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[SOLVED] Wanting to upgrade my PC to stream, will this work?

Mar 9, 2021
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Hey guy's, new here and not incredibly PC savvy.

I currently have a 1060 Nvidia, with a ryzen 3 3200g, and it runs games like league of legends fine at 1280x720, but I tried to play valorant and it just stumbled the entire time.

I was looking at an alienware PC that has a i7 10700kf and 2060 6gb rtx with OC. and 32gb of dual hyperx ram, would that run valorant on stream at a pretty good setting without stumbling? or could I upgrade my current rig with those two items, I'm scared to do that because of upgrading my BIOS people said some crazy things can happen, or if theres a better build maybe you guys could clarify for me, I stream for fun, but I want to grow a community for sure and want them to see the best clarity and lag free play they can, I'll be running a 1080P webcam also, any information really helps, I know how to put a PC together and stuff but have never updated a BIOS or anything of the sort.

thank you! I also use streamelements.
 
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Hey guy's, new here and not incredibly PC savvy.

I currently have a 1060 Nvidia, with a ryzen 3 3200g, and it runs games like league of legends fine at 1280x720, but I tried to play valorant and it just stumbled the entire time.

I was looking at an alienware PC that has a i7 10700kf and 2060 6gb rtx with OC. and 32gb of dual hyperx ram, would that run valorant on stream at a pretty good setting without stumbling? or could I upgrade my current rig with those two items, I'm scared to do that because of upgrading my BIOS people said some crazy things can happen, or if theres a better build maybe you guys could clarify for me, I stream for fun, but I want to grow a community for sure and want them to see the best clarity and lag free...
Hey guy's, new here and not incredibly PC savvy.

I currently have a 1060 Nvidia, with a ryzen 3 3200g, and it runs games like league of legends fine at 1280x720, but I tried to play valorant and it just stumbled the entire time.

I was looking at an alienware PC that has a i7 10700kf and 2060 6gb rtx with OC. and 32gb of dual hyperx ram, would that run valorant on stream at a pretty good setting without stumbling? or could I upgrade my current rig with those two items, I'm scared to do that because of upgrading my BIOS people said some crazy things can happen, or if theres a better build maybe you guys could clarify for me, I stream for fun, but I want to grow a community for sure and want them to see the best clarity and lag free play they can, I'll be running a 1080P webcam also, any information really helps, I know how to put a PC together and stuff but have never updated a BIOS or anything of the sort.

thank you! I also use streamelements.
The Alienware probably cost a small fortune but it will run that game while streaming. If there wasn't a gpu shortage atm it would be cheaper to upgrade your current system.
 
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The Alienware probably cost a small fortune but it will run that game while streaming. If there wasn't a gpu shortage atm it would be cheaper to upgrade your current system.
Yeah I noticed that, the only thing I could find was a 3070 and I thought that would be overkill anyways, and it's about 1300$ for the build with the GPU upgrade from a 1060 and upgraded RAM and wifi card and the upgraded CPU.

Thank you though! Ill go for it :)
 
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