Keep it a buck: is hyperthreading a scam?

[el_oh_el]

if you play normally 150 fps, streaming will knock you down to 70-80 FPS very easily if you are using any kind of quality in your stream

why you think pro FPS players play on low settings

Who the fukk can see 150fps??
A 2mbps stream should have you nice and steady

 

[itsyoung!!]

Who the fukk can see 150fps??
A 2mbps stream should have you nice and steady

at this whole post

we at 244 hz monitors now

2mbps stream quality will be trash

 

[Killigraphy]

The only scam are the prices. Always have been.

 

[Liquid]

Why would an i5 have problems streaming video ..even without multi threading

To answer the OP, no hyper threading is not a scam.

It is a big deal especially with streaming. Its one of the reasons the Ryzen 5 series is making noise

 

[el_oh_el]

at this whole post

we at 244 hz monitors now

2mbps stream quality will be trash

You're correct, but if we're talkin about twitch streaming then you don't wanna go too much above that.
And I doubt anyone can see much past the 120hz screens but I could be wrong. I could have sworn I've read that we can't resolve much past 60fps...but just now read something contrary to that. So in that case I guess a drop from 150 to 90 would be noticible

 

[daze23]

those competitive fps players like to play at like 300fps. even if you can't 'see' all those frames, it's gonna make the game feel more responsive

 

[GoldenGlove]

Depends on what you're using it for. For gaming i5 is fine but i7 will be better. For any type type of video, audio, or processing load yes an i7 will be a great benefit.

I have an i5-3570k right now, what i7 CPUs should I be checking for for improved video/audio processing and twitch streaming?

 

[Rice N Beans]

Hyperthreading is good with more core/thread sclaing work like rendering video and whatnot. Do you NEED it? No, of course not. If you don't do that type of work you'll more than likely not benefit much. For gaming an i5 can trade with an i7 where hyperthreading matters less.

 

[StatUS]

I have an i5-3570k right now, what i7 CPUs should I be checking for for improved video/audio processing and twitch streaming?

 

[itsyoung!!]

You're correct, but if we're talkin about twitch streaming then you don't wanna go too much above that.
And I doubt anyone can see much past the 120hz screens but I could be wrong. I could have sworn I've read that we can't resolve much past 60fps...but just now read something contrary to that. So in that case I guess a drop from 150 to 90 would be noticible

those competitive fps players like to play at like 300fps. even if you can't 'see' all those frames, it's gonna make the game feel more responsive

because a 300 fps dip to 200 fps will still be smooth (and rarer on low settings since explosions etc take less of a fps hit and shadows are off etc) but a 90 fps dip to 45 fps dip will be very noticeable

I play on a 144 hz 1 ms screen average FPS around 140-160 on max settings on Overwatch

when they released the new patch this past week, it reset my settings to 60 FPS I thought my computer was dying felt like I was playing in slow motion started to panic until I realize my settings changed

changed back to 144 hz glory

the gap from 144 to 240 is very less noticable than from 60 to 144 though

edit: twitch streamers were doing 3 mbs and now they upped the limit to 6. 2 is way too low to stream at any good quality above 720/30 fps