I've been recently I've been thinking about trying to improve my computer for streaming by possibly getting a video capture card. I've been looking on newegg and there's some for ~$100 that seem pretty good, although my main worry is that all of them have negative comments about crashes/freezes/not working with xsplit. Are these video capture cards even worthwhile or should I just save up and upgrade my processor/mobo or whatever? My issue that I CAN stream currently at 720p with dxtory, but depending on the game I get pretty low frame rates. I can stream League of Legends/Dota 2 on highest settings with a 30 fps with a few spikes, SC2 on low/medium with textures on high at 30 fps as well (although big battles can be spiky), but for example GW2 I could not stream at all this past beta weekend (first I thought it was drivers, tried to update, still got <20 fps and crashed twice). Now maybe this is because the game isn't optimized but either way I'd like to stream it in the future at a comfortable 30 fps.
My current specs:
Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM
Card name: AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series
So I guess my questions are:
1) Are video capture cards worth it in the short run, or should I just save and upgrade to an i7?
2) How big of a change would I realistically have upgrading with a video capture card with my current computer? Would I be able to stream at 720p 60 fps? Could I go up to 1080p with 30/60 fps?
My current specs:
Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM
Card name: AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series
So I guess my questions are:
1) Are video capture cards worth it in the short run, or should I just save and upgrade to an i7?
2) How big of a change would I realistically have upgrading with a video capture card with my current computer? Would I be able to stream at 720p 60 fps? Could I go up to 1080p with 30/60 fps?
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