How to Set Up a New PC for Gaming and Streaming in 2020

hey everyone welcome to this tutorial video where i'm going to be walking you through the steps of getting a new computer set up for the very first time and yes you could also use this if you are repurposing an old computer i'm going to be setting up this computer that i just recently built it's my june build of the month and all the parts inside would cost you around 900 this video is going to be broken up into four parts the first part is going to be doing system setup in the uefi before you install windows second step is going to be installing windows 10 the third step is going to be doing driver updates and setting up windows 10 with software and then the fourth step is going to be getting gaming stuff set up so i'll be installing steam and i'll also be installing obs to do a quick gaming and streaming configuration excellent the modmic series by ant lion features three broadcast quality mics which can be attached to headphones or a vr visor to create the ultimate headset the 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already downloaded off of this system onto the new one you will need some external storage you'll need a usb drive that's four gigabytes or bigger it's gonna need to be formatted as fat32 but you probably don't need to worry about that because the installer will automatically format it for you and then especially if you're upgrading from an old system and you want to transfer stuff over or get stuff backed up it helps to have an external storage drive i'm using this asus rog aryan because it's an external m.2 nvme drive so it's very fast but you could use any larger size usb drive or an external 2.5 inch drive for example it probably goes without saying but just to be thorough you will need a monitor for your computer and you will also need peripherals like a mouse and a keyboard and then of course you will need internet access which i'm assuming you have since you're watching this video but i'm representing it by my ethernet cable over here which is connected to my local network switch on the wall you can also get by with wi-fi if the motherboard you used has it pre-installed this motherboard does not so i'm going to be relying on our wired connection so we're going to do system setup with the new system and the first part of that is going to be updating the bios or uefi which is the software setup environment that's built into the motherboard then we're going to enable the xmp settings for the memory and that makes sure the memory is running at its rated speed rather than its default speed which is usually slower so on my other computer the one that i already have that's functional i'm going to go to the motherboard manufacturer's product page for the motherboard that i've chosen and in this build we're using the b550 aorus pro go over to the support page and you should be treated to a download section bear in mind this is a gigabyte motherboard if you have an asus or an msi it might look a little bit different than this but you should be able to access the main functional things we're going to expand the bios tab here to see which bios options are available and i can see there is an f1 bios since this is a really new motherboard this is the one that it shipped with the first release and it does look like they have an update to version f2a at this point i don't know which bios version my motherboard shipped with so i'm just gonna download the latest version just to make sure i have it on hand now that's all we really need for the next step right now but just while i'm here on this other computer i'm going to go ahead and do a couple other things one is to download the latest windows 10 installer they call it installation media and there's a tool for that so so you can go to the microsoft.com website which i will link down in the video subscription if you want a direct link to it and just click download tool now that will download the latest media creation tool and then i'm going to take my usb drive and i'm going to make sure i don't have anything on here that i want to save because it's going to be completely erased and i'll plug it into my other computer and by this point you may have noticed that i'm not actually using this laptop i was just using it as a visual aid and doing everything on my other system over here with my usb drive plugged in i go to my downloads folder and i'm going to launch the media creation tool that i just downloaded and now as with many steps in this process we will have a short wait read the license agreement thoroughly and hit accept and now we have the option to upgrade the pc we're on or create installation media we want to create the installation media and we'll use the default settings windows 10 and 64-bit you can create an iso file that you can burn a dvd with but nobody does that anymore let's just use the usb flash drive we'll hit next and there's only one usb flash drive connected to this system that is viable so we'll select that and also hit next now it's going to erase everything on that drive reformat it and make it into a windows 10 installation media device i'm doing a few things a little out of order and that's just because i'm trying to do everything on the secondary computer that needs to be done before we move on to working with the new system so now i'm going to plug in my mass storage device and do a little bit of backing up of stuff on this system so if you're upgrading from an old system you want to make sure that you have everything off of it that you might need to save it helps to back up your my documents folder it helps to get a list of all the applications you have