Strictly Streaming; 8350 or Spare Intel Rig

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So I'm very satisfied with my FX 6300 but feel that when an 8350 goes on sale, I'm for sure picking up one. Now with that said, I want to know if that CPU would be fine for 1080p streaming, or if I should invest in a 3770k or equiv. Haswell i5/i7 strictly streaming rig that CAN also edit and render footage in CS6 if need be.

I would be on a budget and don't want to spend more than 700 if I go a secondary PC route. My backup rig has a Phenom X3 8650 and Radeon 6870 with 6GB of DDR2

 Thanks guys

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For pure streaming and rendering a FX8350 is realy a decent choice.

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Intel does have quicksync but a very popular Tek Syndicate streamer has a dual core Pentium and he tells me that it works perfectly especially if you watch his stream.

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I second the 8350. Push a Good Overclock on it maybe around 4.6 to 4.8ghz your streaming performance will be impeccable.

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You might also want to try the Fx 9370 or Xeon E3 1230 V3

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GPU Encoding > *

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9370 is just a binned/overclocked 8350/8320 though. it does not warrant the $50+ increase over the 8350

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with the upcoming 8370, i bet the 8350 gets dropped by maybe $20 to $150ish (ugh.... AMD..... get your shit together..... they keep releasing 8320/8350 bin/overclock CPUs... they already have the 9370/9590, now they are getting an 8370 which is an 8350 with a 100Mhz overclock.)

assuming your motherboard is compatible, i would just go with that, rather then a whole new board and a whole new cpu.

also, i think the 8320 will be dropping to $130-140 at the same time. that is always viable, then overclock.

plus, the 6300 is still a good chip. had my cousin get one earlier this year. you could sell/give it to a friend/family member. or sell it on ebay or something. 

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Intel's hd series has quick sync, nvidia gpus have shadowplay, and amd gpus have VCE. you can use those to stream instead of the cpu, it has less of a hit on frame rate. The quality will be slightly worse than if you were using the cpu though.

 

If you live near a microcenter the 8320 is $160 there, dunno about other places

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I live in Canada, so no Microcenter

 

My current mobo is a ASUS M5A99X Evo 2.0, so I'm pretty sure that 8370 would be fine.

I might just pick up two more sticks of ram and use the 6300 in my backup rig and just get an external HDMI capture card.

Thanks guys!