Question / Help Will streaming be a problem

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ActualKarma

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Hey, I'm new to pc gaming and streaming and let's get this out of the way. No, I won't go with an Intel CPU. Anyways I'm looking to start streaming and starting over on youtube. I figured I might as well as dumb questions on an official forum for this instead of asking friends. I'm building a budget PC. Because I'm a student and I want to start as soon as possible. Here's the base components to the PC.

AMD FX 8350
16 gigs of RAM
GTX 1050 (possibly might move up to a 1060)
MSI 970 gaming MOBO
1 terabyte hard drive

Basically I'm hearing mixed reviews about streaming with that CPU. I plan to play games like h1z1 kotk, overwatch, and a bit of dayz and miscreated. Anyone think I'll have problems streaming at 720p30fps or 1080p30fps?
 
C-Dude

C-Dude

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AMD is releasing Zen like really soon. You should wait for those, AMD has been way behind for a long time and as of right now Intel is really the only option, video compression takes a lot of CPU power and to get good stream quality you'll need more than that. That is of course if you are streaming to twitch. If you stream to youtube you don't have to worry about compression since youtube allows for high bitrate and auto gives you the quality options.

Also streaming on twitch you should never do 1080p since twitch only allows for a bitrate of 3500, you really need to get a lot of compression for 1080p to look nearly as good as 720p. Even on really fast top of the line Intel CPUs.

For recording, if you use NVENC you should be fine for even 1080p60 recording on most games.

BOTTOM LINE if you are recording you are fine because NVENC. And for streaming, if you are on youtube you are fine since you can use NVENC and a high bitrate. But for twitch you will struggle.

Either way you should wait for Zen since it is coming next month and you will probably get much better deals and/or performance.
 
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Wait for Zen, a lot of games mentioned are rather CPU intensive.
 
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