HI everyone,
I need some help with trying to figure out what CPU I should get for a Gaming & Streaming build.
The CPU that I have in mind to go with is the either the 1950X or the 1920X Threadripper, I originally thought about going with the Threadripper b/c I know for a fact that it can get the job done, and if I can afford it, then why not? I brought this up to one of my friends who knows a bit about computers and he said that using a Threadripper might be a bit over kill for just streaming and gaming which I'm aware of.
He suggested that I also look at other options which are the i7-8700k, i7-7800x, either one of the i9s (with are probably still too much money), the Ryzen 7 1800x, or he said I could wait until the new Ryzen chips release. I know that Intel CPUs will possibly allow for more frames than the Ryzen CPUs, but I don't really care for high frame rates, the monitor I have now is 60hz but if I ever get a new monitor that can do higher frame rates, I would maybe only go up to 120 FPS.
**Before thinking of just streaming and gaming off the same build, I was originally planning on doing a dual PC setup. The reason I became conflicted between the two routes was because I thought it would just be a headache trying to mix and manage the audio from two PCs. The only thing I'm skeptical about with streaming and gaming of the same build is if I'll run into any instances where either the game will interfere with the encoding of the stream, or the steam encoding would interfere with the performance of the game.**
I need some help with trying to figure out what CPU I should get for a Gaming & Streaming build.
The CPU that I have in mind to go with is the either the 1950X or the 1920X Threadripper, I originally thought about going with the Threadripper b/c I know for a fact that it can get the job done, and if I can afford it, then why not? I brought this up to one of my friends who knows a bit about computers and he said that using a Threadripper might be a bit over kill for just streaming and gaming which I'm aware of.
He suggested that I also look at other options which are the i7-8700k, i7-7800x, either one of the i9s (with are probably still too much money), the Ryzen 7 1800x, or he said I could wait until the new Ryzen chips release. I know that Intel CPUs will possibly allow for more frames than the Ryzen CPUs, but I don't really care for high frame rates, the monitor I have now is 60hz but if I ever get a new monitor that can do higher frame rates, I would maybe only go up to 120 FPS.
**Before thinking of just streaming and gaming off the same build, I was originally planning on doing a dual PC setup. The reason I became conflicted between the two routes was because I thought it would just be a headache trying to mix and manage the audio from two PCs. The only thing I'm skeptical about with streaming and gaming of the same build is if I'll run into any instances where either the game will interfere with the encoding of the stream, or the steam encoding would interfere with the performance of the game.**
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