Question / Help Should I get a streaming card?

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Decox

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I have a gtx 780, 12gb ram and a i7 2600 but when I steam I get massive fps loss so I was wondering would a steaming card work better and be worth getting? If so what card should I get?
 
They're only worth getting if you have a dedicated PC to put them in. If you game and stream on the same PC, then it actually makes things worth to try to use one.
 
Any recommendation on specs for a secondary capture machine? If using a capture card does it need to be high end?
 
archer75 said:
Any recommendation on specs for a secondary capture machine? If using a capture card does it need to be high end?
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Depends if you're just recording to hard drive or if you're streaming to a site like Twitch. If just recording, you can just get a GTX 750 and a recent dual core (Sandy Bridge or later) and use NVEnc encoding and it'll be fine. If you're streaming, you'll want an Intel i7 to get a decent quality stream going because you'll need to use x264 encoding, and that takes a lot of CPU to do.

As for the expense/quality of the capture card you get, that depends entirely on the resolution and framerate you want to stream at. The bigger and faster, the more expensive it gets.
 
archer75 said:
I was considering something like AverMedia Live Gamer HD c985. It would be for streaming to Twitch.
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That's a popular one that works well with OBS. It has a limitation that basically makes you choose between 1080p30 or 720p60. Can't do 1080p60. Other than that, people like it. It can get the audio over the HDMI input as well.
 
Decox said:
So it would be better and cheaper to get a card then get a second build?
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That's not what I said. You either choose to have a 2nd PC with a capture card, or you get neither a 2nd PC nor a capture card. Both or neither.
 
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