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scorpionking674

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Hello, i have a gaming pc specs i5 6600k, gtx 1060 6gb, 16gb ram. While streaming i noticed both my game and stream would lag and stutter so i decided to get another cheap pc to be used as a streaming rig. Its a dell optiplex 390 that comes with i3 2120 and i think 8gb ram. Im using NDI and voicemeeter vban to mirror my screen and audio. The stream lagged like no tomorrow. Worst than my gaming pc streamed. Do you think if i upgrade my cpu to i7 3770 will resolve this problem or do i need a graphic card too?
 
OBS requires a GPU, about a GTX 550 or better. I recommend a GTX 650 or better so that you can use NVEnc if you want. The GTX 750/950/1050[optional Ti] are low priced and all more than good enough. The AMD equivalents to these are also good, and some model AMDs have their own NVEnc-like feature.

OBS can't run without a "decent" GPU, it uses the GPU for... something... scene compositing, or something like that, in order to make OBS run faster than if it relied purely on the CPU.

So your Optiplex has two problems, first, the i3 2120 is wholly insufficient for video encoding. Video encoding needs cores and the i3 doesn't have them (although the very latest i3 is a quad core now, that isn't the 2120). The i7 your propose is much better, and will actually work really well. And 2nd, you didn't mention a GPU in your Optiplex, but it needs one, like I described in the first paragraph.
 
Boildown said:
OBS requires a GPU, about a GTX 550 or better. I recommend a GTX 650 or better so that you can use NVEnc if you want. The GTX 750/950/1050[optional Ti] are low priced and all more than good enough. The AMD equivalents to these are also good, and some model AMDs have their own NVEnc-like feature.

OBS can't run without a "decent" GPU, it uses the GPU for... something... scene compositing, or something like that, in order to make OBS run faster than if it relied purely on the CPU.

So your Optiplex has two problems, first, the i3 2120 is wholly insufficient for video encoding. Video encoding needs cores and the i3 doesn't have them (although the very latest i3 is a quad core now, that isn't the 2120). The i7 your propose is much better, and will actually work really well. And 2nd, you didn't mention a GPU in your Optiplex, but it needs one, like I described in the first paragraph.
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Oh yeah it doesnt have a dedicated gpu but thanks for letting me know. Im having troubles streaming an emulator game on my 6600k. It would just get stuck making weird noise on one frame for about 5-20 seconds. Will gtx 650 1gb be enough?
 
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