Upgrade advice - GPU vs Dedicated streaming PC

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nerdymn24

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First post on here, but with the lack of friends in the field, I figured I would post the place I get most of my information.

Looking to upgrade performance, looking at the price I am at a stand still. With parts laying around my house, I could build a dedicated streaming PC for the same price as it would cost to upgrade my GPU.

Current Setup -

- i7-5820K
- X99 2011-V3 Mobo
- GTX 970 4GB
- 500 GB SSD
- 16GB DDR4
- Win 10 Pro
- BenQ 240hz Monitor (+2 Monitors for streaming)

Looking at GTX 1080/1080TI $500~$750

Looking at benchmarks and reading, looks like it would be a noticeable upgrade from my GTX970.

But in enters this little guy

Possible Dedicated PC - ~$650 in parts

- i3-8100 (Coffee)
- LGA 1151 (300 Series)
- 8GB DDR4
- GTX 950 (Incase it needs to be used)
- 1TB HDD
- Elgato HD60 Pro
- Win 7 Pro

So I would be able to run a single monitor for my gaming PC, as well as the other two on my streaming PC. Thoughts?
 
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RememberThe5th
Then seems like viable option to go for dedicated streaming pc, if it eats that much.
You can use obs plugin via ethernet without elgato as Ive tried out and it worked fine for 720p 30 fps on Q6600 eitj 2GB of ram xD just as capture not streaming as i have slow network.

Well just wait another day for other opinions cause Im not very well experienced.
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RememberThe5th

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For dedicated streaming system and gaming system needs dual ethernet ports, internet-gaming pc-streaming pc-twitch.
For streaming pc you need only cpu with igpu, no need for anotger gpu. Also to add when streaming with cpu it gives higher quality image than gpu, eg. cpu or x264 encoding is clear image but nvec is a bit muddier.

But in case you could stream with with gaming system only with small perfomance hit with GPU/nvec but as I said image would be a bit muddier.

Also what is your upload speed?
 
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nerdymn24

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I have dual ethernet ports on my gaming PC. I would also have dual ethernet on the streaming PC if I built it. Using 5000 bitrate, upload is around 9~11 mb's.

Streaming currently robs me of about 40-60 fps ingame. Depending on the game, in this instance we will use fortnite for example. I am outputting in nvec right now, but could try going back to x264.

The reason for the video card on the streaming PC is only so that it can be used as a second PC if a friend is over. Not for streaming gains.
 
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Then seems like viable option to go for dedicated streaming pc, if it eats that much.
You can use obs plugin via ethernet without elgato as Ive tried out and it worked fine for 720p 30 fps on Q6600 eitj 2GB of ram xD just as capture not streaming as i have slow network.

Well just wait another day for other opinions cause Im not very well experienced.
 
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