Dedicated streaming pc advice

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Bagle90

New Member
Hiya,
I’ve previously dipped my toes in to streaming on both twitch and Facebook gaming but I was using a rather basic MacBook Pro to do so and it just doesn’t have what it takes to be a proper streaming system
I’m currently looking at a desktop pc to do the job and was wondering if you could tell me if it would be good enough?
im playing on Xbox and capturing with an avermedia 2plus so the desktop would just be for streaming only and would probably only be streaming at 720p@60

the spec is :-
Intel i7 2600 3.40ghz quad
Gt710 2gb graphics card
XUM 16gb ddr3
1tb hdd

Thanks,
Brad
 
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Lawrence_SoCal

Active Member
Many folks don't understand the technical intricacies of WiFi and why it doesn't work for something like live-streaming.
So, even with a laptop, make sure you are using a wired Ethernet connection (no, not absolutely required, but gets complicated to advise on a reliable WiFi connection, and in some dense urban areas isn't practical without significant expense and expertise))

Can a laptop work for streaming? absolutely. Will a desktop PC CPU and GPU be more powerful at a given cost level? Yes, in general
Do I think what you listed will work? no, most likely not (but I'm not a gamer, so I'm not authoritative on this.
an i7-2600 is essentially 9 generations old, and real-time video encoding is demanding work. For the most basic of OBS setup... maybe (sorry, I'm not a gamer and haven't had a reason to play with 60fps), but realistically I'd want recommend at least a more current nVidia GPU with NVENC support so you can offload encoding to it. And a SSD so you don't have disk i/o bottleneck
- someone else will need to respond on what such an old PC (for video encoding) might be able to accomplish

What you have to ask yourself if what are your plans for things like overlays, audio effects/filters (compression, noise gates, etc), chroma keying, USB webcam, etc.? you can easily add a lot of CPU load depending on your OBS settings. there are guides to using OBS with an under-powered computer
 
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Bagle90

New Member
Lawrence_SoCal said:
Many folks don't understand the technical intricacies of WiFi and why it doesn't work for something like live-streaming.
So, even with a laptop, make sure you are using a wired Ethernet connection (no, not absolutely required, but gets complicated to advise on a reliable WiFi connection, and in some dense urban areas isn't practical without significant expense and expertise))

Can a laptop work for streaming? absolutely. Will a desktop PC CPU and GPU be more powerful at a given cost level? Yes, in general
Do I think what you listed will work? no, most likely not (but I'm not a gamer, so I'm not authoritative on this.
an i7-2600 is essentially 9 generations old, and real-time video encoding is demanding work. For the most basic of OBS setup... maybe (sorry, I'm not a gamer and haven't had a reason to play with 60fps), but realistically I'd want recommend at least a more current nVidia GPU with NVENC support so you can offload encoding to it. And a SSD so you don't have disk i/o bottleneck
- someone else will need to respond on what such an old PC (for video encoding) might be able to accomplish

What you have to ask yourself if what are your plans for things like overlays, audio effects/filters (compression, noise gates, etc), chroma keying, USB webcam, etc.? you can easily add a lot of CPU load depending on your OBS settings. there are guides to using OBS with an under-powered computer
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I probably should have stated that the MacBook was connected via Ethernet by a usb c adapter, and like I said there would be no gaming done on this pc whatsoever, it would be solely used for obs to capture and stream the gameplay from my Xbox to Facebook or twitch. From my understanding of the searches I did about streaming from my MacBook, the main issue was with the encoding, that’s why I’m looking at a desktop with a separate graphics card to do the encoding instead. (Again this is what I’m understanding from bits of searching, but I am a total novice) would the gt710 not be able to do the encoding?
thanks
Brad
 
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Lawrence_SoCal

Active Member
Bagle90 said:
I probably should have stated that the MacBook was connected via Ethernet by a usb c adapter, and like I said there would be no gaming done on this pc whatsoever, it would be solely used for obs to capture and stream the gameplay from my Xbox to Facebook or twitch. From my understanding of the searches I did about streaming from my MacBook, the main issue was with the encoding, that’s why I’m looking at a desktop with a separate graphics card to do the encoding instead. (Again this is what I’m understanding from bits of searching, but I am a total novice)
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You may want to post over in the MacOS forum the details on your MacBook and request for settings advice for your setup
What I don't know, assuming an older/under-powered PC (Mac or Windows) is relative CPU impact of using something like NDI vs a HDMI capture card. Then, depending on Mac model (I don't recommend asking/posting in this Windows forum ;^) the encoder settings. If the MacBook is same age as that i7-2600, then I wouldn't bother (it might work, but at low settings and you'll need to become fairly adept at optimizing OS and OBS settings to minimize resources demands)
If your Mac is more current, then try running a stream and follow instructions here so folks can check your settings and stream/recording results (encoder/render lag, network, etc)

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