Can I improve this dedicated streaming pc?

[Paddyward]

Hey guys
I am planning to build a streaming pc that will connect to my gaming pc via capture card. The streaming pc will encode all of my gameplay and then broadcast it, and because it will be encoding all the time, I need a very powerful CPU. Here is what I am planning to purchase: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3tdrJx
I already have a case that will fit the motherboard, a hard drive and a graphics card (GTX 660) that will help take the display stress of the CPU. If there are any improvements that you guys could suggest, it would be awesome.
Also, I should say that I do not plan to overclock yet as I do not believe that it is needed.
Thanks

 

[tsnor]

you are paying extra for an overclockign cpu, then using a mb that does not support overclocking

post specs on your video capture card, it may be doing all the encoding you need. if not then you need to see what the card will produce and what you will output streaming to see how much cpu you need

you sure you want a second pc vs. using one strong pc for both game and streaming ?

 

[Paddyward]

you are paying extra for an overclockign cpu, then using a mb that does not support overclocking

post specs on your video capture card, it may be doing all the encoding you need. if not then you need to see what the card will produce and what you will output streaming to see how much cpu you need

you sure you want a second pc vs. using one strong pc for both game and streaming ?

Thanks for your reply

I have a GTX 970 and an i5 4690k, and my CPU is finding it hard to stream and play CPU intensive games at the same time. I also would not like to use my GPU as an encoder because the quality of the video is much lower than using the CPU encoder. I also plan to overlooked at a later stage, which then I will upgrade my motherboard at the time.

Thanks

 

[tsnor]

Makes sense. GL. (If you do deploy this solution I'd appreciate it if you update this thread.... I'm sort of interested in which capture card you'd use and how it works out.)

Agree with CPU generates better quality than gpu used for transcoding. Was thinking the capture board might already be creating the output format you want (or getting it close enough that the CPU does little work). This one: avermedia live gamer hd http://gamerzone.avermedia.com//game_capture/live_gamer_hd claims to generate the output stream for twitch at less than 5% cpu overhead and costs only $160 at amazon: http://www.amazon.com/AVerMedia-Streaming-Definition-Hardware-C985/dp/B007UXJ6LE
It claims to help a single PC solution. Wonder if you bought this first and tried it in your current PC if your exsiting i5 / 970 could keep up ?

'nuff. GL.