Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, I’m planning to get a new desktop PC fairly soon, and I want to get one that is capable of streaming. I barely know anything about all of the requirements that I’ll need, though, so I was wondering if anyone knows anything about what I should look for.

Any help at all would be much appreciated!

Well first of all it’s nice to have an i7 because of hyperthreading, but to be honest the biggest factor in stream quality is your internet connection. You can get by perfectly fine with an i5 and won’t notice any difference in quality between the two at all. The real significance of the processor would be for offline recording more so than streaming.

Having enough RAM however is something to consider, as it is pretty demanding to stream. You should be fine with around 8 GB RAM, no more should be needed.

As for internet speed I have 50/5 and can stream from wireless with no issues most of the time, and I stream with a max bitrate of about 2000 kb/sec. You will want to make sure you don’t stream with too high of settings because you are limited to what your ISP provides you. Upload speed matters a lot for streaming, so take that into consideration. If you have any less of an upload speed than I do, you probably won’t be able to stream with too decent of quality settings because mine is kinda pushing it and a bit on the lower end of the spectrum (that’d be American ISPs for ya).

Purple Miku.7032:

Well first of all it’s nice to have an i7 because of hyperthreading, but to be honest the biggest factor in stream quality is your internet connection. You can get by perfectly fine with an i5 and won’t notice any difference in quality between the two at all. The real significance of the processor would be for offline recording more so than streaming.

Having enough RAM however is something to consider, as it is pretty demanding to stream. You should be fine with around 8 GB RAM, no more should be needed.

As for internet speed I have 50/5 and can stream from wireless with no issues most of the time, and I stream with a max bitrate of about 2000 kb/sec. You will want to make sure you don’t stream with too high of settings because you are limited to what your ISP provides you. Upload speed matters a lot for streaming, so take that into consideration. If you have any less of an upload speed than I do, you probably won’t be able to stream with too decent of quality settings because mine is kinda pushing it and a bit on the lower end of the spectrum (that’d be American ISPs for ya).

Hmm gotcha, so basically I just need a decent processor, enough ram, and good internet connection? (I mean other than self-explanatory stuff like a mic, a camera, etc.)