Advice on setup for seperate streaming PC

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Ryel

Ryel

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Hello tom'sHardware,

I would like to see advantageous to use the components from my old rig to use as a seperate streaming PC, and to understand exactly what I would need in addition to make it work.

New Rig Components:
i7 4770K chipset
MSI z87 gd65 mobo
MSI twin frozr Radeon HD 6900
8 GB corsair vengeance 1866GHz RAM
1TB hitachi HDD
120GB PNY SSD (trash! imo)
775W ps

Left-over Components:
i7 930
asus p6t se mobo
12 GB 1333 GHz kingston RAM
1 TB hitachi hdd

That's what I've got at the moment, and I may have a few extra things lying around. What I need to know is whether or not I can use what I've got there to put together a seperate 'streaming' PC with high-end quality, or if it would be better to just focus on the new rig.

If it is a good idea to use the old components in a streaming PC, what else would I need? A capture card? another ps? I don't believe I would need another graphics card...

All help is appreciated.

Ryel
 
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Ryel

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Thanks vrumor. I have to be honest, I am kinda going for overkill here.

Are you saying that with the main PC setup, there is no need for the additional streaming PC, even on high quality everything everywhere everyhow?
 
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vrumor

vrumor

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Well im sure you could use your main rig for streaming purposes to other devices without noticing it too much. But id suggest a dedicated HTPC and use it as a server for streaming and whatever else you want to use it for. That is what im doing, it basically just streams to our bedroom which has a basic Roku device hooked up to the TV. Using Plex Server from the living room it streams up to 1080p whever its needed.
 
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