As crazy and blasphemous as it may sound to you Justin, but if you were to recommend laptops within certain price ranges (lets juts use for example 700-1000, 1000-1200, 1200-1500) with the ability to play a game and stream it at the same time (lets use the obvious, Starcraft 2, Dota2, as benchmarks), which ones would you recommend and with which laptop specific hardware.

Layback

Sweden20 Posts

February 06 2012 22:03 GMT

#47

Thanks so much for this Gunrun!

I'll look more into it when I got time!

nemix

Germany8 Posts

February 06 2012 22:06 GMT

#48

Thank you for this nice howto.

But faster DDR3 is like snail oil, it still does nothing. You can read this in every Hardwareforum...

Badboyrune

Sweden2247 Posts

February 06 2012 22:12 GMT

#49

So TheGunrun has both the ability to be at every single live event at the same time, and write lengthy, detailed guides on team liquid?

I think someone has been taking wizardry lessons from r1ch.

xsnac

Barbados1365 Posts

February 06 2012 22:12 GMT

#50

thanks gunrun !

moge

United States124 Posts

February 06 2012 22:22 GMT

#51

god bless you my friend!

Animism

Switzerland130 Posts

February 06 2012 22:24 GMT

#52

Hi, im sorry this may be the wrong place to ask, but i currently have an Intel i7 2600. I was wondering what the difference between 2600 and 2600k are? I've looked all over the place but people were saying different things. Is it just as acceptable for streaming as the 2600k?

Sporadic44

United States533 Posts

February 06 2012 22:25 GMT

#53

thank you gunrun, this is soo comprehensive. you make esports look extra sexy, one stream at a time. keep it up man =)

Ktk

Korea (South)753 Posts

February 06 2012 22:25 GMT

#54

Fantastic guide, wanted something of the sort since I use Adobe Flash media live encoder atm.

-Micro-ATX Asus Rampage II Gene
-Intel 990X (don't ask)
-PNY GTX 460SE
-6GB RAM

I set my bit rate to 950 because my school caps bandwidth at 3.5GB/2hr - was running 4000 at home, quality took a rather big hit, but whatever you gotta do if you're under bandwidth restrictions. Do the math or get called in TT.

darthcaesar

United States475 Posts

February 06 2012 22:27 GMT

#55

If my upload speed is around 400 kb/s, is there anything I can do to stream in some kind of moderately watchable quality?

ShiniSama

United States103 Posts

February 06 2012 22:31 GMT

#56

this is awesome, definitely going to be bookmarking this and using it when i get home from school tonight. Thanks gunrun!!!!

Crainey

Northern Ireland101 Posts

February 06 2012 22:39 GMT

#57

You know it's Gunrun when it starts with "So yeah", it's like his batman sign. Very thorough and insightful guide, I will definitely be bookmarking this and sharing it with others. Now that I know how to set-up my stream properly, I just need a good enough internet connection haha (you said max bitrate 500-600 below max up, that puts me at -100, hmmm...).

Roychez

Netherlands54 Posts

February 06 2012 22:40 GMT

#58

On February 07 2012 07:02 Zlasher wrote:
As crazy and blasphemous as it may sound to you Justin, but if you were to recommend laptops within certain price ranges (lets juts use for example 700-1000, 1000-1200, 1200-1500) with the ability to play a game and stream it at the same time (lets use the obvious, Starcraft 2, Dota2, as benchmarks), which ones would you recommend and with which laptop specific hardware.

I second this question. Plus, MSI GX720, is that good enough?

Tuxedo

United States134 Posts

February 06 2012 22:41 GMT

#59

Awesome guide, but I hope you do a Streaming 201! thx!

Zlasher

United States9129 Posts

February 06 2012 22:52 GMT

#60

On February 07 2012 07:40 Roychez wrote:

Show nested quote +

I second this question. Plus, MSI GX720, is that good enough?

Yeah, I have a laptop with

i5-480M
6 GB DDR3
Nvidia Geforce 540M

When the computer was fresh, I used to be able to stream SC2 on all low quality settings, 20 fps, 360/480p but nowadays xsplit logs up so much CPU that my dual-core just can't handle it. I got the laptop for 700 at the time and nowadays it is probably worth 600ish. Ideally I am hoping that there are many other college students that need the mobility of a laptop, but want the option to stream. This could mean finding a laptop with a sandy bridge or i7 quad core CPU and serviceable graphics card to do lower quality streaming (ie: the example I had of 20-25 frames per second at 360/480p HD).

Just want to try to help the poor college students out like myself haha.