I have an extra PC laying around that I wouldn't mind turning into a dedicated streaming machine.
Are there any issues with this CPU and OBS?
What can I expect as far as performance ?
What would the recommended resolution be?
I have an Avermedia Capture card, and I would like to offload my transcoding from my gaming machine onto the AMD 9590. Should I consider running linux for my dedicated machine?
Thanks in advanced
Are there any issues with this CPU and OBS? Not really, its in the upper end as far as baseline goes
What can I expect as far as performance ? Well its no i7 5960X, but it will do the job as a dedicated box while running 720@60fps with faster preset (maybe medium preset)
What would the recommended resolution be? 720@60 or 1080@30 would be ideal. see above and monitor CPU usage when dropping preset
Should I consider running linux for my dedicated machine? There is really no need for this and I dont know if there are Avermedia drivers for linux or how they perform? plus ffmpeg/avconv can be a pain to work with
Other thoughts:
Don't preview the stream while you encode. disabling the preview on the main screen of OBS helps best performance in some cases. you can click preview to setup your scenes but once you are streaming, dont preview.
Dont watch stream on streaming PC (at least not from Chrome or Firefox. It has actually been proven that Internet Explorer's Hardware accelleration works better than chrome by quite a bit! Chrome will take up 25%of my hexcore's CPUs while watching a HD stream yet IE only takes up 10% for the same stream!
in your streaming PC, make sure you at least have a DX11 video card, i.e. at most 3 years old. like a nVidia 6XX 7XX or 9XX. or an AMD HD 7XXX or R7/R9 series card. your GPU is used by OBS to do some tasks even though OBS will use the Capture card to take the image from, it (somewhat) will store it in the GPU's RAM. this is one advantage of using OBS vs Xsplit...
