$1000 USD PC setup

[devout sage]

Soooo, I'm new to PC building, and I'm want to be a streamer and a gamer which is about $1000 USD with stable FPS, which one do you pick?

[pearl imp]

What games do you want to play? do you have peripherals? monitor/keyboard/mouse, and do you know what your target framerate is?

[devout sage]

Sorry for replaying a week later since I thought this post would be ignored. Anyways, I have a fifine microphone and a Intel Core i7 which an Nvidia RTX 4060 pc. I'm planning to be a Geometry Dash streamer and recorder

[devout sage]

Also I aim at 60 fps (which I have already) however I'm aiming to stream at 1080p full quality.

[pallid raven]

What you already own should be capable enough already

[rocky owl]

Which i7

[devout sage]

i7-14700F

[swift pecan]

u can run geometry dash on a i3 and a gt 710, i think the i7 and a 4060 will be fine

[devout sage]

Hmm sure, but the desktop I got was straight from Costco and not built, is that fine?

[rocky owl]

Your pc should be capable of streaming geometry dash

How much ram does it have?

[devout sage]

THIRTY-TWO ram

[rocky owl]

Yeah that is totally fine

[devout sage]

Is streaming in Twitch or Youtube better

[rocky owl]

Idk to much about it, but probably Twitch

[swift pecan]

if ur just starting out then i'd say twitch

[devout sage]

Sure but what should be the settings to not get hit by compression

[swift pecan]

no idea

[devout sage]

I uploaded videos but the quality isn’t very good due to the compression YouTube offers

I tried getting help but wouldn’t budge

[pallid raven]

You're always going to have compression

[pearl imp]

So you already have a computer with i7 and RTX 4060 but looking to upgrade? that's a very different question than building from scratch. I would upgrade what you already have because you are not getting much more performance than that for 1000.

[swift pecan]

if u really want an upgrade maybe look at something like a 7900xtx, don't know how much it costs where u are but it's proably the best fore the money

[pearl imp]

I agree with this 👆

Or just don't upgrade at all? you want to stream geometry dash at 1080p? what? you can do that on your current PC no problem ... Upgrading will not help you.

You can almost do that fine on a 10 year old laptop with integrated graphics.

I say almost because such a computer might not even support modern OBS

[swift pecan]

yeah, tbh just save the $1000

[pearl imp]

Ah I see your problem 👀
This is not related to your computer.

You can DM me if you want help with this. I have a lot of experience with video compression / YouTube.

The jist of it is that YouTube's bitrate for 1080p is pretty low, so you need to make sure you upload it with the correct video codec and bitrate to begin with to get the best chances ...

Or even upscale to 4k before uploading, because YouTube bitrate for 1080p content is never great ...

And for livestream you want to have as high of a bitrate as the platform allows, And use NVENC encoder for best quality.

[devout sage]

But I've seen 1080p videos record and looks good still

I'm just probably doin something wrong

[final lance]

nah bro you must get an good gpu for the nvenc encoder

[pearl imp]

But 4060 has NCENC, no? ...

Also, you can get great quality with any encoder. The benefit Nvidia has is good quality with low GPU usage & low bitrate... But you can match the quality even on AMD by cranking up quality settings and let your computer sweat a little.

[final lance]

he would run games in ultra 1080p

without optimizations

and if he stream + record in h265 he must have a good gpu

[pearl imp]

He’s recording and streaming geometry dash… it’s a 2D game. I don’t see upgrading gpu being relevant.

I am well aware recording and streaming requires more from your hardware, but his settings are whack if quality is bad 🙃

Another part of the equation is Twitch, they give lower quality to new streamers than their partners

[final lance]

"play only geometry dash for 10years"

[pearl imp]

That’s not what I’m saying 😂 OP is asking for help because they are having quality issues. Upgrading GPU will not help. I am trying to help now, not future problems

[final lance]

he build for first time

[pearl imp]

No. Read the rest of the thread.

[final lance]

im too lazy to do this sorry

[pearl imp]

No worries :) but TLDR he already has a PC with RTX 4060 and has had quality issues with recordings / stream and wonders what to upgrade / how to build a better pc.

[exotic olive]

Tbf there's stuff where there's a lot of objects

I'm guessing most gd levels use cpu more than gpu

[pearl imp]

That taxes CPU not GPU

[exotic olive]

But I heard that a good GPU helps

[exotic olive]

Jus said that

[pearl imp]

Yeah sorry I wrote it at the same time :D

[exotic olive]

We good 👍

Anyways

Yeah it's mostly gonna be CPU based

But I saw a post saying that upgrading from a GTX 970 to a 3060 helped their performance

[pearl imp]

Also 60fps target is nothing for GD

[exotic olive]

Yeah no you wanna go for 240 to 360

Preferably on levels like white space

Or just anything that has a crazy object count

[pearl imp]

OP might mean they play on 360 but stream at 60, but that was not specified 🤷‍♂️ in that case GPU upgrade might be of interest. Also depends on resolution

[exotic olive]

In the end the cpu matters more than the gpu

[exotic olive]

Oh my god I forgot about the streaming

4060 shouldn't be too bad tho

Assuming their on 1080p

[pearl imp]

Yeah... Too many variables to give a good recommendation tbh :D I just need to understand their issue fully, and what they want to achieve

[exotic olive]

@devout sage you need a 9950x3d when it comes out and an rtx 5090, sorry for being the one to tell you

Maybe then you can finally run retray 👍

[pearl imp]

I actually recommend getting two computers with these specs. One just for streaming. and elgato capture card... 5090 is not enough to run the game and deliver the stream :/

Target FPS is 1000 at 16k res btw

[exotic olive]

Actually

9950x3d is mod

Mid

Lemme make you a PCpartpicker list

[final lance]

can 5090 run fortnite in medium with good fps ?

the worst game (in optimization)

[pearl imp]

Make sure to use threadripper… the dude wants to stream!

[exotic olive]

7995WX THREADRIPPER PRO for $10000
ASUS PRO WS WRX90E-SAGE SE CEB WORKSTATION $1300
2 TB Nemix DDR5 5600MHz for $25000

As much storage as you can fit

Make sure the nvme drives are gen 5

And the satas and hard drives are b I g

[final lance]

not even 6000mhz !

and it's not enough to run google chrome

2TB haha

[exotic olive]

Get one of them 6000 dollar cases

Double 5090 that bitch

[devout sage]

Yes

[exotic olive]

I wonder if you can fit 3 if you only use FE

[devout sage]

But all I need is to record in 1080p with good quality without YoTube killing it

Sugarkitty said he know everything about YouTube compression so he can help me

[devout sage]

I kinda doubt my PC specs determine how I can record

[pearl imp]

Sugar was a cute nickname. I'd be happy to help though if you send your render / OBS settings, and show me a visual example of the current quality and what you try to achieve.

[devout sage]

Lmao, I misread your nickname but I like it still

[devout sage]

I had school n' stuff which is why it was almost a week for you to help me.

[devout sage]

I'm ready Sugarkitty

Do not disturb 😐

[devout sage]

Ready when you are @pearl imp

[pearl imp]

I was sleeping bro XD have some patience