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CastleFox  
#1 Posted : Saturday, March 22, 2025 12:44:27 AM(UTC)
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I need a custom PC for doing Vmix with one remote guest and in studio Host. I'll be doing media playback, photos and videos, recording locally and uploading to social later.
I will be feeding in 2 Blackmagic Studio Camera 6K Pros and using SM7B Mic for Host which will do remote call with Guest. This computer will DOUBLE as my main editing PC to post everything later.

WHAT PC would you build and what specs? Intel? AMD? A list would be great.
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elvis55  
#2 Posted : Saturday, March 22, 2025 5:30:48 AM(UTC)
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vMix is a Windows based software only.
Intel. The latest generation AMD processors (3000 Series Ryzen and Threadripper) are now fully supported by VMIX.
https://www.vmix.com/sof....aspx#systemrequirements
DeanJohnsonProductions  
#3 Posted : Monday, March 24, 2025 8:48:32 PM(UTC)
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For reference I have an amd 3600 6 core cpu, Nvidia 5070 TI and 32GB of Ram. I stream in 4k 60P to youtube and watch it on a 2nd monitor in 4k. My CPU and GPU usage never goes above 50%. Lives in the high 30s. Thats not a dream PC but its pretty cheap with a lot of headroom. My nvidia 3060 Ti used the exact same GPU usage as the 5070ti...so I paid 1,000 to see no added value in that area. As for a DREAM PC the latest Intel and AMD cpus will be pretty similar. What you should surprisingly look at is the motherboard. You need multiple PCIe 16x slots. 4.0 and 5.0. Why? Bc 1 slot will be the video card....you may want to buy an internal capture card....you may want to have a 10gb NAS and add a 10Gb NIC. You need at least multiple USB 4.0/thunderbolt 4....maybe even look for thunderbolt 5. Multiple m.2 slots. You have to read the fine print and see what filling up all of your slots do. For instance when I have 2 cards in my PCIe slots it turns my 1st slot to 8x and 2nd to 4x. when I have both m.2 slots also filled it makes my slot 1 4x. 8x means I have half the bandwidth....4x means I have a 4th. Some motherboards give you a max loss in PCIe speed of 8x but you gotta read the fine print in the specs. My motherboard is only PCIe 3.0 in 1st 2 slots and 2.0 in the 3rd. PCIe is 1GB per lane and PCIE 2 is 512GB per lane. My nvidia 5070 ti is only getting 8x PCIe 3 and it has zero performance bottleneck at 8x or 16x...but a 5090 or 4090 would. So look at an AM5 motherboard and the latest intel motherboards. Find your favorite motherboard of the 2 and let that decide which CPU to go with. Absolutely go nvidia on the GPU. Try to make sure your GPU has at least 2 nvidia ENCODE chips and 1 decode. that starts at the 5070 TI. the 5080 has 2 of each and the 5090 has 3 encode and 2 decode.
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