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so you're a seasoned pc gamer wondering how to make your gaming experience more

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social but without inviting people into

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your house then you get the utterly unique and

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one-of-a-kind idea to start streaming your gameplay you spring into action

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preparing to show your battle station off to the world but what kind of setup

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do you need to pull this off well hey guys

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it shouldn't be surprising but an upper range gaming pc is often a good choice

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for streaming but there are hardware considerations for streaming that are a

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little bit different typically gaming setups are built around

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the GPU with your graphics card often being the deciding factor in how nice

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your games will look as long as the rest of your rig meets some kind of minimum

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threshold but for streaming your CPU can

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determine how your gameplay looks to your viewers be they on twitch or

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another streaming platform but why is this

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i mean we're still talking about how to get the best graphical quality right

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well remember that the work of rendering the game that is the act of actually

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creating the image has already been done by your graphics card it's then your CPU

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that takes that rendered image and transcodes it into a video format that

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can be easily sent over the internet and displayed by your viewers web browsers

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and if you've ever edited video regularly you'll probably already know

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that having a more powerful CPU typically makes video encoding a much

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easier job now since transcoding is easily split

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amongst multiple CPU cores oh by the way

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don't forget you still have to run the game too it is to your advantage to get

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a CPU with more cores and more threads

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especially if you want to stream at 1080p 60fps instead of 720p

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though it should be noted that as with anything there is a point of diminishing

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returns and an 18 core processor might not be worth the extra price if you want

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a specific recommendation a modern 6 core core i7 or more or AMD ryzen 7

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processor or better in your gaming rig should make it a very capable streaming

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machine some streamers though actually decide to go a step further and use a

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second pc to handle all the streaming tasks using their first rig strictly for

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actual gaming this can especially make sense if you

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already have an older tower lying around because it's a great way to stream

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CPU-intensive games like starcraft or

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total war without being concerned that your gameplay or your stream quality

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will suffer as a result and one of the reasons this approach is so popular is

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that your streaming pc doesn't have to be anything super fancy you might not

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even need a dedicated graphics card you will need a good CPU

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but because it's going to be handling streaming only you can probably get away

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with a more basic four core four thread processor just make sure that you close

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all your background programs and have only what you need to stream up and

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running if you're running into trouble the other thing you'll need for your

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dedicated streaming pc is a way to capture the video output from your

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gaming machine and deliver it to the software that will encode and transmit

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your stream along with any overlays and transitions that you desire

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for pc gamers this can actually be done over your local network using the nvenc

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hardware encoding engine behind NVIDIA's shadow play feature to send up to a 60

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megabit stream of the game over Ethernet to your secondary box where CPU encoding

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will turn it into a high quality 5.5 megabit stream compatible with twitch tv

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but if your pc hardware doesn't support

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this method or if you're streaming from another device like a game console

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the go to is a capture card a modern usb

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3 or pci express capture card will help prevent transmission problems and lag

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compared to a usb 2 capture card but other than that you'll probably have to

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read or watch reviews to determine exactly which model is best for your

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needs whatever you get though make sure that it supports the resolution and

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frame rate that you want to broadcast

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