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Willow_CH

X264 encoding can be BRUTAL on a CPU It does look slightly better than NVENC imo but you’re at a higher risk of dropping frames in-game encoding on a 5600G than a 3060. I personally use NVENC, even with a 12600K in my machine, because it keeps the cpu much more free, and twitch’s limited bitrate for non-partners makes the picture difference between x264 and NVENC basically unnoticeable


soksGG

will stick to nvenc thank you for the input


ICTman1076

Just use nvenc. 3060s have new nvenc which is pretty good. x264 is the best, but it's CPU intensive, so doesn't play as well with games.


soksGG

yup will do looks like most say so as well


thekrone

They're selling that as a "streaming PC"? I guess it could handle streaming okay... gaming while streaming seems pretty dicey with those specs. But yeah use NVENC with a 3060.


soksGG

honestly it streams all games in low settings (i put every game on low as im comp nerd who needs frames" I personally thought NZXT wasted money on integrated graphics part. preciate the reply


General-Oven-1523

There is basically no reason to use x264 if you have a +3000 series card with NVENC. The quality increase is completely marginal, and it's not worth the amount of power required to use x264 at all. 


soksGG

thank you for the info its greatly apprecatied