installed so you can reinstall them and you may have your own filing system for where you save all of your important data especially irreplaceable stuff like pictures just make sure all that stuff is backed up ideally to multiple drives that aren't installed on the system that you're backing up i'm going to plug this in real quick just passed 69 percent uh on setting up the windows 10 installer and look we have a nice clean empty drive to backup stuff with now you might have multiple drives connected to the system so just reality check i'm going to be backing up to this new drive that i just plugged in and i'm going to focus on just backing up steam games that you might have downloaded because if you're on a metered internet connection or you just don't want to wait for some game that's 20 or 50 or 100 gigs you can save some time this way now steam will automatically install to your c drive under program files x86 and then you can find the steam folder and then you should have a steam apps folder and then in there you should have a folder called common in the common folder you will have any games that are installed to the system so there i have civilization 6 installed but i actually did another steam library on this computer because i have an additional ssd so on that i have a steam library steam apps and commons so basically what you're looking for with steam is the steam apps folder and then the common folder within that and then you should have all these folders with games that you have installed for me that's about 114 gigs worth so on my external drive i'm just going to create a folder called games and then steam library and then steam apps and then just grab whichever folder of the game that you want to back up and drag and drop it and it should copy i'm just gonna copy over rocket league for now and now i'm multitasking backing up rocket league to my external drive while i also create that windows 10 media usb which is currently 54 through actually creating the media i will give it a few moments and then i will continue all right my usb flash drive is ready hit finish all right so with my steam games backed up onto my external drive and my usb drive created we are ready to switch back to the new computer that was just built i'm going to do one last thing here i'm going to go into this windows media creation tool usb that i just made i'm going to make a new folder and title it's gigabyte b550 oris pro and then i'm going to grab those downloads that i just did one is the uefi there's a bat file a dot a.exe.txt all we really need here is this dot f2a file which is the uefi itself copying that and then we also got that land driver so i'm going to copy that to this folder as well bingo so i've ejected both drives from my existing functional computer i've got them both here i will save uh my external storage drive for later and i'm going to plug my usb drive directly into one of the usb ports on the back of the i o on this computer and now i'm actually gonna power it on i've got a mouse and keyboard hooked up to this system and right after i power it on as it's booting up for the first time uh within the first five or ten seconds i'm going to tap the delete button on the keyboard that tells the system to go into the uefi you might have seen it for a brief second there so that i can make some changes also if it's a new system you might get a message that says the bios has been reset for example and now here is the uefi or bios bio stands for basic input output system by the way for the b550 aorus pro and up here on the top left we can see we're currently on bios version f1 so the first thing i'm going to do is update the bios and for that gigabyte has a utility built in here called q flash which i can click on or you just press f8 we're going to do a bios update you can also back it up with this tool and i'm going to go to that folder since there's only one drive connected that usb drive that's the one it went to and i can find i can see the folder that i'd made for the b550 oris pro uefi and then there's the version f2a that i just downloaded and hit next are you sure hit yes press to start and bear in mind as the uefi is updating it's you should not unplug or turn off the computer in any way a power outage right now is generally a pretty bad thing it's not as bad as it used to be because these newer motherboards have functions where you can update the uefi if it's corrupted uh without having a cpu installed so that will let you bypass if if something does go wrong but this should only take a few minutes and then you should have an updated bios uefi update is finished and now it's automatically rebooting the system is rebooting automatically after the uefi updates i am tapping the delete button yet again to get back in there so we can set the xmp settings okay we can see we've updated we're on bios version f2a now so that is good and now we're just setting xmp settings for our memory we can see right here under dram status it says xmp disabled i literally just click that once and it enables it most uefi bios interfaces uh gigabytes msi's asus has some functionality like this they also often have an easy mode like what we're looking at right now that shows you some heads-up info about cpu frequencies and temperatures and bios version and they'll often have shortcuts to common tasks like enabling the xmp profile that said most motherboards will also have an advanced mode that usually has a menu going across the top uh however this usually does have that same function here it's it's right here xmp profile and you can see it's already enabled it because we did it from the other setting now we're just gonna hit