Question / Help Is this good?

[SwanGaming]

Hey forum I was trying to use obs for webcam and gameplay live streaming and I was getting the directx 10 not initialized error and that's because my hard drive has a lot of old stuff in it anyway I was just wondering if you guys could tell me if this is a good harddrive for live streaming and using obs (see image attached) it comes with a Radeon HD7560d graphics card

 

[hilalpro]

The APU that comes with that system is really weak especially if you're planning to do streaming and gaming on the same machine. APU's in general are not recommended for this kind of tasks and you'll ideally want to use a modern CPU with at least 4 real cores to comfortably stream at decent quality.

 

[SwanGaming]

The APU that comes with that system is really weak especially if you're planning to do streaming and gaming on the same machine. APU's in general are not recommended for this kind of tasks and you'll ideally want to use a modern CPU with at least 4 real cores to comfortably stream at decent quality.

Thanks for the reply just 2 questions
1. What APU is good?
2. Don't know if this makes a huge difference but I will be streaming only ps3/ps4

 

[dodgepong]

1. No APUs are good. If it is an APU, it is pretty much garbage, almost by definition. To have a decent stream, you have to have a separate CPU and GPU.

2. Streaming a console is good because you don't have to add the extra resource usage of the gameplay on top of video recording. But APUs are still terrible for streaming regardless.

 

[SwanGaming]

1. No APUs are good. If it is an APU, it is pretty much garbage, almost by definition. To have a decent stream, you have to have a separate CPU and GPU.

2. Streaming a console is good because you don't have to add the extra resource usage of the gameplay on top of video recording. But APUs are still terrible for streaming regardless.

Oh ok I get what you mean so I want something more on the lines like this harddrive (image attached)

 

[dodgepong]

That is a much better CPU, though I can't tell what kind of GPU it has. If it only uses the integrated graphics, then it will be fine for streaming, but not for gaming.

 

[SwanGaming]

That is a much better CPU, though I can't tell what kind of GPU it has. If it only uses the integrated graphics, then it will be fine for streaming, but not for gaming.

What do you think about this one?

 

[dodgepong]

That's an even better CPU, but again, I can't tell what kind of GPU it has.

Rather than you asking me for my opinion for every option available to you, I recommend checking out http://logicalincrements.com to see a good list of computer hardware for various budgets.

 

[SwanGaming]

That's an even better CPU, but again, I can't tell what kind of GPU it has.

Rather than you asking me for my opinion for every option available to you, I recommend checking out http://logicalincrements.com to see a good list of computer hardware for various budgets.

Ok I will do that thanks for all your help it was much lay appreciated