Son wants to start recording some game videos for youtube. His computer is dated with a G620 and R250 GPU. It plays Minecraft and some other games he plays fine, but no way is it going to record and play them. His MB (H61H2-M2 V1.0) will take an Ivy Bridge so I was thinking of a used i5-3570 or i7-3770. I believe the heatsink is the stock one from my i5-2500K, so it should cool them. As for the GPU it just needs to play and record 1080p in Minecraft, RoBlox, Scrap Mechanic, etc. Just stuff a younger kid would play. Trying to keep the cost down so above $150 is really pushing it for the GPU. Remember he uses a R250 now, so anything is going to be way faster. Also looking at the Blue Snowflake mic. Seems like a good mic from what I have read.
This will be for Christmas, so I have some time for prices to come down and to catch sales. Just started looking into this for him, so I am looking for suggestions.
This will be for Christmas, so I have some time for prices to come down and to catch sales. Just started looking into this for him, so I am looking for suggestions.