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wireless power-house gaming

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September 17, 2014 11:43:15 AM

i was wondering if i want to build a power house graphical system with either rossfire or sli would and wanted to stream that power to a tablet and a controller or to a tv ect, what would be better for streaming getting nvidia products and graphics cards or would having amd crossfire work just as well for streaming usi8ng somthing like steam streaming service

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September 17, 2014 2:37:33 PM

First off, you can spend $5000 on a PC system and still have terrible performance to your 'tablet' or 'steambox' (the steambox plugs into the TV, you can't "play" games on a TV by itself) device you want to 'stream' the game to. It all depends on 3 parts,

1) as you said a powerful enough system but you don't need a power-house. Any normal $1000 PC gaming system can do this.
2) the device that 'picks it up', the tablet or steambox, etc. There are multiple options each has their pluses and minuses, mainly minuses (first gen, only specific games work, etc.) currently as this is still new and MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE then just investing in a PS4 which can play not only the PC games BUT many games NOT available on PC, all at 'PC level' (60FPS, 1080P, Hiugh graphics). For example the models touted for a Steambox ranged from $700-2500 ON TOP OF the $1000 to $2000 paying for a PC to 'stream from'.
3) A high end network dedicated to the gaming platform OVER anyone else's iPhone, surfing, watching Netflix, etc. Additionally even with a 802.11N network, if any device (older iPhone, Kindle, etc.) using slower connection (802.11G) will cause the router to 'slow down' all connection to match the lowest speed connection. Even more as each additional device other than the PC / Steambox is connected, takes away one cycle of 'connecting' to send OR receive data and adds up. So for example common 4 person home with 4 cell phones, 4 computers, 2 e-books, 2 consoles (total 12 devices) would take an additional 12 'cycles' of "Who wants to Send / Receive" from the router BEFORE getting to the Steam box OR PC. This of course can become additional lag even if no one was streaming Netflix, playing Spotify, downloading from Steam, etc. Now you CAN go 802.11AC (newest standard) but again more 'older devices' on the network will have some impact.
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September 17, 2014 2:53:25 PM

The Router, and the signal in-between is very important.

For comparison: I have an older 560 SLI rig, and a higher-end Net-gear Nighthawk 1900A/C. That has no problem Steam-streaming 60FPS in Borderlands 2 and Bioshock: Infinite to my lower-end laptop (i3 with no dedicated graphics) @ 720p. Before I upgraded the router, I could barely get 10FPS, and most games would just time out.

Also, the only Tablets I know of that can have games streamed to them are the NVIDIA Shield series, which require a NVIDIA 700 series or higher card. I'm not sure if they take advantage of SLI either...
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September 18, 2014 1:12:51 AM

well i was wondering in setting up my next graphics config although i have a 280x now i was wondering if i should start buying nvidia products for future streaming
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September 18, 2014 10:15:10 AM

I went Nvidia only because I intended and needed over 60Hz displays (using a 120Hz right now) and AMD refuses to support above 60Hz (though MAYBE now with 4K out and all that they will change their minds finally). Either or works just fine IMHO, you just need to match up the GPU to the same level as the CPU and vice versa if you want maximize the FPS. With the 2013+ games if you have one 'stronger' then the other, you lose out and won't maximize for that game, which all demand the highest performance hardware you can afford.
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September 18, 2014 10:30:10 AM

Again, NVIDIA is the only option if you want to stream to an NVIDIA Shield Tablet. Unless there's hax out there to get around it. And maybe AMD will have their own Tablet streaming in the future?

As Tom said, CPU choice is also more important for streaming, both on the server and client. It will be tasked with encoding the game on the server, and decoding on the client. Again, my Intel i5-3570 was enough to get the job done on the server, and the mobile i5 on my client was enough (for current gen games anyway).

All of that is of course moot, if you don't have the right network infrustructure. Plan to research routers and drop at least $100-200 on a higher end model.
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