Hi guys,
I'm looking to make some changes to my PC setup for better performance when streaming my races (I'm a sim racer, mostly iracing). I was wondering what you guys think makes the best sense for me out the options below.
My current system has a 4790K OCd to 4.6GHz and a GTX 980 Ti with a modest overclock (like 1425MHz or something like that). I currently run triple 1920x1200 monitors (6120x1200 bezel corrected resolution), a fourth 720P monitor for telemetry/OBS, and a 7inch USB monitor for my dashboard.
I can maintain over 60fps when racing, but when I start streaming it harder and sometimes it'll stay in the 40s and have a lot of stuttering depending on the track and number of cars. I'm using QuickSync to encode. I would like to get a GTX 1080Ti to be able to eventually power triple 1080P 144Hz GSync monitors, but I can't afford that at the moment. If I'm able to offload my 980Ti and some other parts I have laying around, maybe I'll be able to buy the 1080Ti. I'm also hoping for price drops with the launch of RX Vega.
In doing some youtube research, I saw that OBS just released a new plugin that allows a second PC on the same network to do the encoding and stream to twitch to free-up resources on your gaming PC.
Does it make any sense to buy once of the prebuilt Dell PCs (something like this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Optipl...402462&hash=item2f0964f725:g:siYAAOSwQwBZkdAv) for about $200 to be a dedicated stream PC, or should I wait and keep trying to save up for GTX 1080Ti?
Personally, I'm not too fund of having too systems to power and keep track off, but I'm open to the idea. I'm not interested in a GTX 1080 or RX Vega 64 because I want the strongest card for the triple 144Hz monitors later like I mentioned and I don't want buyers remorse if I run into performance issues with those.
Thanks for your replies.
I'm looking to make some changes to my PC setup for better performance when streaming my races (I'm a sim racer, mostly iracing). I was wondering what you guys think makes the best sense for me out the options below.
My current system has a 4790K OCd to 4.6GHz and a GTX 980 Ti with a modest overclock (like 1425MHz or something like that). I currently run triple 1920x1200 monitors (6120x1200 bezel corrected resolution), a fourth 720P monitor for telemetry/OBS, and a 7inch USB monitor for my dashboard.
I can maintain over 60fps when racing, but when I start streaming it harder and sometimes it'll stay in the 40s and have a lot of stuttering depending on the track and number of cars. I'm using QuickSync to encode. I would like to get a GTX 1080Ti to be able to eventually power triple 1080P 144Hz GSync monitors, but I can't afford that at the moment. If I'm able to offload my 980Ti and some other parts I have laying around, maybe I'll be able to buy the 1080Ti. I'm also hoping for price drops with the launch of RX Vega.
In doing some youtube research, I saw that OBS just released a new plugin that allows a second PC on the same network to do the encoding and stream to twitch to free-up resources on your gaming PC.
Does it make any sense to buy once of the prebuilt Dell PCs (something like this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Optipl...402462&hash=item2f0964f725:g:siYAAOSwQwBZkdAv) for about $200 to be a dedicated stream PC, or should I wait and keep trying to save up for GTX 1080Ti?
Personally, I'm not too fund of having too systems to power and keep track off, but I'm open to the idea. I'm not interested in a GTX 1080 or RX Vega 64 because I want the strongest card for the triple 144Hz monitors later like I mentioned and I don't want buyers remorse if I run into performance issues with those.
Thanks for your replies.
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