Best option for streaming?

[camwright]

A few months back I built a gaming pc with the following specs:

Fx-8350 (h100i v2 cooler)
ASUS Sabertooth 990fx r2
16gb G.Skill ram
Zotac Mini 1060 6gb (only running 1080p)
Evga supernova g2 850w

Runs great and does everything I need.

I wanted to stream for a few friends who have been asking and trying to get into pc gaming but I don’t know the settings I should use as it looked like I had some loss on my end.

Streamlabs was reporting a frame loss even though a friend was viewing fine.


My question:
What is the best bet here?

I have an i5 Surface Pro 3 and I’ve heard I could run a capture card to that and have it do the work?
Anyone with experience there?


Or are there settings I can optimize so I can make sure the stream is clear and working fine?

Best practices?

 

[vapour]

yes, you can use your surface pro, a good guide here by James Mason: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3299336/building-dedicated-streaming.html

As a comment, your pick of FX-8350 as new build is bad choice. Either Ryzen 2 or coffee lake will be better.

 

[camwright]

yes, you can use your surface pro, a good guide here by James Mason: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3299336/building-dedicated-streaming.html

As a comment, your pick of FX-8350 as new build is bad choice. Either Ryzen 2 or coffee lake will be better.

Thanks for the link! I will check it out.

So I bought a prebuilt pc for $350 that had the 8350, mobo, case, 7970 3gb, psu and I could not pass it up because of the price and the budget I had to work with. Next upgrades are cpu,mobo, ram

 

[vapour]

I see, I will probably consider a better psu as well. What model is the psu?

 

[camwright]

I see, I will probably consider a better psu as well. What model is the psu?

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817438018

That is the specific PSU

 

[vapour]

are you sure this is the correct PSU? A prebuilt has EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2? That is worth $155+ alone!

 

[camwright]

are you sure this is the correct PSU? A prebuilt has EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2? That is worth $155+ alone!

 

[camwright]

So back to the initial ask, what do I need to do this? HD60 s?