Streaming prioritizes more cores over faster cores. Your Internet will be the bottleneck anyway, so 60FPS is good, then your PC needs to pack those 60FPS for streaming.
Gaming only is easier, there is only one priority: You
Can ditch two cores for a lift in CPU-bottleneck (a lot of games are very bound by single core speed).
I have an R7 1700x (paried with a 5700xt) for heavy multitasking and video rendering. In gaming, it struggles a bit.
My secondary computer (R5 2600 and Rx 580) is a way better pairing.
If you’re dead set on the 680x then something like this would do you pretty well, unfortunately white components can be very pricey so I tried to get in as much white without breaking the bank too much, although that case does cost a lot
There are a few things on there that are out of stock and some can be got for cheaper elsewhere, but I think something like that (or with a 5700xt which from what I remember is a bit more powerful but for the same money) will be a good basis for you to start on. Obviously you can upgrade as you go too
Also, I’d say the power supply shouldn’t really need to be white since most cases will hide it, you could get braided extensions that are white in the future to add some white onto the build.
I think the 6gb model is the rtx 2060 whereas the 8gb model is the 2060 super (the super was a refreshed model that came out around the launch of AMD’s 5700xt)
I think the best you’ll get for white on a motherboard for a reasonable price (in an atx formfactor) would be something like the Asrock b450 steel legend:
Also, the motherboard can be a little black, it matches the black and white tone of the case anyway, I’d just prefer it to have as much white on it as possible! I’ll take a look at those motherboards
If you’re gonna be streaming too, it may be better for you to go with Nvidia and make use of their nvenc encoder, it can do pretty well for streaming and means that you don’t have to have your cpu doing everything on that side of things.
Problem with all the GPU based encoders is the quality. AMD and Nvidia both have the same problem where the stream delivered has loads of artifacts. TL;DR of the video below: Nvenc is okay-ish for point&click adventure games.
TL;DR of the GN video: At least a 2070 when streaming 720p30 (which is ENOUGH at the bitrate Twitch allowes) because the encoder is meh. On the R5 3600, just set OBS to fast x264 and you are off to the races.
Should maybe add: Audio is more important than image
Ah I did know that there were some things that nvenc had issues with before, I personally use x264 since it suits my needs better, but good to know that I’m definitely using the right encoder settings
Tbh I would probably personally go for the b450 steel legend ASRock Board since it’s half the price and basically has all the same features. The only real differences I can see are that it has slightly less white on it and has a Realtek Ethernet port rather than intel.
