Capturecard or Capture box, will there be big differneces?

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GGWP1337

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Hello toms!
I'm thinking buying a capturecard, or a capture box, like Elgato..
I will mainly use it only for livestreaming gaming and stuff!
But i can't figure out if Elgato or a Capture card will decrease my FPS.
Setup: i7 2600 MSI P67A-GD65 Socket 1155 GTX 680 2GB 8GB ram 1866 mHZ.
I hope this is enough to help me guys! :)
 
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nukemaster
The Game Capture HD lists as being a hardware card.

The things that cause lag when streaming normal would be lots of data being written(low compression) OR high cpu usage when compressing.

A hardware card will deal with the compression thus reducing the data sets the system works with.

Please note this card is designed to capture at 30fps while allowing 60 to pass from HDMI IN to OUT(since this is well within the spec's of modern consoles). I am not sure how this works on computers what have such wild frame rates(and ones above 60).

In any case, Hardware encoders are the way to go for streamers.
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nukemaster

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Capturing with a hardware based solution(for compression) should not kill performance. Compressing for livestream may have am impact, but I would guess it would not be that big.

Just so you know, Shadowplay(Nvidia's hardware capture solution for GTX 650ti and newer) should support livestream soon.
 
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The Game Capture HD lists as being a hardware card.

The things that cause lag when streaming normal would be lots of data being written(low compression) OR high cpu usage when compressing.

A hardware card will deal with the compression thus reducing the data sets the system works with.

Please note this card is designed to capture at 30fps while allowing 60 to pass from HDMI IN to OUT(since this is well within the spec's of modern consoles). I am not sure how this works on computers what have such wild frame rates(and ones above 60).

In any case, Hardware encoders are the way to go for streamers.
 
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