Hi Guys,

Looking at building a Azrock X300 small PC for basic one or two camera operations.

Want to: Record, Stream 1 Camera replay or 2 cameras one PC Capture and record/ stream

So went looking for a Ryzen AM4 chip under 65watt.

3400G and 3600 work. The G is cheaper / slower CPU but apparently the G means RX Vega 11 Graphics.

I found some gaming comparisons that RX Vega 11 Graphics is on par with 1050 (not sure if I trust them)

Anyone have suggestions or has built something similar?

Thanks

Mike

Thanks Vince... I know about the reference systems, however they are too physically big and expensive for such a small use case.

We have big vMix rack PCs for the larger shows, but I need to build for the small one or two camera use case. No use cracking a small nut with a steamroller :)

Ill have one of these in a few days. Ill report back how it goes...

KJ4AWR, could you send here some photos of The PC, task manager graphics and vMix screen showing The performance?

Yeah, next time I'm at the building for maintenance I'll get a picture. Most of the work I do is done remote, so I will get the screen shots that way.

This is the case I got : https://www.amazon.com/g...ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

OK So I have my X300 and a 3400G chip. Yuan High Tech M.2 capture card with 2 SDI inputs. Have 2 x 8gb 2133mhz ddr4 sticks

I set it up to Record, stream at 1080 p 59.97

CPU was reading about 30-40%.

Added a single camera replay and played back at 100% Speed CPU 50-60%.

When I added a second input the CPU went to about 70 and if I added that second camera to the replay machine it maxed out the CPU.

It has been running solid for about 4 hours with the single input and single camera replay and still going.

The option to set the record to hardware encode was available and I selected it. No option for hardware encode on the stream end.

Seems to be solid and do a single camera stream. I think it would handle a 2 camera production and stream/ record without much trouble. I am going to get some faster RAM tomorrow as that apparently increases the performance of the APUs. Ill keep you posted. Definitely interested in a 5000 APU with the "G" Ill report back with more info once I have done some more scenario testing.

I recently upgraded my small form factor build from an AMD Ryzen 2400G to a Ryzen 4750G. It was a really nice upgrade. 8 cores instead of the 4 cores of the 2400G. I can do 4 cameras, with instant replay, recording, and streaming using the built-in graphics. Because this is a small form factor build, the one single PCIe slot is used for a 4-port capture card, not a graphics card.

vMix can use GPU encoding for recording, but not streaming (or instant replay recording). For streaming encoding, I set the preset to "ultrafast", which reduces the CPU load. Hopefully vMix will someday support AMD GPU encoding for streaming as well as recording. But hey, at least it supports it for recording. Something is better than nothing.