I need some advice! I'm looking to upgrade my system, as you already read, I need a great cpu for streaming, now i understand that the i5-6600k outperforms the fx-9590 in games and single core performance, but with the streaming element, would it be advantageous to have the extra 4 cores for rendering in x264. If it helps i also have a lot of stuff that requires a little of the cpu, my 7.1 audio is encoded with the cpu since its usb. same with my mic. not sure if that matters, but also my CEVO client runs when i stream which keeps using an average of 12% cpu.
My current platform is amd, so it would be cheaper not having to purchase new ram and a new water cooler. but would the DDR4 bandwidth make up for for the lack of cores in terms of encoding and scene switching in OBS? thanks a million guys! p.s. i fried my Mobo, that's kinda why I'm considering an Intel switch up.
The extra cors would be benificals in multi tasking like streaming and I dont thing the ram would make a huge diffrence but on the other hand you could go with the i5 and have the upgradabliity options to go to an i7
What do you already have? No one should be buying the 9xxx series chips, you need a 200 dollar motherboard just to run it properly, I think the only reason anyone would ever need one is for rapid winrar compression/extraction
I think it could be the cpu too, it boots but only runs for about 1 hour before blue screens, says physical memory error, replaced the ram but still has the error, i suppose it could the memory controller on the cpu. but either way i'll probably just get a new mobo anyways
First, that Xeon does not include hyperthreading. That is the locked I5 version of a Xeon, so its 4 threads and 4 cores. E3 Xeon's that have the nomenclature of 1230 or greater are the ones that include hyperthreading like an I7.
Second, Skylake Xeon's are not like the previous generations where they can run on consumer chipsets to my knowledge. So a 1225 v5 will not run in a z170 board, but a 1225 v2 would run in a Z87 board.
For streaming and gaming, my recommendation would be to get the 6600k and use QuickSync in OBS as you said you use that program. That way, you get the better gaming performance of the 6600k and equivalent, flawless, streaming performance.
