Building a new computer

[Shodokan]

3.5 years later now with my own monies!

Anyway...

I'm looking to build a computer for under 1800 that has the capabilities to stream without stressing the computer out while 5 boxing so theres no performance issues. Currently everything just sorta gets choppy in game while streaming and the quality can't really be all that good due to most of my ram being used by WoW.

I'd like a computer i won't really need to upgrade for at least 4 years to run everything optimally. Maybe eventually 10 box or something silly with decent FPS.

Thinking something along the lines of...

I7 ivy bridge
32 gigs of ram
3 gig graphics card (maybe keep my current 1 gig as well in sli/cross-fire?)
700 watt power supply
Lots of fans since I don't really have the capital to do real liquid cooling
250 gig SSD for wow + windows + some video recording

Any other suggestions would be wonderful.

[Unded]

You probably need larger ps-700 watt seems kind of small. Are you re-using a cd/dvd drive? Make sure your vid card of choice has a large enough power supply to feed it-most cards have a minimum required depending on other things in your system of course.

[Shodokan]

You probably need larger ps-700 watt seems kind of small. Are you re-using a cd/dvd drive? Make sure your vid card of choice has a large enough power supply to feed it-most cards have a minimum required depending on other things in your system of course.

It said 500 for the card i was looking at, and i will be re-using my CD drive.

[remanz]

If no monitor upgrade, 1800 is more than enough. Above is right, 700 PSU is too low. Need at least 850 nowadays, IMO. And clean, stable power is very much worth it. So get those 850 Gold PSU. Cheap ones tend to have problems later on and it is not very obvious for you to diagnose (it leads me to think my MOBO or Graphic cards are dying when it constantly tries to reboot).

If you don't buy crazy input devices (200 dollar keyboard, 150 mouse, etc). $1200 is enough to build it.

I do think not need to upgrade in 4 years is a bit of stretch though. You gotta at least upgrade graphic cards in 4 years to keep up.

[Meathead]

Most of your power consumption is all up to your GPU and how many HDDS you got, You can run a decent card and all that on 700 And for your SSD I would not place games on it, maybe get another black hdd drive for games or get 2 and raid them I use my ssd for my OS and thats it,

[Meathead]

Good choice in memory is also a plus dont go buy the slow stuff just so you can have 32gig of ram pay more for less but alot faster for instance if you get the 1600mhz ram vs the 2200mhz, they are a massive drop. CD Drive wtf is a cd drive :P Everything is digital or USB install :P And with streaming it is also up to how fast your HDD or SSD is and CPU of course you should overclock your cpu abit more or go buy a stream box uses jack crap of your cpu and direct input from your gcard too it

[Shodokan]

I have my expensive keyboard and mouse and such.

Stream box?

[Meathead]

The Avermedia Live Gamer HD captures 1080P HD gameplay with extremely low CPU consumption and comes with a multitude of features

Its dam awsum thing well worth the money

[Shodokan]

The Avermedia Live Gamer HD captures 1080P HD gameplay with extremely low CPU consumption and comes with a multitude of features

Its dam awsum thing well worth the money

I'm just going to be streaming with like x-split. How would having a capture card help?

Also the card you listed doesn't work with x-split as far as lessening the burden on your CPU due to encoding. (hardware encoder not yet supported)

Unless you are telling me to use a secondary PC which honestly I don't know if thats a feasible option for me right now... and if it was I'm not sure how i'd go about using my stream to capture specific areas of the screen on another computer (unless x-split would work the exact same way and i could just use it like normal as if the capture device area would be my actual desktop)

If i left my current PC as is and basically got a second one completely (not sharing any parts) I'm not sure how i'd maintain my room temp with two pcs going or the cost of electricity.

[Meathead]

for the card here is in detail post about and how to use it with xsplit I have seen alot of streamers have it working with xsplit but I say it takes abit more then most streaming

http://www.xsplit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14488