Best Build For Recording and Streaming Gameplay at 30fps 720p?

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Total newbie to all things PC here. I've been doing let's plays on YouTube for a while now and things are starting to catch some speed, so I decided to upgrade my setup in order to record more games. To put things into perspective, I've been using a Macbook up until now, no capture card or anything. The premier gaming platform, I know.

I just need a machine that'll record most games at least at 30fps and 720p at decent settings. Like Player Unknown Battlegrounds and Borderlands 2, for random examples. And if I need to lower the settings to make up for putting a ridiculous amount of headbutters in TABS, no sweat.

I'm definitely expecting to buy a capture card, and I don't need a 1TB drive or anything if it's too expensive. I'm trying to keep the cost pretty lean, around $1000 maybe, but going over isn't a huge deal. I'm saving up the money right now by building websites for small businesses in my area, so it's in the process.

If anyone can give me any help or advice, I will be grateful to you for the rest of my days.
 
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James Mason
Basically what Maarsch was suggesting. A capture card is only used for dual PC streaming setup or for capturing game consoles. You want/need a dedicated hard drive for recordings to go to, otherwise they get laggy, so install the games (and OS) on the SSD and put your recordings and other media files (and games you aren't going to record) on the HDD.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($197.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: *ASRock - AB350M-HDV Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($64.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: *GeIL - EVO POTENZA 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($111.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: *Western Digital - Blue 250GB...
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I won't arrange anything in pcpartpicker for you atm as I have a fever and I'll <ModEdit> something up. Maybe cost you a lot of money, maybe I'll only make an <ModEdit> of myself.

But with a Ryzen 5 and something in GTX1060/RX580 range you should be well set for $1000
Depending on whether you have an OS laying about.
You'll need a monitor as well, but no reason to spend loads on that as you can stay on 1080p with your target performance.
And you'll want an SSD, not a HDD. Prices on those have come down quite a bit. 720p/30fps footage files aren't that huge.

With a 1PC config you can't use a capture card.
The whole idea behind those are to take the output (you playing a game) of one PC (or console) and then import it somewhere else which then handles the encoding/uploading. Unless you want your macbook to do the encoding.
But the Ryzen5 has more than enough cores laying about to be able to handle the encoding next to the gameplay.


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Thanks so much for the reply! Especially the capture card part, I was under the impression that you plugged it into a computer and it took on the processing stress of recording the screen.

Quick question, what OS would you suggest for gaming and recording? I heard that Windows 10 makes PC's a little slower. Is Windows 7 better? Or like, 8?

Last thing, should I be concerned with the difficulty of building my own PC? I've never done anything like it before.

Thanks for being so generous with your time!
 
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Basically what Maarsch was suggesting. A capture card is only used for dual PC streaming setup or for capturing game consoles. You want/need a dedicated hard drive for recordings to go to, otherwise they get laggy, so install the games (and OS) on the SSD and put your recordings and other media files (and games you aren't going to record) on the HDD.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($197.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: *ASRock - AB350M-HDV Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($64.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: *GeIL - EVO POTENZA 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($111.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: *Western Digital - Blue 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($89.99 @ B&H)
Storage: *Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.88 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: *EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB GAMING Video Card ($269.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair - SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: *EVGA - B3 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.89 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: *Microsoft - Windows 10 Home Full - USB 32/64-bit ($102.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $995.69
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-07-27 13:32 EDT-0400

And if you need a monitor, keyboard and mouse. (weaker GPU, but for 720p should be fine)

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($197.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: *ASRock - AB350M-HDV Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($64.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: *GeIL - EVO POTENZA 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($111.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: *Western Digital - Blue 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($89.99 @ B&H)
Storage: *Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.88 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: *Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Video Card ($145.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Corsair - SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: *EVGA - B3 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.89 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: *Microsoft - Windows 10 Home Full - USB 32/64-bit ($102.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Monitor: AOC - G2260VWQ6 21.5" 1920x1080 75Hz Monitor ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Keyboard: Redragon - K551 Wired Gaming Keyboard ($39.99 @ Amazon)
Mouse: Redragon - Centrophorus M601 Wired Optical Mouse ($12.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $1024.67
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-07-27 13:39 EDT-0400
 
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