Question / Help Optimal specs for a dedicated encoding/streaming box?

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QforQ

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Hi all,

I'm wondering if anyone could link me to guides or general guidelines for what specs you should build to for a streaming PC? I'm currently streaming and gaming on the same PC but I've hit a CPU limit on my current setup, especially as I try to play Battlefield 4 and stream at 720p 30fps.

What are the minimum and recommended CPU and RAM setups for an encoding machine? Any suggestions would be very helpful! :)
 
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frostyshield

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Seeing as you have no budget go for:

i7 5960X
16GB DDR4 2133Mhz ram
120GB SSD
970 GPU

If you had a budget that would make things a lot different.
 
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QforQ

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I don't have a budget in mind yet because I'm trying to see what is needed for a streaming box. To be clear, this is a dedicated machine that just encodes and streams, it doesn't play the game. So with that said, I don't really se the point in adding a powerful graphics card to the machine since it won't utilize it...unless I'm mistaken?

Let's say I budgeted $300-500 for a processor and mobo. What would I want to make sure I get? Is there a class of Intel processor and a clock rate that I should shoot for?
 
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frostyshield

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It depends a lot tbh, do you want crystal clear quality or just "ok" quality downscaled to 720P, with a powerful discrete GPU say Nvidia you can use there encoder so it uses the CPU less.
 
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QforQ

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Ideally I'd have something that could be better than "ok" quality. I have an old Nvidia 570 that I can throw in this box.
 
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frostyshield

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old Nvidia cards are worthless for streaming with obs unless you have a beast of a CPU, I currently game+stream on the same machine with medium encoder 3500bitrate, i7 5820K, 16GB DDR4 2133Mhz, 7950 I am getting a 970 tomorrow so hopefully I can push slower encodering with most of it going on the 970 :)

Also I have pretty much crystal clear quality.
 
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QforQ

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Not to get off topic....How are you trying to offload some of the encoding to the GPU? I've got a 770 (bought it like 3 weeks before the 970 came out...damnit), so I'm wondering if there's a way that I can use it to do some of the heavy lifting.
 
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