here? A 1080p144 gsync or a regular 1440p60 or even a 4k?

I want to stick with a 1440, preferably something with 144hz. My only hesistation about buying a 1060 is that you can’t run SLI, which limits my options for upgrading in the future, where as the Titan only has a ~6% drop-off from the 1060, before overclocking (from the firestrike scores I did on my friend’s high-end test bench.) After overclocking it has a ~3% increase, as well as having the ability to run SLI.

[GoldenLag]

24 minutes ago, Vlazo said:

I want to stick with a 1440, preferably something with 144hz. My only hesistation about buying a 1060 is that you can’t run SLI, which limits my options for upgrading in the future, where as the Titan only has a ~6% drop-off from the 1060, before overclocking (from the firestrike scores I did on my friend’s high-end test bench.) After overclocking it has a ~3% increase, as well as having the ability to run SLI.

Get a Vega 56/64 or Rx 580. You have the ability to crossfire (even though, like SLI, is falling out of popularity)

 

Then an r7 2700x for the streaming capability. 

 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7GHz 8-Core Processor  ($304.89 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: Asus - Prime X470-Pro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($158.45 @ OutletPC) 
Memory: Team - Dark 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($125.98 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($86.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($78.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: Gigabyte - Radeon RX VEGA 64 8GB Video Card  ($479.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($98.62 @ B&H) 
Monitor: AOC - AG271QX 27.0" 2560x1440 144Hz Monitor  ($349.99 @ Walmart) 
Total: $1683.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-27 04:24 EDT-0400

 

Includes a monitor with freesync to use adaptive sync on the Vega.

[Vlazo]

11 hours ago, GoldenLag said:

Get a Vega 56/64 or Rx 580. You have the ability to crossfire (even though, like SLI, is falling out of popularity)

 

Then an r7 2700x for the streaming capability. 

 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7GHz 8-Core Processor  ($304.89 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: Asus - Prime X470-Pro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($158.45 @ OutletPC) 
Memory: Team - Dark 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($125.98 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($86.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($78.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: Gigabyte - Radeon RX VEGA 64 8GB Video Card  ($479.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($98.62 @ B&H) 
Monitor: AOC - AG271QX 27.0" 2560x1440 144Hz Monitor  ($349.99 @ Walmart) 
Total: $1683.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-27 04:24 EDT-0400

 

Includes a monitor with freesync to use adaptive sync on the Vega.

Besides the reduced cost, what real, noticable benefits does AMD have over an Intel/Nvidia machine?.

[GoldenLag]

14 minutes ago, Vlazo said:

Besides the reduced cost, what real, noticable benefits does AMD have over an Intel/Nvidia machine?.

On the CPU side you loose some singlethreaded performance. Other than that you dont loose any. Difference in gaming at 1440p is minimal 

 

On the GPU side AMD is usually a bit more expencive, but it allows for the use of cheaper freesync monitors. Performance is the same at each pricetier. 

 

Essentially you just as good machine at a lower prciepoint. 

 

 

Edit: also you can slot CPUs in 2020 in to the same socket. 

Edited October 27, 2018 by GoldenLag

[Vlazo]

12 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

On the CPU side you loose some singlethreaded performance. Other than that you dont loose any. Difference in gaming at 1440p is minimal 

 

On the GPU side AMD is usually a bit more expencive, but it allows for the use of cheaper freesync monitors. Performance is the same at each pricetier. 

 

Essentially you just as good machine at a lower prciepoint. 

Obviosuly, for starting out, and playing less intensive games, would you recommend getting one GPU? Also, what about motherboards, memory and storage?

[brob]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-9700K 3.6GHz 8-Core Processor  ($419.99 @ B&H) 
CPU Cooler: Corsair - H100i v2 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($89.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: Asus - PRIME Z390-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($189.89 @ OutletPC) 
Memory: Patriot - Viper RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($140.98 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($54.95 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($58.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce RTX 2070 8GB Black Video Card  ($499.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Phanteks - Eclipse P350X (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($69.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: Corsair - RMx (2018) 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($84.99 @ Newegg) 
Monitor: Dell - S2716DG 27.0" 2560x1440 144Hz Monitor  ($464.95 @ Amazon) 
Total: $2074.61
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-27 16:08 EDT-0400

[GoldenLag]

3 minutes ago, Vlazo said:

Obviosuly, for starting out, and playing less intensive games, would you recommend getting one GPU? Also, what about motherboards, memory and storage?

Storage is just a 250+GB SSD + 2TB HDD

 

One GPU is allways the recommended solution.

 

If you need multi-GPU and overclocking then Z/X series. 

 

I would recommend avoiding tye heated mess of Z390 and 9900k/9700k.

For your workload and pricepoint an 2600x/2700x is a whole lot better. 

 

9000 series is really only for people getting the 2080ti. 

 

Memmory is standard 16GB (2*8GB) 3000/3200mhz cl16

[Vlazo]

1 hour ago, GoldenLag said:

Storage is just a 250+GB SSD + 2TB HDD

 

One GPU is allways the recommended solution.

 

If you need multi-GPU and overclocking then Z/X series. 

 

I would recommend avoiding tye heated mess of Z390 and 9900k/9700k.

For your workload and pricepoint an 2600x/2700x is a whole lot better. 

 

9000 series is really only for people getting the 2080ti. 

 

Memmory is standard 16GB (2*8GB) 3000/3200mhz cl16

I also need to consider good boards for overclocking. I really don’t do much building, so I would like something relatively intuitive.

[GoldenLag]

30 minutes ago, Vlazo said:

I also need to consider good boards for overclocking. I really don’t do much building, so I would like something relatively intuitive.

The easiest would just to not overclock.

 

XFR2 on the 2700x makes it so you get the best performance out of the box.

 

I will har highly encourage avoiding the 9000 series.