the f10 button that should save exit and reset we're gonna hit yes we are now ready to install windows 10 so we need to tell the system to boot off of that usb drive that i plugged in rather than attempting to boot off of the 2.5 inch ssd that i installed when i built the system in the previous video again there are multiple ways to do this from the uefi you can often go to boot settings and you can change the boot order to boot off of the usb drive rather than the ssd but a lot of motherboards now also have a function as it's booting up called a shortcut boot menu basically so usually it's accessed by hitting f10 f11 or f12 it varies from motherboard to motherboard but just like you hit delete to access this interface to get into the uefi i believe with this board it's f12 that you would hit to access this menu but then you're offered different options to boot from so we can see the ssd that's installed and there's two ways to boot off of the usb drive you can just boot off of it directly or you can boot off of it in uefi mode you want to do uefi mode if you want to install windows 10 in uefi mode which is what you want to do so that's what i've chosen and now it has booted off of that usb drive and we can start installing windows now here we choose the language and time and keyboard and we can mostly leave those at default you should change them if you're in a different region you can also access repair functions here so don't throw away this usb drive once you're done installing windows because it can be useful if you ever have any problems in the future i'm going to hit install and right off the bat windows asks you for a product key you may have a product key if you have an older version of like windows 7 or windows 8 and you have a product key from that go ahead and plug it in and see if it works but for now most people can just hit i don't have a product key and you can still go through with the entire installation you will need to choose which version of windows 10 to install so if you are planning on purchasing a product key in the future or you already have one make sure you choose the version that you're planning to activate with the key most likely that's going to be either windows 10 home or windows 10 pro and i usually go with windows 10 pro more licensing agreements which we will read thoroughly and then here if it's an existing system that already has windows you can upgrade but i always do custom because i want to do a clean installation that lets you start fresh now here depending on what drives you have connected they will be separated by partition the drive number represents an individual drive so the single drive that i have installed is currently partitioned into two partitions so they're both labeled as drive zero if you have other drives connected to the system you might see drive one with more partitions on it drive two and so on windows 10 does a pretty good job of just installing to the drive that you tell it to if you want to be super super super safe then you can unplug any drives connected to your system that aren't the drives that you want to install windows 2. that said if there are existing partitions on the drive you should delete them and bear in mind this is going to delete all data on the drive if you have a brand new drive you should just see this drive 0 unallocated space just select that and hit next and now it's going to do windows 10 installation and this part should really go fairly quick depending on the setup that you're installing from and how fast your usb drive is in my experience though it's anywhere from 8 to 15 minutes so that was actually really quick i feel like this gets faster every time but it was between 5 and 10 minutes probably closer to 5 and now we're doing windows 10 first time setup stuff like selecting the region or in the united states us keyboard layout of course you should choose whatever applies to you if you are installing this and you're not in the us or you have a different keyboard layout that you're used to as you're doing this keep in mind you have an ease of access button down here so you can turn on a narrator that will read stuff to you and you can also do an on-screen keyboard that will let you type stuff in uh if for some reason your keyboard's not working uh just just fairly useful stuff to know we're doing this for personal use this is one of the things that asks you because we're using windows 10 pro and then microsoft is going to encourage you to sign in with a microsoft account which you can do and in fact if you have a windows 10 license attached to your microsoft account you can sign in with it here and then windows will behave as if it's activated i like to do offline accounts with my systems just a personal preference for quite some time microsoft really pushes you towards not doing this but yes yes i want the limited experience microsoft please or even better use an online account no give your computer a fun name i usually name it after the motherboard and that helps me figure out which computer i'm accessing if it's on the network or something and then create a password and i always recommend doing that here for the sake of this demonstration i'm going to skip that so i don't have to keep punching it in now here's the privacy screen and if you're not familiar with windows 10 or if you haven't kept up with it windows 10 does a lot of calling home and reporting of data here is where you can somewhat limit what data is sent back to microsoft so like speech recognition find my device inking and typing find my device by the way you might want to leave on if you're dealing with a laptop but i usually turn that off at id off