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I want to stream Fortnite and R6 siege through OBS to YT gaming.

My current setup is a GTX 1050 2G and a Pentium G4560. This simply can't keep up.

I am in a predicament. i5 8600K or the Ryzen 1600X? I plan to get a 1060 6G or 1070 later this fall. I am more concerned about the CPU at the current time. What would you recommend?
 
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As long as your video program is well multi-threaded it will outperform the i5 every time. The Ryzen chips are powerhouses when it comes to productivity and multimedia software. They hit well above their weight class compared to Intel. You won't be disappointed with its rendering speed. A 1600X with a good chunk or RAM and a decent video card makes for a fantastic budget 4k editing machine.
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I forgot to add that I will be editing video with Davinci Resolve. I would assume that can keep up? Mainly 1080p and a little 4K rendering later on.
 
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For pure gaming at 1080 the i5 would win hands down compared with a 1600X, but the Ryzen would be better, as has already been said, for streaming, so either way you're going to have to compromise performance in one area.

Check the local pricing carefully against your total budget, you may be able to squeeze a R7 1700 in, which would be far better for streaming than even the 1600X.
 
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As long as your video program is well multi-threaded it will outperform the i5 every time. The Ryzen chips are powerhouses when it comes to productivity and multimedia software. They hit well above their weight class compared to Intel. You won't be disappointed with its rendering speed. A 1600X with a good chunk or RAM and a decent video card makes for a fantastic budget 4k editing machine.
 
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agree with Justin, partly with coozie. Read this : https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/game-streaming-encoding-coffee-lake-ryzen,review-34144.html

This will give you all the data you need. For higher quality video output the 1600x is the way to go. It gives smooth video , along with 90% of the FPS of the 8600k, but with little or no FPS drops. On the opposite side, the 8600k video output has dropped frames, and can't maintain a smooth gaming experience (this is at high video/streaming settings). Dial it down a notch and balance output with FPS, and the 8600k is still respectable.

edit: I have a 1600x OC'ed to 3.9. It's friggin awesome. It eats everything i throw at it, including my forays into streaming. The 8600k is a great gaming chip, but the extra threads and host processing resources swing the balance to the Ryzen. As, justin said, the Ryzen is an allrounder, but a powerhouse. The 8600k is really good at gaming, but not so hot at multitasking, but still much better than the last gen I5.
 
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I'm gonna go different here and say 7700k. Why? you will have to replace your motherboard for any other CPU you mentioned and the 7700k while not as good will save you some money and work on your current board. You didn't give us a budget here.

If you have the budget for more then sure, move up.
 
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I respect your difference. It is actually a great idea, although, it would leave ThatGamerJake still behind where he wants to be. At that point we should just recommend that he buys an RX 570 or 580 and use AMD's streaming encoding from the GPU. It would cost around the same as the 7700K and he'd be getting a graphics card upgrade in the process.
 
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He'd still have a dual core cpu though which for some games (R6 specifically) can be too weak. Plus he plans to get a 1070. He really can't go wrong with a 7700k. BUT all depends on his budget like I said.
 
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Kaby lake just ain't that great for Gaming Streaming. Sufficient, but Ryzen and Coffee Lake are the way to go.
 
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I agree, hence why mine is a budget response (since he is clearly budget limited) but he needs to get back with what he was thinking of spending.
 
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