But I dont think it will require a more hefty CPU/GPU. FRAPs taxes the system greatly, so the need for a quad core, a lot of RAM, good GPU, and an SSD are required for optimal recording.I'd say that it'd capture and hold that in a small buffer, and stream this. It's still definitely an additional demand on CPU and GPU.
I wont be surprised.When your streaming, you use applications such as Xsplit, OBS and the such, unless I am mistaken, there is encoding involved, so it would be very beneficial for a good i7 processor, and a mid-high range graphics card. (or AMD equivalent)
The i7 is a quad core with 4 virtual cores, making it show up as 8 cores in Windows. I think that is the same with AMD, but it is advertised as a 8 core CPU.
True, there is a limit. I guess we will wait and see where consumer CPUs go in the next few years. I wont be surprised if Intel doesnt do much on the desktop front since the business is going downhill. They will focus more on 8 core mobile CPUs probably.Most games can't take advantage of the extra 4 cores in the 8350, hence why I said in heavily multithreaded environments. The big difference would be with the 8350 when they started streaming the processor would just use the other half that not doing anything meaning no impact on the game. A i5 that's already being utilized to its max will have a reduction in performance.
Photoshop will perform better on the 8350 because more cores = better performance.