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SBennett13

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Hello tech friends.

Currently I run a 2 PC setup for gaming and streaming on Twitch (Yes I have basically no following). PC1: 4790k OCed, H110i, Asus Z97A, 980 FTW, 16GB Ripjawz | PC2: 4770 stock OC, H60, Asus b85,

I am moving away to college in the fall and am unsure of lugging my second PC around. Should I minor upgrade the second one (+ssd, +gpu) and sell it, using that money to upgrade to a six core, new mobo and ram in PC1, or just keep both?

Would be most likely looking to upgrade to either the 5930k or a 6800k. Just looking for input from other people who understand/love computers.
 
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well on BF4 I have a stable 40-60 fps on ultra while streaming, wow and fallout 4 never seem to drop under the 60fps for me.
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I would say get rid of PC2 and upgrade to a i7-6700k as that will be able to run any game and twitch stream without any issue. I game and stream on my i5-6600k without an issue so the 6700k will just be better.
 
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I suggest you encode using a hardware encoder such as NVidia's NVENC when using Shadowplay.

This have minimal impact on the CPU and game performance.

There's really no need to upgrade your system if you do that.

*What exactly is the 2nd PC doing?
**What is the gaming performance if you do everything on your main PC?

One of the issues isn't even really PC performance it's the ISP capability for upload bandwidth.
 
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The second PC is taking the video of my game from my main PC and then streaming it to the twitch server. High Bitrate streaming/recording. For CS, there isn't a performance issue. I'm not sure about other more intensive games such as DayZ, ArmA, or Fallout 4.
 
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well on BF4 I have a stable 40-60 fps on ultra while streaming, wow and fallout 4 never seem to drop under the 60fps for me.
 
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