It's a good idea if you plan on being a serious streamer. If you just stream here & there... Then one PC is fine.

Lol did you even read?

Why do I need two computers to stream?
The short answer is, you don't. Streaming can quickly and easily be set up with one computer, and it will cost you less money to stream with one computer. 99% of all broadcasters will be perfectly fine streaming on one computer, and many of the top broadcasters on Twitch are able to stream with just one computer.

This post was edited by yupitsmeh on Dec 13 2016 10:57pm

If I were gonna spend a budget of 2 comps, I'd just make 1 super comp and spend the rest on something else, like getting shaft a hooker

I wouldn't put it like that; running a game on a main computer and having a computer only for streaming and encoding isn't as expensive as you make it to be.

6700K can stream just fine but can't go too high settings when playing CS:GO while holding that 200fps. If you're pushing the limit with the newest Battlefields and so on, there might be a point to just sticking to a 6600K + another PC, like a used multi-processor server or your old PC just so you get solid frames on your main PC ain't that bad - and it does it better than just upgrading from a 6600K to a 6700K or 6800K as random lag is part of streaming.

Obviously, this isn't for everyone, but for the ones wanting to actively stream high quality while playing the newest games? Yes. Another PC for that cause only costs a few hundred when you factor in the QoL stuff such as a capture card.

why not just spend on extreme i7? obs, relive, shadowplay arent really taxing at all, its just configuration

That guide is hella outdated.



LoL streamers almost always have i7-6700k (or better) with a GTX 1070 (or better). Seems to work just fine for the most popular streamed game on Twitch.

You're always going to be just fine with a regular i7, but it's only 'just fine'. Having a Youtube tab open, a few background processes and so on, there will be fluctuations. If you're playing an extremely heavy game like BF1, you're going to momentally hit the cap of available processing power eventually when OBS happens to hog more juice at the same time.

Having an old i5 computer do you the job (or a retired server setup) will remove those lagspikes caused by CPU encoding, and does it well.

I have a few active streamers in my friends and most of them use a i5/i7 and do just fine and dandy. I have spent considerable time in order to help one of them enhance their stream quality and have often come to a performance wall with the i7. That encouraged me to try to push the limits of the i7 6700K as well - only to come to the conclusion that the setup is good, but has it's limits.

And meanwhile one of my mates just walks to a house-LAN with a spare laptop and uses it for encoding, resulting in a hitch-free better-looking stream and never has hickups or frame drops in-game. And that's a mobile i7, 2000 series.

Go figure.

Are you using nvidia or amd encoders in obs?

Not outdated mate, was posted a month ago. It's just giving examples of the difference between a streaming comp and a gaming comp

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