Streaming PC build £800ish?

f2t · 26 Nov 2020 at 15:17

Im looking to build a PC and need it to be up and running in the next week or thereabouts so need parts that are all in stock.

It will me mainly used for streaming (via external cameras not gaming) to twitch and some additional use for music production. I guess the graphics card will need to be half decent to deal with 2/3 cameras?

Can anyone recommend me a build? Thinking the Ryzen 5 3600 and last time I looked people were recommending the B450 Tomahawk Max. Still the best options?

f2t · 27 Nov 2020 at 10:03

f2t · 27 Nov 2020 at 11:04

Is this a good start?

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £89.99
1 x WD Blue SN550 1TB NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS100T2B0C)= £85.99
1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £229.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2B32= £68.99
1 x PowerColor Radeon RX 5600 XT Dragon RX 6144MB 14GBPS GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £329.99

Total: £816.05 (includes shipping: £11.10)

mickyflinn · 27 Nov 2020 at 11:27

Hi that is more a gaming /streaming machine I'm not sure you need such a high spec but my knowledge is limited in this department.

@Plec @pc-guy @EsaT @Gray2233 @Quartz may have more input.

iamtheoneneo · 27 Nov 2020 at 13:41

How are connecting the cameras? Normally Elgato/Avidmedia devices such as the camlink are used not the graphics card.
https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/cam-link-4k

f2t · 27 Nov 2020 at 13:58

We have 2 usb webcams and one sony DSLR via a similar thing to the Elgato. We then use OBS to switch between then cameras and do overlays etc.

EsaT · 27 Nov 2020 at 14:51

For non-gaming use graphics card could definitely be cheaper.

pc-guy · 27 Nov 2020 at 19:14

No idea what that required tbh.

I would have thought an iGPU would be sufficient.

something like a SFf machine like Lenovo thinkcentre nano or Micro.

I can’t imagine the computational demand is that high.

music production. Again no idea what that entails mate. I would have though a decent sound card and a decent software is more important than the actual hardware. Music encoding is extremely fast on modern systems. Even real time.