Question / Help Is this computer good for OBS Studio and streaming?

[rnscn]

My current computer struggles to stream and run OBS studio without encoding issues despite OBS Classic working fine. It's an old computer and barely runs any new games, so I was looking into getting a new one. Here are the specs:

• Hard Drive Capacity
  1000 gigabytes
• Hard Drive Type
  SATA
• Operating System
  Windows 10
• Processor Speed
  3.8 gigahertz
• Processor Model
  AMD FX-Series
• System Memory (RAM)
  8 gigabytes
• Graphics Card
  AMD Radeon RX 460

This is the one in my price range, but if it's not capable of streaming games such as final fantasy 14 online, I'd like to know before I buy it.

Thanks!

 

[Boildown]

Get a Ryzen (5 or 7) if you want to go AMD. Otherwise get an Intel i5 or i7. The old AMD FX- line will disappoint you.

 

[rnscn]

Thanks! I found another, more expensive one. Would this be better?

• Hard Drive Type
  SATA
• Operating System
  Windows 10
• Processor Speed
  3.2 gigahertz
• Processor Model Y
  AMD Ryzen
• System Memory (RAM)
  8 gigabytes
• Graphics Card
  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

 

[Boildown]

Probably, which Ryzen is it? Only really care about the GPU and CPU, the rest won't have much of an impact on OBS performance.

 

[Benman2785]

if using rx 460 try AMF Encoder -> so your CPU wont bottleneck that much

if u really want a streaming able pc take a RyZen 6C/12T & a 1070 or compareable Vega & min 16G DDR4 3200 & 256gb SSD for OS (and programms)(and in case of OBS all media you add to your stream) + big (and not that slow) HDD + 512gb SSD for games -> should last for 3-4 years ;)

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ps a 1050 is pretty weak - you should at least consider a RX 480 or 1060 -> and a 6C/12T CPU -> and if its Ryzen u should watch DDR4 clock and latency (direct performance gain)