Looking for a cheap streaming building for WoW and minecraft

starstruck7514

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Hi, I'm kinda new to the whole streaming world. I was wondering if anyone has a 250-300 dollar build I can stream wow and minecraft on at okay settings.
 
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Hello starstruck7514,

This solid tight budget gaming build will allow you to stream WoW and Minecraft with at least medium graphical fidelity @1080/720p:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($64.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($45.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($48.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive...

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Hello starstruck7514,

This solid tight budget gaming build will allow you to stream WoW and Minecraft with at least medium graphical fidelity @1080/720p:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($64.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($45.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($48.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($34.40 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R7 250X 1GB Video Card ($72.98 @ Newegg)
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Case: Enermax Thorex ATX Mid Tower Case ($24.99 @ Newegg)
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Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($34.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $327.13
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-15 05:09 EDT-0400

Notes:

- The G3258 processor is a budget gaming beast that can handle all modern games comfortably. Can be overclocked easily to 3.8-4.0GHz by updating the H81 Chipset based MSI H81M-P33 motherboard BIOS. All major motherboard manufacturers had confirmed thal any H81/87/97 chipset based motherboards can be used to overclock the G3258 after updating the BIOS of those boards.

- This motherboard also allows you to upgrade to any Haswell i3/i5/i7 processors in future.

- The MSI R7 250X is a capable budget graphics card that can handle all modern games with medium graphical fidelity @1080/720p. Only requires a 430W PSU that can deliver 19Amps or more on its +12V rail.

- The EVGA 80+ Certified 500W PSU that can deliver 40Amps on its +12V rail, which is more than enough for this build. Gives you the option in future to upgrade to mid/high graphics cards like GTX970/980, R9 270/270X/380/R7 370 etc.

Overclocking Guide:
[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT0JMlUSCGo"]Intel Pentium G3258 + MSI H81M-P33 Overclocking Guide - The Simple Way[/video]

Check this video in which the person playing Minecraft (Custom Shaders) on decent settings with slightly inferior graphics card MSI R7 250 1GB OC than the one suggested here, gets a solid 35+ FPS that too with only 6GB RAM:
[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAxC6hMxNRM"][/video]
With the above suggested config you should get a better performance than what you see in this video.

Cheers!
 
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