Can You Twitch Stream From a Budget Gaming PC?
2,232“what cpu do I need for streaming to twitch?”… now, “Common Knowledge” (AKA; People blindly repeating what they’ve ‘read on a forum’ somewhere, but have zero first-hand experience with) says you NEED a powerful, quad core, CPU like a high end i5 or better yet an i7 to cope with the processing requirements of Playing a game AND encoding a video, Streaming it to twitch… but… IS THAT TRUE?
Lets find out, but using a Budget based Gaming PC build, running a An i3 CPU and the most inexpensive current Nvidia GPU on the shelf, a GTX950 (Specifically a Skylake i3-6100, and a Gigabyte GTX950 OC Edition).
If you’re curious about the rest of the build, here’s a whole pile of videos about various aspects of it;
Build a Gaming PC - As Small as Possible… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5PzdrTK0o4
Link ot the post about this vid on the Nfan forums https://anz.forums.geforce.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1052
Steam Machine Gaming PC - The Build with No Name… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEbKE2Toi3g
The Amazing Case PC Gaming Build - Give it a Name… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP81betH51E
Low End $440 Gaming PC - Gameplay & Benchmarks - Is it OK? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKMMJB2OJNQ
Quiet, Sexy, Cool… LIKE ME! ;) - Maelstrom 120 Liquid Cooling Kit Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMf6Zq-RAGU
Is a Budget Gaming PC Ok For RISE OF THE TOMB RAIDER? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYhyqd2I3xc
Wanna stream?
Nvidia Geforce Share Beta http://www.geforce.com/geforce-experience/gfe-beta
OBS, aka “Open Broadcaster Software” https://obsproject.com/
Xsplit https://www.xsplit.com/
Music by http://www.teknoaxe.com/
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