Hey guys. It's that time again, time to upgrade to a new PC. So I am going to be doing extreme gaming. I stream, make youtube videos, etc. I need to be able to stream in 1080P 60FPS. Budget is about 3500-4000USD, I am either getting the i7 5960X, i7 5930K, i7 5820K or 4790K, All of these will be used with a superclocked GTX 980.
Question / Help Which processor should I get?
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Ultrapower
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5930k would be great ! Six Cores for encoding :-)
5960x is too much money for the little bit more performance ...
5960x is too much money for the little bit more performance ...
with 8 cores (16 with hyperthreading) I'd go with that for 1080@60, especially you "might" be able to drop the preset at last to faster.
Either way, I'd go with either of the 59XX series because of the 40 PCIE lanes compared to 28 of the 5820k's, if you ever want to go SLI amongst other things that use PCIE lanes...
That being said, DX12 is coming around and will soon support all 8 cores to my best guess (right now in beta it sits at 6 core optimized, but either way, what ever is not being used it going to be used for encoding..
D2ultima
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If you have the money for the 5960X, it *WILL* help. I'm not gonna deny that. It is going to be harder to clock up though, but in games that are single or dual-thread heavy, you'll be able to force OBS to the latter 8 threads etc, so it overall will work out better.
I'd say if you have the money, PLEASE make sure you know what you're doing with the boards and power supplies etc, and then go for a 5960X. It will definitely be the best thing you could think of for streaming.
And 1080p 60fps "fast" should not be out of reach for some games even. But I would still suggest 720p 60fps, and pouring on as much compression as you can, because not only will it be easier for viewers to decode it, but it will look much better especially in fast motion games or games with similarly coloured, repeating patterns (like DayZ's grass).
I'd say if you have the money, PLEASE make sure you know what you're doing with the boards and power supplies etc, and then go for a 5960X. It will definitely be the best thing you could think of for streaming.
And 1080p 60fps "fast" should not be out of reach for some games even. But I would still suggest 720p 60fps, and pouring on as much compression as you can, because not only will it be easier for viewers to decode it, but it will look much better especially in fast motion games or games with similarly coloured, repeating patterns (like DayZ's grass).
D2ultima
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But the quality will be worthless using quicksync at that level with low bandwidth that twitch/hitbox/etc requires
Make sure you get a board with good VRMs for the overclocking and power delivery! Overclock.net might be a good place to figure this out.
you mean the 5960x but yes, that'll do you well if you have the $.
D2ultima
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SLI will cause you nothing but problems with streaming. I highly suggest a single card, and the R9 390X or whatever the Titan-X-with-less-vRAM is (980Ti is the most popular bet) should be your go-to.
I think you don't need a streaming PC; especially if you're going to have a 5960X in your main one.
You should not attempt to stream in 1080p 60fps without a partnership. Not because you can't do it (you can) but because it is a very demanding thing to decode (on the end-user's CPU) and many users simply will be incapable of watching it unless you have quality buttons. If and when you get a partnership, you can happily do 1080/60 depending on the game (some games will simply be incapable of looking good at 1080/60 or 1080/30 due to the visuals being rendered and the low bandwidth limits we have to use to stream). 720/60 will be great; you could probably do medium or even slow with that processor for most any game. Bind that with a good framerate and believe me you're gonna have one of the best looking streams out there.
I think you don't need a streaming PC; especially if you're going to have a 5960X in your main one.
You should not attempt to stream in 1080p 60fps without a partnership. Not because you can't do it (you can) but because it is a very demanding thing to decode (on the end-user's CPU) and many users simply will be incapable of watching it unless you have quality buttons. If and when you get a partnership, you can happily do 1080/60 depending on the game (some games will simply be incapable of looking good at 1080/60 or 1080/30 due to the visuals being rendered and the low bandwidth limits we have to use to stream). 720/60 will be great; you could probably do medium or even slow with that processor for most any game. Bind that with a good framerate and believe me you're gonna have one of the best looking streams out there.
Thanks man. I decided to go with a: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hybrid 4GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 (Maxwell), hope it runs good ;D