Hello everyone,
I'm a very new Twitch streamer and I'm very well aware that, at this point, you need the highest quality possible for your stream to be found acceptable.
I recently tried streaming Fortnite and... it was a disaster, about 60% frame drop rate. Very frustrating. Not to mention unplayable lag.
Here is my current CPU:
Intel i5-3570k (ivy bridge, non-overclocked)
It's fairly old (6 years) and as such I'm more than ready for an upgrade. My question is as follows:
For heavy a heavy multi-tasking scenario where gaming is involved (usually heavily favours single-core performance as far as I know), which of the following options is better:
- Buy an I7-8700k
- Buy a current Gen Ryzen Threadripper (It's heavily discounted just about everywhere, is the increase in benchmarks heading into their 2nd Gen worth it?)
- Wait for the next gen of Ryzen
As far as my activities are concerned, I'm having an almost indescribable amount of fun streaming. At this point, I'd consider wanting to head into the direction of being a streamer above and beyond all else when using the computer. I've head a lot about 'x264 encoding' and how it's better when it's done on the CPU but I do not understand much about video encoding in general. If anyone could help me out with a detailed response, that would be great. I'm not a hardware guy as much as a software guy but I'm sure I can manage to understand your answer!
Before I forget, the top games I expect to stream are World of Warcraft : Battle for Azeroth, Fortnite and Runescape
I'm a very new Twitch streamer and I'm very well aware that, at this point, you need the highest quality possible for your stream to be found acceptable.
I recently tried streaming Fortnite and... it was a disaster, about 60% frame drop rate. Very frustrating. Not to mention unplayable lag.
Here is my current CPU:
Intel i5-3570k (ivy bridge, non-overclocked)
It's fairly old (6 years) and as such I'm more than ready for an upgrade. My question is as follows:
For heavy a heavy multi-tasking scenario where gaming is involved (usually heavily favours single-core performance as far as I know), which of the following options is better:
- Buy an I7-8700k
- Buy a current Gen Ryzen Threadripper (It's heavily discounted just about everywhere, is the increase in benchmarks heading into their 2nd Gen worth it?)
- Wait for the next gen of Ryzen
As far as my activities are concerned, I'm having an almost indescribable amount of fun streaming. At this point, I'd consider wanting to head into the direction of being a streamer above and beyond all else when using the computer. I've head a lot about 'x264 encoding' and how it's better when it's done on the CPU but I do not understand much about video encoding in general. If anyone could help me out with a detailed response, that would be great. I'm not a hardware guy as much as a software guy but I'm sure I can manage to understand your answer!
Before I forget, the top games I expect to stream are World of Warcraft : Battle for Azeroth, Fortnite and Runescape
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