Question / Help Which is better for 2 OBS Studios Simultaneously

[xSHAD0Wx]

Im now debating either getting a new 8350 for the two extra cores or a new board for overclocking my 6300. For what I want to do I think the 8350 would be better. I'm trying to run two OBS Studios simultaneously to record locally on one and stream the other. The local record one wont have any overlays.. So I can do time lapse videos and editing for youtube without the extra stuff like webcam, etc. Currently when i try this my CPU maxes out and have to fiddle with obs settings causing my twitch stream to be less than desirable performance... I'm not a PC genius but I think the 8350 would be better for this as opposed to just ocing the 6300.. However a new board would be cheaper option.. Anyone have any thoughts on this. I don't want to sacrifice stream quality to make this work.

My pc specs: Amd fx 6300 (not overclocked) with hyper 212 evo cooler Biostar ta970 board 16gb 1866 hyper fury ddr3 memory Gtx 750 ti ftw vid card

 

[Fenrir]

You'd be much better off with an i7-based system than anything AMD.

 

[xSHAD0Wx]

I dont have the money to completely rebuild though.. I can afford either a cpu barely or a motherboard.. Preferrably id go x99 build with 5820 but i dont have the money for that.. I think the 8350 would be best choice it gives both more cores and higher ghz but.. If i can get away with just overclocking my current build with a new motherboard id go that route

 

[Fenrir]

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+FX-6300+Six-Core <-- this is actually a 3 core CPU

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+FX-8350+Eight-Core&id=1780 <-- this is actually a 4 core CPU.

AMD lies about the cores on their CPUs, and has been sued over it.

Performance increase isn't worth the cost. Save your money, be patient, and get something decent.

In the meantime, you're probably just going to need to lower the settings, or record in slightly higher resolution and crop out just the game footage.

 

[xSHAD0Wx]

It's going to be a very long time before I actually have the money to change out the whole internals... I get it.. you are biased towards Intel, that's fine. But it doesn't really help for my answer to my actual question. I just want to know which matters more for what I want to do.. would overclocking be an improvement.. or buying the 8350.

Lowering the settings doesn't really help much either.. still running at 100% load when I try doing two instances of OBS simultaneously.

Can I get a different answer other than "Buy an Intel" Not all of us are made of money.

 

[bilehazard]

Even overclocking wont help you, or even having an Intel cpu wont help either. Your trying to encode 2 different "sources", presumably in 1080p. Which sucks up alot of CPU usage anyways. Best bet is to save your money so you can afford something that can handle all that encoding power. Might look into getting a dedicated streaming system that can handle all the encoding while your older system does the gaming portion. Only other thing i can recommend is to stick with 720p 30/60 until you can actually afford a beefier system. Cause i wouldnt waste my money getting a higher end AMD cpu if your just going to be stuck with basically the same results.

 

[xSHAD0Wx]

Honestly.. it almost works right now. I'm only trying to do 1080/30 for recording local and streaming downscaled to 720/30. (though I'd like to do 720/60) Its hard to know how much more power I'd actually need. it's not like i'm running a major game currently. I just need this for like 3 games total. RCT3, Cities, and Planet Coaster. I've been testing with RCT3. The other two will take up more resources I know so not even tried it with those. I did find something that sort of works though. Using OBS to Stream and D3DGear for local recording to seems to be effective. It does put my CPU at 99% though but doesn't seem to effect the stream quality very much if at all in my last testings. Only reason I want the separate local record file free of the extra stuff from streaming is because those are games I time lapse for youtube videos. Any other game I stream I don't mind the extra layout parts. There has to be a way of doing it without sacrificing too much quality and cheaper than rebuilding the entire system.