Help With My Streaming Setup! What to upgrade

[Trevin Dahl]

Hello! ^-^

TL;DR Out of the options below, what are my best upgrade options for my stream? [New monitor or a new gpu + psu + case]

I'm new to the streaming community; I've been streaming 7 hours, 6 days a week since February 25 and my setup is really important to me. With donations and work on the side I'd like to improve a few things but I'm not sure what will benefit me most in the long run.

Right now I stream mainly CS:GO, I'm pretty bad at it (I run a series called "From Silver to Global | The Adventures of Gold II Pleb") but I am a serious gamer. I'd also like to play the games my stream ask for, and future games but my GTX770 can't really handle and new games on ultra or high while streaming. Other PC specs include a i7-4770k @ 4.0ghz, 16 gigs of ddr3 ram and a few hds plus an SSD.

I have 2 Korean QNIX 1440p IPS monitors overclocked to 96hz; These monitors are absolutely amazing! Color is nearly perfect, no backlight bleed, no dead pixels, and so much room. That being said they are absolutely horrible for CS:GO. I'm pretty sure then run at like 6-8 gtg input delay and they have enough motion blur that I honestly can't see while I'm peeking corner to corner, I can really only lock onto targets when I'm still. I had an Asus Rog Swift (TN) for two months but it exploded and I had it refunded, while I loved it Gsync was buggy and TN panels are horrible IMO.

I'm thinking of either buying a 27" 1440p 144hz Monitor to sit in the middle of my Korean panels, though I'm moving into a tiny house in around 2 weeks so I don't have a hell of a lot of space. I feel like these monitors, while I am still learning, and have a LOT to learn about CS:GO and other competitive games, are really screwing with my vision and gaming performance which is important to me and my stream.

On the other hand I think that a new GTX1080 or even a 1070 would also be a valid option, I could play a wider variety of a games for my stream, and most of these games wouldn't be too effected by the terrible motion blur and slight delay.

Right now I have VERY limited funds and I'm living at home to try and bring down costs while I build up my stream; my student loans are over 16k and the tiny house is going to drain me even more.

I would like to allocate around $500ish to this project. I would like to be more of a variety streamer as I get bored easily but I don't have the funds to buy all the games people ask me to play so I try to limit it down as much as possible.

Anyway, I would love any and all input.

Thank you!
Trevin

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[Lutfij]

The GTX1080 isn't a huge step up from the GTX 900 series but it will be a good jump above the 770 you own at the moment. IMHO I'd suggest that you update the Graphics card first provided your PSU can handle it and then slowly work you way up with the monitors. Since you'll have the core components available for disposal you can go for larger display's or for higher resolutions and details while working with one monitor. Mind you, this is all relevant as of now since game developers like to push the envelope of power further and that would mean that future gaming title scan and will tax your system differently.

Tell you what, pass on your full system's specs and perhaps the rest of the community can chime in and provide their experience's/advice's. Since you're moving to a smaller house, I'd suggest try and build an ITX system and get the single most powerful GPU you can afford which in your case would be to probably get a used Z97 itx motherboard...?