Is this setup good enough for 1080p gaming, recording and livestreaming?

nunonunes097

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Hello everyone! So I've just ordered these new PC parts (building my first desktop) and I was wondering if I would be capable of gaming and recording at 1080p and medium-high settings, confortably above 60fps, as well as livestreaming to twitch playing at 1080p (obviously not at the same time as recording :D) downscaled to 720p, all of this whilst keeping a good cool and safe temperature, especially for the CPU, since I won't buy any aftermarket fans and am relying on the stock coolers!

Here are the parts:


CPU: Intel Core I5 6400 2.7GHz 6MB BOX

GPU: Msi GTX1060 OC 6GB GDDR5 PCI-E

Motherboard: Gigabyte H110M-S2H Intel H110 SK1151

Case: NOX Hummer MC - Black

RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport Black DDR4 8GB 2400Mhz Cas16

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB SATAIII 64MB (6GB/s)

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80PLUS


So yea tell me what you think and thank you all very much in advance for all the help I've received these last weeks. This forum has been crazy helpful in this first desktop building journey thing :D
 
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That build is not bad. I would recommend getting a 8GBx2 RAM set. This will allow the editing to be small. If you are recording, i assume you will be doing that. Also, if you can upgrade to a i5-6600 or i7-6700 (both non K) give you that extra push that you need to have much better performance. Other than that, everything looks pretty good to me.
 


Recording with the nvidia recorder (whatever it's called nowadays it's no long shadowplay but whatever) will be no problem at all. However streaming is a totally different thing. You need a very good cpu to do this so an i7 6700k is recommended. Especially if you are playing cpu intensive games. Btw for recording it is best that you have an ssd or secondary hdd where on the 1 hdd you have the games installed and on the other one you store the recording. This will eliminate long load times or fps drops in the recording.
 
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colionecrowder

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I agree with this 100%