Streaming/ Recording PC

[flamefire999]

I already have a PC but I wanted another one to record with. I already have the Avermedia Live Gamer and I built this PC: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/NbC33C ($600 budget) to record and encode when I'm streaming. I won't be overclocking so I just got an i5-4440. Tell me what you think

 

[HEXiT]

it will do the job but really its overkill. for streaming you only need a dual core a 300w psu would be fine and a single stick of 4 gigs of the cheapest ram. yeah you could probably halve your budget and still get what you want it to do.
in this case i would suggest maybe an cheap i3 and a $50 msi or biosstar motherboard.
forget the ssd in this situation it may be more of an issue than a help. just get some cheap large hdds.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/HvDDhM $430 or there abouts.

 

[flamefire999]

it will do the job but really its overkill. for streaming you only need a dual core a 300w psu would be fine and a single stick of 4 gigs of the cheapest ram. yeah you could probably halve your budget and still get what you want it to do.
in this case i would suggest maybe an cheap i3 and a $50 msi or biosstar motherboard.
forget the ssd in this situation it may be more of an issue than a help. just get some cheap large hdds.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/HvDDhM $430 or there abouts.

But why do all the big streamers use an i7-4770k for their streaming PC's?

 

[HEXiT]

because they stream from the pc there playing on, you im guessing want to play your game and use the second computer to cap and broadcast to your streaming service. also i assumed you were just capping video streams not gaming streams because you picked a system with no gpu.
knowing that now i would suggest you buy a dedicated streaming box like you get for the ps3/4 it will do what you want but at around $200 it will do it cheaper than running a dedicated second pc. or stream off your current 1 and accept the 5-10 fps drop.

 

[flamefire999]

I get about 20 fps less when I stream. And no I mean people like GoldGloveTV, GiantWaffle and Sevadus. They all have dedicated streaming PC's with i7's. And this is a dedicated streaming PC, not a computer to game and stream on at the same time.