Building a new PC, want to be able to play Dolphin and stream at 3500-5000kbp/s

[KHg8m3r]

Your build is needlessly overpriced. Dolphin only looks at single core speeds on two cores (3 if using LLE on separate thread), and the i7-4790K can be overclocked to 4.7 GHz, which is around the same level as the i7 extreme processors. All those extra cores aren't going to be used by Dolphin, and unless you have really shitty streaming software, it'll run fine on the 4790K

[TehGuy]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant


CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor  ($499.99 @ Micro Center) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U14S 55.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($69.29 @ NCIX US) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X99-UD3 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($187.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Kingston 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4-2666 Memory  ($161.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Samsung 850 Pro Series 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($140.49 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital WD Black 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($244.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GB Twin Frozr Video Card (2-Way SLI)  ($549.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GB Twin Frozr Video Card (2-Way SLI)  ($549.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($99.99 @ NCIX US) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 P2 1000W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($179.99 @ NCIX US) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit)  ($87.95 @ OutletPC) 
Keyboard: Razer BlackWidow Wired Gaming Keyboard 
Total: $2772.64
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-29 19:21 EDT-0400


Frankly, I think this'd do you better for much less while still being overkill.. From the benchmarks I've seen, SLI 980s can fight with Crossfire 290Xs but cost less and will eat less power/spit less heat into the case. That and, with OBS at least, the NVENC codec will help in offloading the encoding to the GPUs and keep off the CPU (though that definitely shouldn't matter on a 5930k). If you wanna save more, swap these to SLI 970s

You're definitely not going to need 64 GB of RAM unless you really want obscene amounts of RAMDisks or something (or hundreds of chrome tabs). That, and the kit didn't have a price on it so I don't really know how much it shaves off the total cost

Swapping to SLI 970s brings the power usage way down, but still gave you a top-tiered 1000W 80+ Plat PSU for less than the one you've chosen if you want to throw more in there

The Gigabyte board is tiered higher and should do you better (link has it tiered as one of THE BEST)

Storage options are more personal preference.. I just don't see a use in spending so much on a 1 TB SSD right now and find it better to just get a small one for OS + important programs and large amounts of HDD space for everything else. Furthermore, I'm having doubts as to whether or not the HDD you chose was really even made for what you want to do with it (seems more like something you'd make backups to, as the name suggests, rather than gaming from it)

All in all, this should save you quite a bit and do just as well if not a good bit better

If you want quicker improvements, a NVIDIA GPU + NVENC encoding settings (if your streamer supports it) should give passable results (it runs well enough [read: full speed] on my 2600k + 970 + OBS x64) while the rest of the build comes in (unless you buy it all at once)

Though a saner build with room for another GPU would be more similar to

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant


CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($279.99 @ Micro Center) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U14S 55.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($69.29 @ NCIX US) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-GAMING 7 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($152.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($129.98 @ NCIX US) 
Storage: Samsung 850 Pro Series 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($140.49 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital WD Black 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($244.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GB Twin Frozr Video Card  ($549.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($99.99 @ NCIX US) 
Power Supply: XFX XTR 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($82.99 @ NCIX US) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit)  ($87.95 @ OutletPC) 
Keyboard: Razer BlackWidow Wired Gaming Keyboard 
Total: $1838.65
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-29 19:28 EDT-0400

You can sub out the GTX 980 for your GPU of choice in both builds if you want as the CPU should be enough on the x264 encoder

[Anti-Ultimate]

In this thread: Rich people talk

Just go with what you can afford. There's no reason to go for anything else than the i5 5820k in my opinion, but that's up to you...

[NKF98]

(03-30-2015, 08:50 PM)Anti-Ultimate Wrote: ITT: Rich people talk

I lol'd