i just turn all of these off and microsoft is still going to collect data on your you via windows 10 and send it back to microsoft servers but this will at least tell them hey i'd rather you not this is just a way of telling them to track you less no i don't want activity history across devices i do not want cortana to help me out i'm going for a simple clean installation oh oh hi and microsoft still likes to say hi to you at this point and after just a few more minutes of waiting we are now uh we're in windows 10. windows 10 has installed and and here it is and it's popped up edge or microsoft edge to tell you welcome and now we can start doing some setup stuff but the first thing i'm going to point out to you is that right down here in the bottom right we have internet access so that's pretty cool this version of windows 10 was able to automatically recognize the network adapter that's built into this motherboard and that means that we don't need to use this driver that we downloaded so that's cool at this point we can move on to windows 10 setup and the first thing i do with windows 10 setup is run windows update over and over and over again if you press the windows button and type update update it should bring you to the windows updates interface and you can hit check for updates and it should find updates and it should update your system and then it might prompt you for a restart or something like that basically you just want to do this over and over again until it tells you that there are no more updates remaining part of the benefit of downloading the latest windows 10 installer from the microsoft site is that you should have fewer of these updates that you have to install that said there's always going to be some and yes you should always install the updates first and whenever you're prompted to restart you should restart and after you restart do windows update again while i'm waiting for those updates to finish i have some ui tweaks that i pretty much always do with a new windows install and you can do these or nots it's just something that i always do so i might as well show you i go to desktop icons which is in themes and related settings desktop icon settings is here and i like to have computer on the desktop and that's purely a personal preference you may or may not be interested in that but i like to be able to right click computer to go to manage your properties the next thing i do is some changes to file explorer which you can open just by clicking file explorer down there at the bottom if you expand this ribbon across the top and go to view you have a few options here as well such as click the folder options box here and you can tell it to open file explorer to this pc rather than quick access and then you can go over to view and i like to tell it to display the full path to show hidden files folders and drives to not hide empty drives and to not hide extensions for known file types this one of all the things is the thing that irritates me the most and i always turn that off another thing we can do while windows update is running is go over to google and we will uh for the time being we're gonna go to amd b550 chipset driver so just go over to the amd drivers and support page and they have a tool that you can download to run and and it will detect your hardware to install the right software but i'm just going to go ahead and go over here to chipsets and go to the socket am4 chipsets and go to the b550 and hit submit here the latest chipset drivers direct from amd for that and then we'll hit download and uh run or save run or save run once it's done and now we will start our chipset installation i would normally wait until the windows updates are all finished for this but uh and we do have a pending restart for that actually hold on i'm getting ahead of myself uh yes quit this would probably be fine but we're trying to be on the safe side here and recommend best practices if you have a pending restart scheduled for something like a windows update especially if it's a cumulative update or something like that do the restart first before you install other vital drivers like chipsets and often with windows updates restarts you will have to wait a few minutes for that too checking windows updates once again all right so this should hopefully mean we're done with windows updates you sure are you sure windows okay we're good okay back to the v550 drivers and support page back to downloading this for some reason since i told edge to run i have no idea what it did with the file afterwards i'm gonna hit save this time edge does save to the downloads folder so i don't know where it put that temp file that it downloaded before but it's okay we are now installing the amd chipset drivers and as you'll see in just a moment this actually does several things for our system such as installing and activating the amd ryzen power plan which is the best and most optimized power plan available for the cpu at this point it's better than the default one for windows and then you have a bunch of drivers just making sure everything works properly so we're going to hit install and hey look we get to restart yet again just a couple more things to do with windows setup one is going to be the gpu driver and nvidia if you've got an nvidia card has gpu drivers that are approved by windows or microsoft and those get the whql certification and that means that if you run windows update over and over again you will automatically download a driver for your nvidia gpu it's probably going to be an outdated driver though so right now we're in version 432 so even though i could just you know start gaming and everything right now this