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I recently got my gaming computer, so I thought I would ask about it.
I have an ok Logitech microphone and surround sound speakers.
Here is the first screen text for my computers specs:
7.3 Windows Index Score Rating (based on the worst score)
Intel® Core™ i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20 GHz 3.20 GHz
RAM: 8.00 GB
64-bit Operating System
(Windows 7 if you didn't guess)
Windows Index Score:
Processor: 7.5
RAM: 7.5
Regular Graphics: 7.3
Gaming Graphics: 7.3
Primary Hard Disk: 7.9
More Info:
I have a SSD with my Windows on it, and a terabyte for all my games.
I have a 650 Nvidia GeForce Graphics card.
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Nice specs... though generally if you're recording, you want to record to a drive that doesn't have your games on it - as you'll be causing a potential chokepoint if you have it pulling gamedata from the same drive you're recording to.
Overall though, nice system... curious if the intent was to record, or if this possibly belongs more over in the hardware section
Your specs. are great! don't worry with lag, the only thing I recommend is to double-check the options of the games you will be recording, sometimes, you'll need to lower the settings. (for example, Minecraft).
Nice specs... though generally if you're recording, you want to record to a drive that doesn't have your games on it - as you'll be causing a potential chokepoint if you have it pulling gamedata from the same drive you're recording to.
Overall though, nice system... curious if the intent was to record, or if this possibly belongs more over in the hardware section
Thanks for all that advice and the compliments! I'll be sure to do that, and yeah, it does, I guess. I did mean like on a streaming or recording basis, how would it be?
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It should do fine... though I would put any game you plan on recording, on your SSD and record to your 1 TB drive. (next time I upgrade my system, I actually plan to move away from SSDs... for recording purposes having large stable drives just seems to work out better unless you're made of money)
I basically run on the AMD equivalent of your system btw...
It should do fine... though I would put any game you plan on recording, on your SSD and record to your 1 TB drive. (next time I upgrade my system, I actually plan to move away from SSDs... for recording purposes having large stable drives just seems to work out better unless you're made of money)
I basically run on the AMD equivalent of your system btw...
Oh, thats cool. The only problem is that my SSD is only 55 gigabytes, and that isn't enough for Windows and a bunch of stuff that would mess up my PC if I move it, and my videos. My idea is recording, compressing, and saving to Flash Drives. Best I can do; besides, the videos take up about a gigabyte, a bit less.
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Nah... what I'm saying is install the 2-3 games you plan to record in the near future, on to your SSD, then record the footage to your HDD - generally speaking, the raw footage for my videos has ranged between 30gig and 450 gig (that last one, was hell to edit), so for lossless recording, you're pretty much stuck with using HDDs currently (not to mention, recording -to- SSDs tends to make them burn out quicker, because you're going through so many red/writes).
As far as using flash drives... honestly, if I was really gonna use portable/external storage, I would go with an external HDD that goes through either USB 3.0 or eSATA ports... (I have one I use when my internal is full, that also serves as an alternate hdd if I want to be rendering while recording). Reason being, Flash drives will have pretty high burnout rate in this environment, just like SSDs.
While I don't know the specifics of the system I plan to build later in 2014, chances are I'll actually be running 4+ internal HDDs for this purpose ( 1 system drive, 3 record-to drives, so I can render off/on to drives 2 and 3, while recording raw footage to drive 4)
That should be able to record any game with smooth fps.
But i would get an i7 extreme processor
And a razor mic
I have that and it is awesome
Disregard this post. An i7 would not help you much, if at all. Most games can't take advantage of more than 4 cores.
Razer headphones are alright but it is generally better to get dedicated headphones like Sennheiser or something, and a separate mic such as the Blue Snowball.
Nah... what I'm saying is install the 2-3 games you plan to record in the near future, on to your SSD, then record the footage to your HDD - generally speaking, the raw footage for my videos has ranged between 30gig and 450 gig (that last one, was hell to edit), so for lossless recording, you're pretty much stuck with using HDDs currently (not to mention, recording -to- SSDs tends to make them burn out quicker, because you're going through so many red/writes).
As far as using flash drives... honestly, if I was really gonna use portable/external storage, I would go with an external HDD that goes through either USB 3.0 or eSATA ports... (I have one I use when my internal is full, that also serves as an alternate hdd if I want to be rendering while recording). Reason being, Flash drives will have pretty high burnout rate in this environment, just like SSDs.
While I don't know the specifics of the system I plan to build later in 2014, chances are I'll actually be running 4+ internal HDDs for this purpose ( 1 system drive, 3 record-to drives, so I can render off/on to drives 2 and 3, while recording raw footage to drive 4)
Ah. Yeah, I see what you mean, but 450 gigs? What the hell were you recording? Lol.
Ah. Yeah, I see what you mean, but 450 gigs? What the hell were you recording? Lol.
