Hi Guys,
I’d really appreciate someone fact checking what I’m seeing on a new additional PC sitting alongside my gaming PC. This new PC will be a dedicated streaming PC that I’m using an Elgato Capture card on to capture some quality webcam imagery from my GoPro and using NDI to stream some Audio and picture from the Gaming PC.
The second PC is:
- I7-2600K clocked to turbo to 4.2Ghz
- ASRock Z77 Extreme 6
- 16GB DDR3 Ram
- 128GB SSD
- GTX 980
- Elgato HD60 Pro
I’m coming from a system where I would do everything on the one machine, Stream + Gaming. It was a 7700K @ 5.2Ghz HT on with 32GB memory, GTX1080 and 2 SSD’s in RAID 0. So I’m coming from a pretty mean machine however as I play flight sims that are very CPU intensive, I wanted to offload as much as possible, hence the second PC.
As I am partnered on Twitch, I used to stream at 6000 on NVENC with the GTX980 in my gaming machine with the OBS GPU=1 setting. My thoughts on what the 2600k using x264 encoding could do:
1080@60fps could be a stretch
1080@30fps should be ok
720@60fps should be ok
720@30fps should be ok
I’ve been doing some testing using recording (matching the same settings as stream) and have been getting “encoder overloaded” when switching between scenes that have videos playing. An example of this is an intro video and I switch to another scene playing another video. During the switch OBS drops its frames down and I get the overloaded message. I noted that the videos I had were 4K@30fps playing in those scenes, I’ve since reduced them to 1080 and subsequently 720 and have seen the CPU on that scene come down accordingly with marginal performance improvements.
I’ve been able to get some better luck by going back to nvENC but thought x264 could do it. I’ve also noticed that I have some custom transitions that during a scene switch, come in and then snap out to make a nice transition. I’ve had to turn those off in favour of just the basic fade transition. Is this normal?
I’m basically just trying to fact check my thinking here, coming from a powerful machine to this, I’m just trying to right size my expectations about what it can/cannot do.
Appreciate any help
Cheers
Sean,
I’d really appreciate someone fact checking what I’m seeing on a new additional PC sitting alongside my gaming PC. This new PC will be a dedicated streaming PC that I’m using an Elgato Capture card on to capture some quality webcam imagery from my GoPro and using NDI to stream some Audio and picture from the Gaming PC.
The second PC is:
- I7-2600K clocked to turbo to 4.2Ghz
- ASRock Z77 Extreme 6
- 16GB DDR3 Ram
- 128GB SSD
- GTX 980
- Elgato HD60 Pro
I’m coming from a system where I would do everything on the one machine, Stream + Gaming. It was a 7700K @ 5.2Ghz HT on with 32GB memory, GTX1080 and 2 SSD’s in RAID 0. So I’m coming from a pretty mean machine however as I play flight sims that are very CPU intensive, I wanted to offload as much as possible, hence the second PC.
As I am partnered on Twitch, I used to stream at 6000 on NVENC with the GTX980 in my gaming machine with the OBS GPU=1 setting. My thoughts on what the 2600k using x264 encoding could do:
1080@60fps could be a stretch
1080@30fps should be ok
720@60fps should be ok
720@30fps should be ok
I’ve been doing some testing using recording (matching the same settings as stream) and have been getting “encoder overloaded” when switching between scenes that have videos playing. An example of this is an intro video and I switch to another scene playing another video. During the switch OBS drops its frames down and I get the overloaded message. I noted that the videos I had were 4K@30fps playing in those scenes, I’ve since reduced them to 1080 and subsequently 720 and have seen the CPU on that scene come down accordingly with marginal performance improvements.
I’ve been able to get some better luck by going back to nvENC but thought x264 could do it. I’ve also noticed that I have some custom transitions that during a scene switch, come in and then snap out to make a nice transition. I’ve had to turn those off in favour of just the basic fade transition. Is this normal?
I’m basically just trying to fact check my thinking here, coming from a powerful machine to this, I’m just trying to right size my expectations about what it can/cannot do.
Appreciate any help
Cheers
Sean,
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