Question / Help Xeon 1230v2 or i5-3570k for WoW + OBS?

[Vitti Otokainen]

Hello,

has OBS changed lately to utilize multiple threads better? I haven't streamed in 12 months but back then an i5 had similar performance as an i7 with HT while streaming. Should I get better results in OBS streaming WoW 25-raids with a 3,7 GHz 4/8 Xeon or an overclocked, 4,5 GHz 4/4 i5?

I'm running Windows 8.1 x64 and AMD R9 280.
I'd appreciate if someone with experience from the both could aid.

Yours,
Vitti

 

[Videophile]

OBS has always been able to use as many cores as you can give it, thanks to X264.

I would recommend the Xeon. More cores for encoding and more for the game.

 

[rangerrambo]

Basically almost identical topic, check it out: https://obsproject.com/forum/thread...-2-building-new-computer-for-streaming.19183/

 

[Vitti Otokainen]

The problem is that WoW really utilizes three cores only and 25-heroic raiding is one of the most CPU-consuming games out there. Overclocking a quad core for +1 GHz FPS-wise in the game is a huge performance increase.

 

[Videophile]

The problem is that WoW really utilizes three cores only and 25-heroic raiding is one of the most CPU-consuming games out there. Overclocking a quad core for +1 GHz FPS-wise in the game is a huge performance increase.

Sure, but he is trying to stream at the same time. More cores = better.

 

[Timothy003]

The problem is that WoW really utilizes three cores only and 25-heroic raiding is one of the most CPU-consuming games out there. Overclocking a quad core for +1 GHz FPS-wise in the game is a huge performance increase.

Right. But you're seeing a drop in frame rate when streaming because of cache misses, not because OBS is competing for threads. The added threads don't speed up encoding in this scenario (unless you use sliced threads).

If you want to minimize OBS's performance impact, use a hardware encoder, like VCE.