isn't a an official nvidia driver it's going to be best to go and download the latest nvidia driver from their website i hate bing and i hate that it just i don't want it to pers i was saving software installations and updates for next but i'm going to download firefox right now because edge managed to piss me off by doing that so software updates are going to be next and there's default software that ships with the computer and then there's other software that you probably want to install i'm installing firefox right now i have actually heard pretty positive things about the latest version of microsoft edge their browser that they supposedly replaced internet explorer with but i have not tried it yet because every time i use it there's some initial thing that pisses me off and makes me not do it so anyway nvidia drivers let's search for that with firefox oh look at that the top result was the download drivers page and it took me to the download drivers page how useful thank you firefox all right pardon my sarcasm we have a geforce rtx 20 series card the 2060 to be specific so we're going to choose all that windows 10 64-bit hit search hit download 451 hit download again this always messes with me uh with video drivers there's always this extra page that it jumps to before you click download and i always forget that and i'm like wait i thought i downloaded it anyway it's downloading it's a five six hundred megabytes and that's gonna take us from version four three two to four five one dot something downloading the latest drivers for your graphics card is really helpful especially if you're playing brand new brand new games because those will often have driver packs specific to the game that launch so it's just best practice to get the latest drivers here we are we're going to run and install and uh so we're just gonna run that uh package that downloaded and that will kick off yet another installer nvidia has a piece of software called the geforce experience that will run in the background uh it's it it has its pros and it's cons i usually don't install it because i usually set up all my graphics settings by myself that said the geforce experience will like automatically download the latest drivers when they're available and you can also use it to access some of the recording features so for now i i am going to install it but uh you might not want it it's up to you if you're updating a driver uh it can sometimes help to do a clean installation since this is a completely fresh install that's not really necessary and again we'll just give this a few minutes to go through the installation process and again while that's installing in the background i'm going to try to multitask by going over to google gpu drivers installing so the screen may flash a little bit but the next thing i want to do is install some other software some other applications that i'm going to be using you might have a wide range of software that you want to install especially if you're upgrading from an old system where you listed the software you had installed you might want to go and download those directly or updated versions and oh look the graphics driver finished installing so that's good hit close so the first piece of software i always install is a different browser just because i'm really used to doing that i recommend firefox these days firefox is the go-to that said i use chrome pretty often as well i usually roll with both of them installed so here are the four pieces of software i'm going to download right now the first one is hardware info hardware info 64 as it has been known uh just doing the free download there i will save cpu-z is next and these are both what i call monitoring apps i mean they are monitoring apps and i'm going to be running these to double check and verify that my system settings are proper that everything is working the way i told it to work i like the zip english version for cpu-z steam summer sales going on right now i will also be downloading the steam installer right here and finally the latest version of obs studio which is going to be pretty key if you want to record your gameplay or game and stream at the same time which i will hopefully be doing a demo of in just a few minutes so there are my downloads i'm going to go ahead and grab cpu z x64 version and bring it over here into a folder i made called monitoring hardware info as well oh also only need the 64-bit version of that for hardware info 64 i usually just run sensors only you can also do a summary and actually will give you more data than cpu z will give you generally speaking uh also there's always updates for hardware info um and i can never decide whether or not i want it to get the beta version anyway that's fine let's start off with cpuz though because this is a pretty simple way to look at it and we're just reality checking here we've got a ryzen 5 3600 that's installed we can see the speed that it's running at it's bouncing back and forth between about 4.2 gigahertz and a base clock of 3.5 or 3.6 we can take a look at the main board or motherboard tab here and we can see the bios and the bios version that we have installed for example is f2a memory is something that we want to double check to make sure that the xmp values took properly the dram frequency double that should be the memory speed so dram frequency of 1600 megahertz rounding up from 1596 or so here megahertz times 2 is 3200 which is the rated speed of this memory kit that i have installed the kit i'm recommending in the description for the build by the way is 3600 rated speed memory the kit that i installed though is actually a 2x4 gig kit though so i wanted to have all 16 