Gaming Setup

[imarcusl]

Hi All,

I am looking to start streaming and making youtube videos but only currently have a laptop and elgato hd I have £1500 to spend could you give me recommendations. The videos will be on Black ops 3 and I use an xbox one.

 

This is the first time I've ever recommend this, but you could always go with a refurbished macbook pro + monitor + keyboard.

Its right in your price range. Comes with fast storage, beefy processor, plenty of ram, nice screen, good battery life.

Yeah, you could get more for your money building a desktop. But if your primary use is web browsing, watching movies, writing papers, editing videos, streaming, that kind of thing it'd be perfect. If you want to game ON the laptop, there are better options obviously.

The PC master race in me hates this suggestion, but honestly it'd probably suit you well.

 

[imarcusl]

whats your thoughts on a Acer VN7 intel core I7 Processor, 8Gb RAM, 1Tb HDD + 60Gb SSD Storage, 15.6 Inch Laptop NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4Gb Dedicated Graphics. would this be good enough to stream and edit on?

 

[SocioDNa41]

That would be enough if you are not extreme gamer who can notice difference between few fps delay in gameplay.

 

[imarcusl]

If I am making youtube videos and streaming with this would people notice? and would look bad?

 

[imarcusl]

any other ideas would prefer a laptop or pc never used a mac before so would prefer not to use that.

 

[ridooz]

I am a laptop user myself currently, planning to buy a PC which I know for sure is a lot better than a laptop. Laptops also are overpriced, you can get a very good PC instead of a good laptop. For streaming, making youtube videos would IMO fit better on a PC unless you have plans on using it in school/somewhere else.

 

Darkest Dream has a solid suggestion, the build quality and hardware in Macbooks are excellent to be honest.

At that budget though you could build yourself a solid gaming PC and still have money to spare at the end. If you're interested in building a desktop I'd be more than happy to point you towards a few builds that I recommend, and they all fit within your budget.

 

Have you tried going on twitch and looking at people's specs on there? You can usually find people's full builds and even use the streamers' codes for discounts on the gear.

 

[Lilmj27]

1500 euro is plenty to make something.

If you're really set on making videos and streaming, you're going to want them to be as high quality as possible. But that also depends on the game you're playing, if you're doing RS, you don't need to splurge at all, but if you're playing something like star wars or something like that, you'll need more.

Another thing, if you're planning on streaming, make sure your internet is good.

I'd say a decent I7, a GTX 960+, and then just some other high quality hardware would be good enough.