Upgrade question for gaming/streaming

neil1979

neil1979

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Hi all,

Just after some advice on possibly upgrading my pc. I built this (fist pc ever) in late 2021 and it seems to run most games in high/ultra settings but I am wanting to get into streaming (twitch/YouTube) and recording my stream to then edit and upload to youtube I'm not sure if this will handle it all, gaming, streaming, discord etc

I game on the G7 and use the G5 for discord at the moment but that will be used for the twitch stream also. Would this be enough to handle it all?

I plan on playing Star citizen/Division/starfield/Cyberpunk or those type of games on it. I know Star citizen is CPU intensive or that's what I read and that's what I feel I would need to upgrade the most possibly?

I would like to stick with intel and Nvidia if I could. Not sure on budget, don't want to go crazy but want something that will be future proof but also run things smoothly and at a decent setting.

Samsung G5 144hz & G7 244hz 1440p

CPU: Intel Core i5-12600K

GPU: Nvidia RTX 3070-Ti 8gb

SSD: WDC WDS200T2BOC-OOPXHO 2TB

HDD: Seagate Expansion 1TB (just an old HD I had lying around. Just used for storage)

RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4X16GB

MBD: MSI PRO Z690-A WIFI DDR4

I think my PSU is 750 bit will check when I get home.

Any advise would be great.

Cheers
 
As said, I'd just give it a go, that's a pretty decent system you have there. If you have any problems then come back.
 
Looks to me there's not much room to upgrade IYSWIM, it's pretty topped out spec wise. So the next thing to do is test out your use case and if something is limiting you, it's likely a setup thing. That means you may want one machine for playing the game on and a separate one for the capture, encode, upload, audio etc.

Honestly though that's a very solid PC setup, so I'd jump in and try it. You'll get much better advice on exact streaming configuration like bitrates, resolution etc if you find some streaming communities to chat to. Perhaps join a Discord for streamers where you can talk to people who already stream the games you play.
 
neil1979 said:
Hi tamzzy, So you think this could handle me streaming and playing on high/ultras settings and good FPS etc?
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Yes. Nvenc has little overhead so you should not see too much of an FPS drop from your end

NVENC is NVIDIA’s encoder. It’s a physical section of our GPUs that is dedicated to encoding only. This means that your GPU can operate normally regardless of whether you use this region to stream or record.
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Cheers for the advice everyone. I'm going to have a play around with it and see how it goes and performs. Will come back if I have any issues/questions

Cheers
 
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