gigs available and you know you could dabble in memory overclocking if you wanted i bet i could run this kit at 3600 if i really wanted to you can look at graphics and stuff here as well but let's jump over to hardware info actually let's also turn down the scaling it's at 300 right now because it's a 4k monitor that's better in that it allows me to see more stuff on screen but probably a little bit smaller for you guys so i hope you can kind of see what's going on here but basically we can see the current minimum maximum and average values for a bunch of different sensors in the system so we can see the current frequency that the cpu is running at which is usually going to be about 3.5 gigahertz peaking at about 4.2 that's pretty standard for it 3600. we can see the memory clock speed that we just looked at in cpu-z it's being reported here as well and then we can see the cpu temperature here and the main thing we're going to want to be looking at is the die temperature there's a bunch of different sensors in the cpu though so showing lots of different things such as the infinity fabric clock and other useful information now because we are using the wraith stealth cooler which is adequate but not the best our temperatures here are probably going to be a little bit higher so seeing an idle temperature of around maybe 30 to 35 degrees celsius is pretty good uh although it's going to vary depending on the ambient temperature in the room that you're in uh with a lower profile cooler you might see something a little bit warmer so 41 or so isn't too terrible when it comes to the minimum here and it's getting up to around 50 or so peaking at about 68. and while right now we're just taking a look at these values to make sure everything's fine and nothing's crazy overheating or anything like that having the software installed will allow you to run it while you're doing other things like playing a game or gaming and streaming and that will allow you to keep an eye on things like oh the cpu is getting pretty warm because the cooler is kind of just getting things done rather than a good cooler maybe i want to upgrade my cooler if your cpu gets too warm it can even start to throttle things a little bit it's usually pretty good at automatically doing that so it won't overheat and cause any actual problems but this is a reason why people do upgrades to their system over time is because they realize like oh no that cooler i have the fan has to spin really fast in order to cool properly so it's loud and then i hear that so i want to swap that out for something that can cool more efficiently or that has fans that can run at lower rpms so it won't generate as much noise and possibly at a lower temperature it might even be able to maintain higher frequencies over time at this point the computer is pretty much set up and good to go and you could go about doing other stuff that you might want to do like installing specific programs i'm gonna do a quick proof of concept to play a game and also game and stream at the same time to that end i have installed steam and logged in via steam guard and then i've also gone ahead and installed obs studio and it went and did an automatic update for me it wants to run the auto configuration wizard which i think i'm going to do just for the sake of simplicity but before that i want to point out that i have added just a few more things to this setup one is a headsets connected to this computer if you want to be able to hear the games you're playing and if you want also jump on your team chat or discord or something like that having a mic is pretty useful for that i recommend a mic that has a hardware mute function built in like this one if you flip it up then it mutes it and that gives you a little bit of peace of mind if you need to step away to do something else that you're not going to be broadcasting what you say also for streaming and this is optional but i dropped a webcam up here webcams are worth their weight in gold these days because they're in such high demand due to people doing telecommuting and stuff but fortunately i have one around so the cost of the webcam and the headset aren't included but these are things that are somewhat necessary although you can get by without them before i do that obs setup for streaming though i want to get steam set up with my games that i've backed up from my other systems i'm going to plug this in and there's my games folder for my external drive and now if you have an external drive especially if it's a faster drive like an ssd you can just use it and point steam towards it as a steam library rather than copying the game i'm just going to go through with my game copying methodology here and there are multiple ways to do this by the way you guys this is just the way that i always use because it seems to be the most consistent so the first thing that i do just to so steam will set up that steam library folder on my local drive here is i install just a small game that i know is going to download quickly and then install that to the c drive i usually use ftl for this because i think it's what it's like 200 megs total so it takes practically no time to install and what that did is on my c drive in my program files x86 folder in the steam folder it now has a steam apps folder as well as the common folder with ftl in there and that's where you want to copy any games that you might be installing so i'm going to go into my game steamright library steam apps folder over here grab rocket league drag and drop it in there next to faster than light and wait for it to copy which hopefully doesn't take too terribly long i guess while it does that i can do more