My brother has an A6-6400k paired with a MSI A78m-E45, R7 260x i believe and 8gb of RAM. Now he plays COD on PS4 and streams through his elgato to twitch but says the video is choppy like the computer can't keep up. So i suggested getting an X4-860k because he doesn't want to change his motherboard from the FM2+ socket. Any suggestions appreciated! I think with the +2 cores he should notice a good difference in the computers capability. He doesn't game at all on the PC but will be using it for video editing and streaming.
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ajpaolello
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Assuming he does not want to change motherboard socket, a dedicated cpu would be better than the APU. i can't promise he will see a huge benefit, but there will be a slight benefit
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For me the 860k or and 870k (because of the price difference, why not?) seem to be a good idea, you could verify which one benefits you the most if you look at the processor usage during the stream, or use a software like MSI Afterburner to monitor GPU and CPU usage, it can be very useful, whichever is hitting high usage is most likely the culprit.
The processors are cheaper than the GPU upgrade and the 260x should be enough for the rendering acceleration, that is why I most likely think that the CPU is bottlenecking, also did you enable Hardware acceleration in the software?
The processors are cheaper than the GPU upgrade and the 260x should be enough for the rendering acceleration, that is why I most likely think that the CPU is bottlenecking, also did you enable Hardware acceleration in the software?
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