Streaming I5/I7

[n0cturnal]

Will the i5 3570k take a huge hit?

It really depends on what settings you are planning to use, if you are fine with a decent quality 720p stream than a i5 will be ok, if you want to do something better than that you really want an i7. Your connection can easily handle a good quality 1080p stream.

[vesseblah]

Mediocre quality 720p works with i5 just fine, but good quality 1080p requires either i7 or a capture card.

[Deleted]

Mediocre quality 720p works with i5 just fine, but good quality 1080p requires either i7 or a capture card.

You can go higher than a mediocre quality 720P with an i5.. You're telling me a recent i5 easily OC'd @ 4.5Ghz (as we know it's very very easy to do) can handle more than a shitty 720P ? I'm gonna have to disagree with this..

[Danno]

A guidie of mine streams our raids @1080p and he has a 3570k at base settings. I would think even a 2500k overclocked would be plenty for WoW while streaming since it really only utilizes two cores.

[Toffie]

A 3570k 4.5GHz+ is more than fine for streaming 1080p in WoW, people underestimate the 3570k.

[Kukkaroinen]

Mediocre quality 720p works with i5 just fine, but good quality 1080p requires either i7 or a capture card.

I have an ancient core 2 quad 9550 running @3.84GHz and I can stream good quality 1080p@30fps just fine with a Radeon HD6850. The trick is I'm using OBS and not Xsplit. So an i5 is a monster for streaming and i7 is overkill if you just play and stream

[vesseblah]

You can go higher than a mediocre quality 720P with an i5..

I have an ancient core 2 quad 9550 running @3.84GHz and I can stream good quality 1080p@30fps just fine with a Radeon HD6850.

Not at ultra settings. I refuse to play WoW on settings so low it looks more like minecraft. 1080p with i5 is possible, but fps in 25man raids is too low to be enjoyable.

[a21fa7c67f26f6d49a20c2c51]

1080p with OBS and DXtory for frame capture at 25 or 30FPS is possible with a 3570k (or whatever) provided you have a 3-5mbit connection or better.

Also, a capture card is only snagging the frame buffer information (which is a trivial task) - the encoding for the stream service is still done on your CPU. It doesn't dramatically improve streaming performance.

Would you like a demonstration? It's not like the "disable hyperthreading" option is hard to find.

[Marxman]

I'm not going to raid, but arena. But in case of low frames, is it because of the GPU or the CPU?

If you aren't raiding 25mans, expect solid 60+ FPS most of the time. WoW performance only hits snags in 25mans, where the amount of data your CPU must process is staggering. Your GPU isn't all that important, a 560ti or similar would basically max the game out.

Doing arenas I would be shocked if you ever dipped below 60 FPS on a modern rig, even while streaming.