macharborguy
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Hi all, i am currently in the process of doing a Dual PC Streaming Setup rebuild...
Current PCs are as follows...
Gaming PC: Intel Core i5 3470 (2012)
OBS PC : Intel Core i7 860 (2009)
I am just about to do a full rebuild of the Gaming PC, replacing most of the components and making it a Ryzen 7 1700X system. In the process, I will be repurposing the main components from the i5 system and turning that into the new OBS PC.
My whole streaming workflow revolves around using 2 PCs, from the capture cards, audio going thru my mixer, and just the fact that I can reboot or change things on the gaming PC for any reason without having to drop the stream.
The 2012 i5 is, to some degree, more powerful than the 2009 i7, but just barely.
My question is, if I was to look around and find a relatively inexpensive i7 3770 (the maximum i7 my motherboard allows) and replace the i5 with it, what type of performance boost with OBS could I expect, theoretically?
Currently on the i7 860, i am nearly maxing it out CPU-wise, and cannot really do any x264 preset above superfast. Ive also had to turn off my Streamlabs Bit Jar because, even at 10fps in the Browser Source settings, the cef-bootstrap process for it uses about 10% of my CPU alone.
The i5 3470 that I will be moving to can handle the "veryfast" preset, but it also is nearing its limits in a few tests i ran.
I am also converting most of my GIFs and video files over to WebM in hopes that will help smooth some of the performance issues i have run into.
I like things flashy, but i know all too well that the types of visuals I want to push will be taxing my, at this point, quite old hardware.
Ive tried to use AMD hardware encoding on my GPU to lower some of the stress on the OBS system, but the negative effect of that is that my webcam, which is fairly static, takes the brunt of the compression and becomes, as many of my viewers have stated in the past when I've tested it, "like a blurry 80s porn".
I may eventually just build a better OBS rig, and use the Ryzen 7 system as a middle of the road option or stick it out with the i5 system for a bit, but if a semi-inexpensive i7 3770 can give me just a bit more performance to be able to render out at "faster" or "fast" presets, that would probably be what I look at in the interim.
Current PCs are as follows...
Gaming PC: Intel Core i5 3470 (2012)
OBS PC : Intel Core i7 860 (2009)
I am just about to do a full rebuild of the Gaming PC, replacing most of the components and making it a Ryzen 7 1700X system. In the process, I will be repurposing the main components from the i5 system and turning that into the new OBS PC.
My whole streaming workflow revolves around using 2 PCs, from the capture cards, audio going thru my mixer, and just the fact that I can reboot or change things on the gaming PC for any reason without having to drop the stream.
The 2012 i5 is, to some degree, more powerful than the 2009 i7, but just barely.
My question is, if I was to look around and find a relatively inexpensive i7 3770 (the maximum i7 my motherboard allows) and replace the i5 with it, what type of performance boost with OBS could I expect, theoretically?
Currently on the i7 860, i am nearly maxing it out CPU-wise, and cannot really do any x264 preset above superfast. Ive also had to turn off my Streamlabs Bit Jar because, even at 10fps in the Browser Source settings, the cef-bootstrap process for it uses about 10% of my CPU alone.
The i5 3470 that I will be moving to can handle the "veryfast" preset, but it also is nearing its limits in a few tests i ran.
I am also converting most of my GIFs and video files over to WebM in hopes that will help smooth some of the performance issues i have run into.
I like things flashy, but i know all too well that the types of visuals I want to push will be taxing my, at this point, quite old hardware.
Ive tried to use AMD hardware encoding on my GPU to lower some of the stress on the OBS system, but the negative effect of that is that my webcam, which is fairly static, takes the brunt of the compression and becomes, as many of my viewers have stated in the past when I've tested it, "like a blurry 80s porn".
I may eventually just build a better OBS rig, and use the Ryzen 7 system as a middle of the road option or stick it out with the i5 system for a bit, but if a semi-inexpensive i7 3770 can give me just a bit more performance to be able to render out at "faster" or "fast" presets, that would probably be what I look at in the interim.
