Thanks everyone. I streamed perfectly fine up to 720 with a 1st gen i7 860, and this i5 looks to be about the same as my current i7 2600k, so I dont see any problems on the cpu side (from a work persepctive, i do actually need more, but the programs aren't properly optimised for hyper threading, so i cant be bothered caring). In fact the main reason I still havent bought anything is because outside of the gpu, its pretty much the same power as my current. But my graphics driver is constantly crashing and not fixed by formatting, so Im thinking something is starting to die finally.
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