maintenance stuff like removing some of these apps that are pinned to the taskbar like internet explorer you can go into default apps for like your web browser and switch it to firefox if you downloaded that that's a good thing to do and i'll go ahead and pin firefox to the taskbar down here as well might as well do the same with obs studio and steam oh yeah steam the steam shortcut doesn't always work as the shortcut in the taskbar it's whatever it's fine all right the copy finished so now i'm gonna go back to my library over here and i'm gonna go down to rocket league it's offering me the ability to stream this because i have multiple steam computers on my network but you can click the down arrow here and go to this machine and then install on this machine and if i tell it to install in the place where i just copied that folder and i hit next and i agree it should start by creating local game files but in a second it should say discovering existing files it will go through and discover the files then it will check if it needs an update and then it will update it and then you should be able to play the game and for a lot of games especially games that are huge 50 gigs 100 gigs plus these days this could save you a lot of time and again especially if you're on a metered internet connection this could be a nine day difference of whether you can still watch movies on netflix for the rest of the month let's get obs set up and i'm just going to use the auto configuration wizard just for the first time optimizing um you can optimize for streaming or optimize for recording this is up to you whatever you're going to be doing more i'm going to do for recording for right now since i'm not actually going to stream today i'm just going to record and from your computer's perspective some settings might change when it comes to encoding speeds and stuff like that but if your computer is encoding a stream it doesn't really matter to your computer whether it's writing it to a disk and saving it locally or sending it over the internet to twitch or youtube or something like that it's functionally the same amount of work so this is going to take you through some basic settings like what resolution and frame rate you want to be at it's automatically chosen to use the nvinc encoder built into the rtx 2060 so that's nice that's what i would have done anyway so i hit apply settings i'm still going to go back into settings here to check a few other things though for instance our hardware we want to make sure is using the right audio device so for audio out we're just going to use our speakers which is essentially our headphone that's plugged in and for the mic since i plugged in the webcam the webcam has a mic built in but i don't want to use that because it's not a very good mic so we're going to use the mic here hit apply and now we're going to set up our scene with some sources so we're going to have a video capture device that's going to be a webcam let me move that into a better position looks okay once you have something on screen like this a webcam you can hit the alt key to drag in the edges if you want to crop it and then usually your your video of yourself you'll kind of shrink down in the corner here somewhere when i flip down my mic i can see my mic here on the audio and you have a little sound board here a mixer where you can sort of adjust those your mic aux will be a mic if you have that plugged in so you can talk and record that and then your desktop audio here will be what's your game eventually once i load that up and the webcam does have audio but i'm just going to mute that so it doesn't come through i'm just going to double check settings here from what it's set up with the wizard if you go over to output the default mode is simple and it will have your video bitrate and the encoder that's being used in the audio bitrate if you switch from simple over to advanced then you'll have some more functions there and you can adjust a bit rate you can do it otherwise as well nvidia does have an obs guide for using the nv inc encoder about bitrate resolution and stuff like that i'll link this in the description if you want to read through it for some more of the details but here for example we can get a good recommendation for if you're streaming at 1080 60 fps what bit rate you should go for and you want to start off at 6 000 depending on your the upload speed that you're capable of and then you can crank that up a little bit for mixer youtube well not mixer anymore they should update this guide because mixer is not no longer a thing but from 6000 up to like 12 000 for youtube so taking a look at advanced mode uh note the encoder can change here so x264 is encoding on the cpu nvidia nv inc uses the hardware accelerated encoder that's part of our rtx 2060 so that's what we want to use there's different rate control options including cqp which is a constant quality profile and there's definitely something to be said for trying that out but for now i'm going to go with the mode that lots of people have been using for quite some time i'm going to go with a higher bitrate we'll bring it up to let's say 9001 just so it's over 9 000. i'm going to set the keyframe interval to 2. we want the preset on quality the profile on high and we want psycho visual tuning enabled and do note that in advance mode you have a streaming uh encoding box and then you also have recording and if you just want to use the same option for streaming and recording just tell it to use the stream encoder for that and then your cpu won't be doing additional work also for recording i like to save as mkv files just in case anything goes wrong that's easier to