Two things I really want to do:
1) Add the ability to use two dual monitors.. I've had a lot of issues with this with two non-hdmi monitors haha.
2) Upgrades I can do to make my PC stream ready. I want to be able to stream Poker.
Here are my specs:
Case X-2 Outlaw Case -
Motherboard MSI B250M BAZOOKA - NON-SLI
Processor Intel® Dual Core™ Pentium G4560 Processor -
Kaby Lake Dual Core 3.5Ghz
Memory Xidax Extreme DDR4 2666MHz Memory - 8gb -
Power Supply Xidax Performance Power Supply 550W -
Optical Drive 24X DVD-RW Combo -
Graphics Card RADEON RX 460 2GB -
Sound Cards Onboard Audio -
HDD/SSD Seagate Barracuda 1TB - 7200RPM 3.5" HDD - SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache
CPU Cooling Default Cooler -
CPU Paste Standard CPU Thermal Paste -
GPU Paste Standard Graphics Card Thermal Paste -
OS Windows 10 Home Premium 64-Bit -
AMD suggests that if you want to run multiple displays you should use a DisplayPort MST Hub (supports up to 5, apparently).
First upgrade on your machine for anything is probably adding an SSD, whether in place of your Barracuda or as an extra. I haven't looked at what bays you have available.
If you're wanting to stream then you could do a lot worse than replacing that processor with an i5/i7, just need to check which generation your mobo will support
AMD suggests that if you want to run multiple displays you should use a DisplayPort MST Hub (supports up to 5, apparently).
First upgrade on your machine for anything is probably adding an SSD, whether in place of your Barracuda or as an extra. I haven't looked at what bays you have available.
What outputs does your RX460 have? It should have at least 2 ports between display port, HDMI and DVI. I would steer clear of MST. It may work better now, but my coworkers experienced a lot of flakiness when trying MST on their home machines a couple years back.
You CPU is pretty low end and only has 2 cores. Moving to a core I5 would help with trying to do more things at the same time.
Check the supported CPU list for your board, looks like this chipset can support 6th and 7th gen procs, so Core i5 6xxx or 7xxx.
You can also add another 8GB of RAM if its in budget. 8GB is a good baseline, but more will help with multitasking. CPU upgrade is probably more of a priority than RAM.
