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Chase Goodman

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Is buying a capture card for my PC provide better frame rate while recording rather than using software like XSplit? Also will live streaming to twitch.tv be better with a graphics card? If so which do you recommend me buying? Specs should be on my profile.
 
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Tom Tancredi
You always need some software to record with, but a capture card doesn't perform 'better', they were used with much older generations of video cards (back with 256 and 128MB of VRAM) to take the 'load' off the cards. Any of the Twitch.TV people I read / watched ALL say the same things:

Rule 1) 50% - Whatever your gaming at now your performance will cut 50%, so if you get 30FPS now, you will be 15% or less when recording / streaming
2) CPUs DO Matter - Almost everyone has had to go i7, simply because the amount of processing needed to encode the video, compress the video, then merge with the audio and compress the audio all takes CPU Processing to do, they are NOT GPU function.
3) Match a GPU - you can't game 2013/2014/2015 titles on...
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You always need some software to record with, but a capture card doesn't perform 'better', they were used with much older generations of video cards (back with 256 and 128MB of VRAM) to take the 'load' off the cards. Any of the Twitch.TV people I read / watched ALL say the same things:

Rule 1) 50% - Whatever your gaming at now your performance will cut 50%, so if you get 30FPS now, you will be 15% or less when recording / streaming
2) CPUs DO Matter - Almost everyone has had to go i7, simply because the amount of processing needed to encode the video, compress the video, then merge with the audio and compress the audio all takes CPU Processing to do, they are NOT GPU function.
3) Match a GPU - you can't game 2013/2014/2015 titles on anything LESS then a GTX 760 or AMD R9, especially if you wish to play in 1080P on High graphics and stream 720P (1080P streams are HIGHLY demanding and again see #2)
 
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Chase Goodman

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I have the MSI GTX 770 TF 4GB gpu and intel core i7 4770k cpu. So you would recommend not getting one then?
 
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Correct I do NOT recommend getting one then. Your fine on your hardware, and can potentially OVERCLOCK parts (do some research and be CAREFUL) to tweak it out more during gameplay/streaming. The ONLY issues left you need to consider is

1) What Internet Service Package you have (you need at least a Cable Internet package usually one that your OUT -NOT IN- is 5Mbps MINIMUM).
2) If you have ALOT of devices over your network (Bob's iPhone, Xbox, laptop PLUS Sally's Razer, laptop and Kindle, PLUS Mom's Laptop and iPhone, PLUS Dad's BluRay, DVR, Laptop, Android Tablet, iPhone, and Work phone) you will need to establish some Quality of Service (QoS) on all the devices and the router, then set the QoS table to put your stuff at higher priority (which may mean you interfere with Mom watching Sons of Anarchy on Netflix on her iPhone as she walks around the house).

Just something to consider.
 
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HA! This literally made me laugh out loud. I had to do this when my sister was hogging all my bandwith and just to play League of Legends off stream without dropping out to 200+ ping and lagging like an animal.
 
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