Want to start streaming PC games, what is the best CPU I can get for this (if my current one isn't good enough)?

[Chadow]

Hello guys,

I am looking to start streaming, I have no budget and was willing to buy a i7-5960x but someone told me that's mainly for video editing in 4K which I have intention of doing and that it is extremely overkill. I recently bought a 980ti which I know will do fine in regards to streaming.


My question is, I have currently have a AMD 8350, I've read that it does fine on streaming but I want to be absolutely certain. I also realize if I need to change out the processor, I'll need to change out my motherboard because it's a ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0.


Also, I just want the best price per performance ratio, if a 5960x offers a significant performance (enough to justify the price) over one of Intel's/AMD's processors, I'll still probably go with that. I would prefer to spend less obviously.


Any suggestions on processors/motherboards that I would need to get/are recommended would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Also interested in video rendering.

My current build (if anything here should be upgraded please let me know):

CPU: AMD 8 Core 8350 4.0 Ghz
HEATSINK: CNPS 10x Performa
RAM: 16gb of G-Skill 2033
GPU: Two GTX 680s in SLI (bought a 980ti to fix this)
MB: ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0
SSD: Samsung 840 Evo 250 GB
HARD DRIVE: 1 TB Hard Drive
MONITOR: BenQ XL2420G 144hz

 

[refaelagronov]

the 8350 good for streaming

 

[bailojustin]

Well for one, this may be my opinion and or fact, but your running an AMD CPU, one of the really nice ones, Mine to be exact, and I am able to stream and edit videos in the highest of resolution, the only difference I see and possible change is you have 2 GTX 680s in sli. Not a bad thing, but these are nvidea cards primarly used with Intel Cpus. I would reccommend switching to Radeon cards as some are specifically made to communicate directly with the CPU(APU) much faster and a few other perks that they have together. For example you will get access to AMD Dual Graphics, and AMD OVerdrive which allows you to all in one overclock the CPU/GPU, and memory. Also they support super virtual resolution, so you can display 4k graphics on moniters/tvs that normally would not support that high. This is all my opinion though, I thoroughly enjoy all of the little perks I get for my AMD built PC as it performs as good if not better then ones that cost 6 times as much.

http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/directx12

 

[need4speeds]

My system is a A6-3650@3.56ghz with crossfire 1gb HD-7850's.
It records games at 720p 40fps fine, and at 1080p 30fps at 80% quality.
Msi afterburner, MJPG compression and AVI. I have vsync on and frame pacing and the frame limiter set at 60fps. Most games are set at very high or high details and mostly maxed out settings.

Intel cpus haswell and newer have quicksync. I seen the box for it in handbrake. Open cl only does scaling and that only gives you a extra 5% in speed. It mostly compresses the x264 video on the cpu cores.

? Maybe some here have used quicksync?

Since you have a 980ti, it has cuda and there are many apps and programs that support cuda. Also check out nvidia's apps like shadowplay.

The FX8350 should work fine.

I suppose if you wanted to change cpus, your FX8350+mb would sell ok used.

The new i5-6600K and i7-6700K. (You will want to pick a board that is both sli and works with your existing memory.)

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/skylake-intel-core-i7-6700k-core-i5-6600k,4252.html

The i7-5960X is very expensive and the board is also a expensive workstation board. There is the i7-5930k and I7-5820K.

 

[need4speeds]

The 980ti is a awesome card i would keep that. It totally kills my pair of hd-7850's.