Ragnorok64
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I recently built a budget streaming PC
[PCPartPicker part list](http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3YH4jX) / [Price breakdown by merchant](http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3YH4jX/by_merchant/)
Type|Item|Price
:----|:----|:----
**CPU** | [Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/intel-cpu-bx80646i54590) | $171.98 @ Micro Center
**Motherboard** | [ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asrock-motherboard-h97mitxac) | $82.98 @ Newegg
**Memory** | [G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gskill-memory-f314900cl10s8gbxl) | $68.98 @ Newegg
**Storage** | [Western Digital RE3 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd1002fbys) | $78.95 @ Newegg
**Video Card** | [MSI GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-n750ti2gd5oc) | $99.99 @ Newegg
**Power Supply** | [EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-power-supply-100b10600kr) | $29.99 @ NCIX US
| | **Total**
| Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available | $521.87
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-01-24 09:20 EST-0500 |
A key function of this PC is supposed to be its ability to use Quick Sync to minimize impact on processing so I can run two instances of OBS and to record and stream at multiple bitrates. I was testing last night and I'm not entirely sure it's working properly. I haven't even gotten to configuring my 2nd instance of OBS because my recording instance, set to record at 720p60 at 3000kb/s jumps CPU usage all the way up to 30-40% (total CPU usage is around 50%). That's before I've added cameras, virtual audio mixers, Audacity, or anything. When I look at tutorials for quicksynch online they seem to have their bitrates set much higher when using Quick Sync.
I've done everything I can think of to ensure Quick Sync is active.I checked to make sure my mobo supports it, IGPE multimonitor support is enabled in my bios, I downloaded the latest Intel graphics drivers, and I created the "fake" extra desktop and extended to it. In one of the tutorials I saw quick sync showed up in the task manager as its own process, but I'm not seeing that (I'm not sure if that was just an older tutorial though). I believe quick sync is running to some extent because I used to get an "hardware not found error" in OBS when I tried to run a preview with quick synch but I'm not really getting the reduced CPU load I was expecting.
Is what I'm experiencing within normal parameters?
Edit: Also, now that I think about it, I did do a comparison between x264 and quicksync. The quick sync instance seemed to use about 10% less CPU, but it's overall usage was still higher than the "minimal CPU impact" I was expecting from it.
[PCPartPicker part list](http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3YH4jX) / [Price breakdown by merchant](http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3YH4jX/by_merchant/)
Type|Item|Price
:----|:----|:----
**CPU** | [Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/intel-cpu-bx80646i54590) | $171.98 @ Micro Center
**Motherboard** | [ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asrock-motherboard-h97mitxac) | $82.98 @ Newegg
**Memory** | [G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gskill-memory-f314900cl10s8gbxl) | $68.98 @ Newegg
**Storage** | [Western Digital RE3 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd1002fbys) | $78.95 @ Newegg
**Video Card** | [MSI GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-n750ti2gd5oc) | $99.99 @ Newegg
**Power Supply** | [EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-power-supply-100b10600kr) | $29.99 @ NCIX US
| | **Total**
| Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available | $521.87
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-01-24 09:20 EST-0500 |
A key function of this PC is supposed to be its ability to use Quick Sync to minimize impact on processing so I can run two instances of OBS and to record and stream at multiple bitrates. I was testing last night and I'm not entirely sure it's working properly. I haven't even gotten to configuring my 2nd instance of OBS because my recording instance, set to record at 720p60 at 3000kb/s jumps CPU usage all the way up to 30-40% (total CPU usage is around 50%). That's before I've added cameras, virtual audio mixers, Audacity, or anything. When I look at tutorials for quicksynch online they seem to have their bitrates set much higher when using Quick Sync.
I've done everything I can think of to ensure Quick Sync is active.I checked to make sure my mobo supports it, IGPE multimonitor support is enabled in my bios, I downloaded the latest Intel graphics drivers, and I created the "fake" extra desktop and extended to it. In one of the tutorials I saw quick sync showed up in the task manager as its own process, but I'm not seeing that (I'm not sure if that was just an older tutorial though). I believe quick sync is running to some extent because I used to get an "hardware not found error" in OBS when I tried to run a preview with quick synch but I'm not really getting the reduced CPU load I was expecting.
Is what I'm experiencing within normal parameters?
Edit: Also, now that I think about it, I did do a comparison between x264 and quicksync. The quick sync instance seemed to use about 10% less CPU, but it's overall usage was still higher than the "minimal CPU impact" I was expecting from it.