Gaming PC Suggestions

I’d add

If your doing youtube, you’ll want to make sure whatever video software you use to edit and render the yt video supports the gpu you purchase. A 10min YouTube video can take a few hours to tender on a cpu, 20mins on a gpu.

For example an hours worth of game capture will be 30gb plus in size, at just 1080p at a decent bit rate. If your going for larger than the 1080, your gonna need some real hardware.

You don’t need the best gpu for rendering, so pick the one that is needed for your games, the double check it works with the video software. Then either change the software or the gpu, which ever cheaper.

You’ll save a fortune on eleccy.

Christ decent pc’s have gotten cheap. When I built mine they came out at about that. 10 years ago!!

And at that time, I was saving about 400£ by building. I doubt you could match the rrp today.

If he wants to make YT videos of the games he plays then it has to be powerful enough to handle both simultaneously – the game and the video creating software. My PC has no problems with games but it struggles if I try to make a video.

@tadka if you install a second drive (ssd) to use a  ‘scratch disk’ it will help alot.

My lad does Yt vids, I spit his games on to a 240gb ssd, the operating system to a 120gb ssd (iirc) and a chucked on my ancient 30gb ssd to use to record to.

His system is old i5 750, with a gtx970, once the ‘scratch dust went in it really upped the quality he could capture. Though iirc he still captures at 720p but at a higher bit rate.

I can’t really the capture software we decided on, it’s japanese, some don’t like it but it worked best for us. He uses Sony vagus to edit. As his school gives out licences, and teaches that. No way I’d by it when Blender is free.

Dxtory is the recording sw he uses. Iirc it cost 25£ ish, it had to be purchased in ¥ at the time. Which was about 5 years ago.

My lad renders on a second pc with a gtx 460 in it as 1. The 970 wasn’t supported, (probably is now) 2. His pc could not handle gaming, capture AND rendering. 3 dad is to tight to buy him a new pc. Though I think next year I’ll update his rig. It’s worked hard for a long long though like the i7920 I use to game, it just keeps working and well. I’ve been saying for 5 plus years, it’s probably going this year.

CPU intensive games like city builders (my type of game) does start to slow once pops get so big. Other than that I don’t have many games that suffer. Both project racing and gta 5 still run 1080p at over 60fps. Which I’m more than happy with.

If your struggling, try a third old ssd to record onto.