I used to use Fraps, and since the footage is uncompressed it can fill up really quickly. I recorded a few hours of gameplay and filled up about 1.5TB. I got a notification that my drive was almost full and was really confused until I noticed the Fraps recordings were hundreds of GBs each.
I used to use Fraps, and since the footage is uncompressed it can fill up really quickly. I recorded a few hours of gameplay and filled up about 1.5TB. I got a notification that my drive was almost full and was really confused until I noticed the Fraps recordings were hundreds of GBs each.
Oh . Glad I use Bandicam, the most a Minecraft video has taken is less than a gig; with voice, some music maybe, and some editing maybe cause it to be 1.5 gigs.
Oh . Glad I use Bandicam, the most a Minecraft video has taken is less than a gig; with voice, some music maybe, and some editing maybe cause it to be 1.5 gigs.
Yeah, I use Bandicam now too. There isn't much point going for super high quality since YouTube compresses the sh*t out of it anyway.
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Yea, I record at 720p, 30fps with as little compression as possible - mainly because I enjoy being able to control the pre-upload compression as much as possible - and 450 gigs was about 4 hours of a group series that I ended up not releasing (the other participants didnt either).
Yea, I record at 720p, 30fps with as little compression as possible - mainly because I enjoy being able to control the pre-upload compression as much as possible - and 450 gigs was about 4 hours of a group series that I ended up not releasing (the other participants didnt either).
When I do Battlefield I record in 1080p, 60FPS so I can slow it down and stuff, but for Minecraft it isn't worth going higher than 720P. My 1.5TB was a few hours of hunger games and some other things I didn't bother deleting.
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My 450 gig file wasn't minecraft... 4 hours of minecraft would run me much less than that. (longest minecraft recording I did was about 2.5-3 hours, and if memory serves, it didn't even break 300gig)
The whole point being, you want a substantial record-to drive... unless you would rather have a program handle the compression during recording (there's pros and cons to both methods... but having a history in the visual arts, I always go for the "It's easier to simplify" philosophy - basically it's easier to lower something's fidelity, than to try to repair it while scaling it up)
My 450 gig file wasn't minecraft... 4 hours of minecraft would run me much less than that. (longest minecraft recording I did was about 2.5-3 hours, and if memory serves, it didn't even break 300gig)
The whole point being, you want a substantial record-to drive... unless you would rather have a program handle the compression during recording (there's pros and cons to both methods... but having a history in the visual arts, I always go for the "It's easier to simplify" philosophy - basically it's easier to lower something's fidelity, than to try to repair it while scaling it up)
I went with the compression during recording method. Bandicam seems to take advantage of my i7 pretty well so there's pretty much no slow down while recording. I run games off my SSD and record to the HDD most of the time, though I sometimes switch it up if I need to do something specific.
EDIT: Out of curiosity, what is your setup like Alzorath?
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My current setup is my 'economy rig' setup, here's a list of everything I used on my channel -
Early Recordings (Dead Rig):
Windows XP
AMD Athlon64 X2 4600+
nVidia 5800 GT 512 MB
2 GIG RAM
512 GIG HDD (Velociraptor)
Current Recordings (Economy Rig):
Windows 7 64-bit
AMD FX-8120
8 GIG RAM
nVidia GT640 4gig (Would've gone with GT610 OEM version, but I was unable to get ahold of it - faster processing, less memory)
128 GIG SSD (Games and FRAPs Installed here)
1 TB Internal HDD (Record-to Drive)
Peripherals (not always used)
1 TB External USB 3.0 HDD (Backup Record-to Drive/Storage Drive)
500 GB External USB 3.0 HDD (Storage Drive)
19" HP Monitor (x1)
Blue Snowball (on Boom Stand + Pop Filter)
Sony Studio Headphones (No Bass Boost, Noise Isolating)
XBox360 Controller
Wacom Intuos3 (needs to be replaced lol...but they're so expensive)
Software:
FRAPs
OBS
Audacity
Soundforge
Vegas Movie Studio
FL Studio (Demo version)
Unity
Blender
Photoshop
Corel Painter
Windows Media Player (I use it as part of my syncing process)
and of course: the games.
Planned Upgrades:
Software: +DxTory, +FL Studio, +VAC
Hardware: +22" HP Monitor (x2)
PC: TBD (planning on going with a 3+ HDD setup, main drive Velociraptor, Record-to and internal storage 7200RPMs, and utilize a sound-dampening case - which does mean I have to cut back a bit for heat concerns, but the audio quality is worth it for me - may restrict me to a single video card, though I have considered multiple if I can do the proper cooling for it)
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Yea... the GT640 in general isn't a 'great' card by any means, it's just what was available at the time and cheap lol... the OEM variant of the 610, would've actually worked better (and they had some when I was first shoping, but ran out )
I have an ok Logitech microphone and surround sound speakers.
