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Core 9000 series

Journey said:
The difference saved between an Intel & AMD system would pretty much allow a jump in tier from say a GTX 1070 to a GTX 1080Ti and net you a much bigger increase in what ever you are using it for even with the additional OBS overhead on it. Or alternatively, you could just buy a second card, GTX 1030 for £60, and then have your backup card and that would do the encoding.

I guess if you aren't looking for value per pound spent then Intel is the obvious choice, but if you even care slightly about it then Intel cannot currently be considered seriously with prices as they are.
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Yes you are right in terms of money spent, and that you could buy a better card, but then you have the h.264 output quality to consider, the intel iGPU is vastly superior to nvenc for quality production. And back in the day I had an AMD card and tried doing it on that, and got missing frames and all sorts, so AMD is out the window for that kind of video processing for the way I use it.
 
Journey said:
I find it rather odd that there are no decent MATX X470 boards also, but given the rather limited difference between most ATX and MATX case sizes then I don't think it should be a deal breaker, 5.9cm seems like not a great deal of extra height and unless you are going ITX in which case there is a big space/size saving involved.
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There are no mATX X470 full stop! There are a few mATX B450s but there are all rather entry-level/average.
I have a nice compact mATX case which I'd rather not have to sacrifice.
 
icehot666 said:
Yes you are right in terms of money spent, and that you could buy a better card, but then you have the h.264 output quality to consider, the intel iGPU is vastly superior to nvenc for quality production. And back in the day I had an AMD card and tried doing it on that, and got missing frames and all sorts, so AMD is out the window for that kind of video processing for the way I use it.
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What does "back in the day" mean? I have an RX 480 and it can do real time HEVC encoding at 1080p with ease (haven't tried higher resolutions). You always need stupidly high bitrates with GPU encoding though; if you want quality at reasonable bitrates you need to use CPU encoding.
 
Journey said:
I find it rather odd that there are no decent MATX X470 boards also, but given the rather limited difference between most ATX and MATX case sizes then I don't think it should be a deal breaker, 5.9cm seems like not a great deal of extra height and unless you are going ITX in which case there is a big space/size saving involved.
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I have a Corsair 350D, so can’t use ATX :-(
 
Journey said:
Ah yes, but spending £200+ more on a CPU just to keep a case worth £100 seems a bit odd to me. :confused:
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There's nothing odd about it. People base their purchase choices on many things, you're obsessed with cost whereas others value form factor. Personally, I've invested a lot of time, money and effort into an ITX build so why would I want to switch to ATX?

There are endless reasons why someone would choose to disregard a cost saving.
 
String said:
There's nothing odd about it. People base their purchase choices on many things, you're obsessed with cost whereas others value form factor. Personally, I've invested a lot of time, money and effort into an ITX build so why would I want to switch to ATX?

There are endless reasons why someone would choose to disregard a cost saving.
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As I previously stated, in a post prior to the one above I actually said, going from ITX to ATX is kind of a different kettle of fish.

Also I am hardly obsessed with cost, but currently the Intel option is plain and simply overpriced and will be for sometime to come unfortunately. Take an 8700K which only 4/5 months ago was selling for £280, and is now over £450 that is being ripped off, not disregarding a cost saving.
 
AthlonXP1800 said:
I was on Gigabyte website and just noticed Z390 motherboards are now listed.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Intel-Z390
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What's the lowest spec I can get away with in this setup:

- 9900k OC on air only
-16GB RAM
- 1TB SSD (already have it)
- need 10+ usb ports. max is usb 3.0. Mainly for simrig components and VR
- 2080ti
- Onboard audio. Nothing critical just VR headband audio and basic youtube etc.

I don't care for RGB or a bunch of fluff that I'll never use.
 
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