Question / Help Capture card advice? 120hz Monitor

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CannoliTV

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Hey guys, I have a kind of basic Litecoin mining rig I'm gonna convert to a dedicated encoder box. It has kind of a cheap 80-100$ AMD chip and 8gb of ram. I was planning to buy the Avermedia Live Gamer HD but I use a 120hz monitor and the max it accepts is 60hz, does anyone have a workaround? Also does anyone know if the new Avermedia Live Gamer Exteme with USB 3.0 would be better?

Thanks!
 
Encoding x264 for streaming requires quite a beast of a CPU if you want good quality. Cheap CPUs is pretty much a nogo.
NVenc and QuickSync (Intel CPUs only) looks terribad at normal streaming bitrates so if you plan or recording stuff as opposed to streaming you might get away there... :)
 
With NVidia I can clone my screen at a different framerate than my main screen (they must be the same resolution though), and I used to send 60Hz to my Avermedia capture card and 120Hz to my monitor. Not sure if you can do the same on AMD or not.

But it always felt like it didn't work right, my main monitor felt like 60Hz even though everything reported 120Hz. So I eventually got a Datapath capture card capable of capturing 1080p120 and sent 120Hz to both. That's pretty expensive though (I found a good deal on Ebay, personally).

Before doing that, you might try the 2 PC Configuration Without Capture Card solution: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/guide-two-pc-configuration-without-capturecard.6757

And I agree with Bamse that your cheap litecoin mining CPU probably can't handle x264 encoding at the default preset. Care to specify which CPU it has, and which GPU you'll use in it? For saving to disk at a high bitrate, it might be ok, but you don't need 2 PCs to do that. So in the end the advise might be to just not use a 2 PC solution.
 
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