Question / Help Please Read!!! New Pc need help in getting best stream Quality

[D1sciples]

Does the graphics card really matter when comes to streaming at a high Quality. I am going to list my hardware and internet speeds. I would like to stream in 1080p 60fps. I was able to have it stable for 1280x720 60fps and with Excellent Quality but I want1080p. I tried downscaling from 1080p to 720p but High Cpu usage and started dropping frames. My temperature on Cpu was not high at 50' Celcius.

Processor: Intel i5 6600k 3.5 Ghz Skylake (overclocked 4.0 Ghz)
Motherboard: Asus Z170 Pro Gaming
Ram: DDR4-2400 G.Skills 16GB (its overclocked already)
Graphics Card: None
Case fans: 4 Corsair AF120 quiet edition
Cpu cooler: Be Quiet: Shadow Rock Slim
Hardrive: Samsung SSD 850 evo
PowerSupply: CX600m
Internet Download: 50.49 mbps Upload: 5.89 mbps
idles at:30'C

 

[FerretBomb]

OBS uses the GPU for scaling, compositing, and some other internal functions. Which is why it requires a GPU with the full DX10 hardware spec. Any *modern* budget-grade GPU should work fine.

Assuming you're streaming to Twitch, unless you're Partnered even 1080p@30 is out of the question due to bitrate needs, much less 60fps.
Max advised bitrate for non-partners is 2000kbps. 720p@30fps fits into this nicely.
1080p@30 needs 3000-3500kbps minimum, which will cause a LOT of people to buffer, and leave. Partners can get away with it due to having quality options at all times. 3500kbps is also the technical maximum that the ingest servers are rated to handle smoothly.

1080p@60 starts around 5000-6000kbps, which is the range in which your account can be banned as a denial-of-service attack against the ingests. Generally if you plan to run at those rates you should clear it with Twitch beforehand, or take your chances. Even so, a Skylake i5 is unlikely to have the processing power needed to be able to handle 1080@60 anyway, without bumping up to Superfast (and looking poor as a result).

If you were getting High Encoding on 720p on that chip though, there is a major problem somewhere. Post a log file.

 

[D1sciples]

I want thank you for answering my question, but I overclocked it 4.3 Ghz and it is strong little processor. Im at 54' C on load and running at 3500 bit rate and 1080p 50fps. I overclocked to 4.5 and had 60fps but just didnt like my my fans working so hard. I'm typing this to while im streaming. I was able to do 720p 30fps on my old laptop that is why upgrade and for rendering and better quality. It handled 720p no problem in 60fps, but if were to give a percentage on how much the graphics card affect the stream, what would it be?

 

[FerretBomb]

Overclocking doesn't work miracles. It isn't going to push an i5 to being capable of 1080@60 performance on x264 VF, with current-day hardware. It's going to run into massive frame dupes, skips, and late frames... which isn't actual 60fps at that point.

There is no percentage. That's like asking what percentage of a car's performance is the transmission. It's a component. If you have a crappy one, it will bottleneck your other components. That said it's a fairly low point where the bottleneck takes place, but I'd personally be concerned about running on an iGPU, if nothing else due to the slowness of using shared/partitioned system memory as opposed to actual VRAM, and staying as far as possible under the 16ms barrier for video thread ops.

 

[CraftyGenius99]

What I have found to be the best is to use- (You're gonna need a Nvidia gpu) Nvidia NVENC in the encoder- and i can do gaming at 108060 (though not to twitch) at 12000kb/s, and i dont have any settings lowered in the games, and it seems to perform fine. Now to Twitch, you cant encode anything over 3500kb/s i believe, and most people not partnered go from approx. 1000-2500 kb/s.


Let me know if this possibly helps you.