Here is the first screen text for my computers specs:
7.3 Windows Index Score Rating (based on the worst score)
Intel® Core™ i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20 GHz 3.20 GHz
RAM: 8.00 GB
64-bit Operating System
(Windows 7 if you didn't guess)
Windows Index Score:
Processor: 7.5
RAM: 7.5
Regular Graphics: 7.3
Gaming Graphics: 7.3
Primary Hard Disk: 7.9
More Info:
I have a SSD with my Windows on it, and a terabyte for all my games.
I have a 650 Nvidia GeForce Graphics card.
So, what do you figure?
Overall though, nice system... curious if the intent was to record, or if this possibly belongs more over in the hardware section
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Thanks, and thanks for the advice! I'll see about it, especially the i7 processor.
Thanks for the compliment, and the advice!
Thanks for all that advice and the compliments! I'll be sure to do that, and yeah, it does, I guess. I did mean like on a streaming or recording basis, how would it be?
I basically run on the AMD equivalent of your system btw...
Oh, thats cool. The only problem is that my SSD is only 55 gigabytes, and that isn't enough for Windows and a bunch of stuff that would mess up my PC if I move it, and my videos. My idea is recording, compressing, and saving to Flash Drives. Best I can do; besides, the videos take up about a gigabyte, a bit less.
As far as using flash drives... honestly, if I was really gonna use portable/external storage, I would go with an external HDD that goes through either USB 3.0 or eSATA ports... (I have one I use when my internal is full, that also serves as an alternate hdd if I want to be rendering while recording). Reason being, Flash drives will have pretty high burnout rate in this environment, just like SSDs.
While I don't know the specifics of the system I plan to build later in 2014, chances are I'll actually be running 4+ internal HDDs for this purpose ( 1 system drive, 3 record-to drives, so I can render off/on to drives 2 and 3, while recording raw footage to drive 4)
Disregard this post. An i7 would not help you much, if at all. Most games can't take advantage of more than 4 cores.
Razer headphones are alright but it is generally better to get dedicated headphones like Sennheiser or something, and a separate mic such as the Blue Snowball.
Ah. Yeah, I see what you mean, but 450 gigs? What the hell were you recording? Lol.
I used to use Fraps, and since the footage is uncompressed it can fill up really quickly. I recorded a few hours of gameplay and filled up about 1.5TB. I got a notification that my drive was almost full and was really confused until I noticed the Fraps recordings were hundreds of GBs each.
Oh . Glad I use Bandicam, the most a Minecraft video has taken is less than a gig; with voice, some music maybe, and some editing maybe cause it to be 1.5 gigs.
Yeah, I use Bandicam now too. There isn't much point going for super high quality since YouTube compresses the sh*t out of it anyway.
When I do Battlefield I record in 1080p, 60FPS so I can slow it down and stuff, but for Minecraft it isn't worth going higher than 720P. My 1.5TB was a few hours of hunger games and some other things I didn't bother deleting.
The whole point being, you want a substantial record-to drive... unless you would rather have a program handle the compression during recording (there's pros and cons to both methods... but having a history in the visual arts, I always go for the "It's easier to simplify" philosophy - basically it's easier to lower something's fidelity, than to try to repair it while scaling it up)
I went with the compression during recording method. Bandicam seems to take advantage of my i7 pretty well so there's pretty much no slow down while recording. I run games off my SSD and record to the HDD most of the time, though I sometimes switch it up if I need to do something specific.
EDIT: Out of curiosity, what is your setup like Alzorath?
Early Recordings (Dead Rig):
Windows XP
AMD Athlon64 X2 4600+
nVidia 5800 GT 512 MB
2 GIG RAM
512 GIG HDD (Velociraptor)
Current Recordings (Economy Rig):
Windows 7 64-bit
AMD FX-8120
8 GIG RAM
nVidia GT640 4gig (Would've gone with GT610 OEM version, but I was unable to get ahold of it - faster processing, less memory)
128 GIG SSD (Games and FRAPs Installed here)
1 TB Internal HDD (Record-to Drive)
Peripherals (not always used)
1 TB External USB 3.0 HDD (Backup Record-to Drive/Storage Drive)
500 GB External USB 3.0 HDD (Storage Drive)
19" HP Monitor (x1)
Blue Snowball (on Boom Stand + Pop Filter)
Sony Studio Headphones (No Bass Boost, Noise Isolating)
XBox360 Controller
Wacom Intuos3 (needs to be replaced lol...but they're so expensive)
Software:
FRAPs
OBS
Audacity
Soundforge
Vegas Movie Studio
FL Studio (Demo version)
Unity
Blender
Photoshop
Corel Painter
Windows Media Player (I use it as part of my syncing process)
and of course: the games.
Planned Upgrades:
Software: +DxTory, +FL Studio, +VAC
Hardware: +22" HP Monitor (x2)
PC: TBD (planning on going with a 3+ HDD setup, main drive Velociraptor, Record-to and internal storage 7200RPMs, and utilize a sound-dampening case - which does mean I have to cut back a bit for heat concerns, but the audio quality is worth it for me - may restrict me to a single video card, though I have considered multiple if I can do the proper cooling for it)