recover and if you do do that go over to advanced and turn on automatically remux to mp4 there are a lot of tweaks and stuff you can do with different settings for obs that's why it's nice it actually gives you access to a lot of this stuff but this is a tutorial about setting up a computer and not necessarily about streaming so i'm just going to go with this for now and i'm going to switch my capture over to capture to this folder i made on the desktop all right so rocket league is ready to go and i've loaded hardware info 64 just so i can keep an eye on things and especially these maximum value tabs and the thing i'm keeping probably the closest ion here is going to be the cpu temperature let's go ahead and launch rocket league i've added another thing by the way which is an xbox 360 controller because it's rocket league and i have a better time with the controller okay so rocket league has finished updating i'm running hardware info 64 so we can keep an eye on things while we are running this test and specifically i'm going to be keeping an eye on the cpu temperature maximum temp in particular as well as the frequencies that we're running at so now that the game is running i can alt tab going over to obs and i'm going to add one more source here for our scene and that's going to be game capture and you can tell it to capture any full screen application or a specific window and in this case i'm going to tell it to capture the rocket league window and hit ok and hey there it is keep in mind depending on the resolution that you're playing at and various other factors you might need to resize you can right click go down to transform and fit to screen that helps and if there's something that's 3d rendered but you're on the desktop in 2d mode it might not actually show up in obs until you switch back over to the game like this so at this point just to do a little test i'm gonna hit start recording and i'm going to jump into rocket league and i'm not gonna really do anything i'm just gonna go around the menu a little bit oh also the game capture window should be below the webcam so you can still see the webcam hi stop recording capture folder here all right it looks good it sounds good so i think we're good to play a game oh here's what else i'm going to do i'm going to hit start recording i'm going to reset my settings on hardware info 64 and then i'm going to jump into the game quick play it's kind of weird because i'm capturing recording obs over here and i'm also capturing and recording obs over here it's interesting i haven't played on this map before [Applause] touch the ball that means i'm doing well oh there we go there we go there we go get in there see i was i was there i helped i provided moral support good job gerwin i was an ai player i don't get a block for that that looked like a pretty clutch block to me yes yes clutch goal with only 13 seconds remaining we were already up 4-1 but i think i think that was really the turning point in the game crowd's really into this one [Applause] we won oh i got an achievement all right so now we're going to check out how the system's doing uh i'm going to stop recording over here and we can see that our average temperature was about 73.8 we peaked at 81.8 which is warm but not terrible we stayed within range of reasonable expectations for what the cpu should be running at and we were hitting about 4.2 gigahertz i can't say that that was the whole time we'd have to do some other logging for this or set up another monitor so it could be viewed real time and just double checking my recorded footage which you guys already probably saw a decent amount of uh and it actually turned out pretty nice there there are obviously some tweaks that could be made to optimize things and like i said streaming or using something like obs to capture gameplay and record it there's a lot of details to a lot of different settings that you could go in and mess around with but that's not really the focus of this tutorial the focus is getting your system from having just been built to put together to loading windows to getting games loaded up to actually gaming and possibly even gaming and streaming at the same time now all you need is like a bubbly personality and to be able to say witty things off the top of your head and get people to watch your content i can't help you out with that but hopefully this video has helped you get your new system up and running for the first time to play some games to stream to capture to do the things that people like to do with gaming pcs once they're put together that is all for this video though you guys thank you so much for watching sticking with me through the whole thing relevant links are down in the video's description as well as a link to my store at paulshardware.net where you can buy shirts mugs pint glasses and other super sweet merchandise hit the thumbs up button on your way out if you enjoyed this video and don't forget to subscribe to my youtube channel if you'd 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Channel: Paul's Hardware

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Keywords: computer, PC, PC gaming, personal computer, computer hardware, paulshardware, how to set up a new pc, new computer, new pc, windows installation, windows 10, uefi, bios, USB, media creation tool, drivers, setup, windows, install, installation, walkthrough, tutorial, guide, step by step, build, set up new computer, gaming computer, intel, $500, nvidia, chipset, hdd, ssd, obs, live streaming, game capture, NVENC, RTX 2060, 3600X, ryzen, AMD

Id: CAuGEtVq-f0

Length: 40min 5sec (2405 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 05 2020