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Review on ⚡ YOTOCAP YT-501 PCI-E Capture Card with 4K 60fps Video HDMI Input/Output, Full HD Recording, UVC Plug and Play - Ideal for OBS Studio and Live Streaming by Carl Estell

Revainrating 5 out of 5

1080P/60 Video Capture Card

Although I didn't get one from Revain I'm posting this quick review as there aren't many. I only use it for writing, so I don't know how it fares for streaming, but here are a few things I noticed about this card with OBS. This capture card works great with OBS and it's easy enough to learn the basics of OBS to get up and running quickly as it doesn't require any drivers from what I've found so far when used with Win10. The i5 3570 is the minimum CPU I recommend when shooting at 1080p/60fps. It notes that my CPU is at 70-80% utilization while my i3-7100 is at 80-90% utilization, but from time to time it pops up a message saying it's overloaded, but the shots still come out fine. If you switch to recording at 1080/30 fps, the CPU load drops a bit and the i3-7100 is more than sufficient. (FYI: the i3-7100 is dual-core but hyper-threaded, so about 70-80% quad-core). The 4k pass works as my i3-7100 system is hooked up to a 70" 4k TV and the picture looks great. from an end-to-end connection. For editing video shotcut with this card at 1080/60 I would say i5-6600K (overclocked to 4.2GHz) or Xeon E3-1275-V2/i7-3770 along with GTX 1050Ti or RX570 are about as slow as I would recommend. Also, I would only use the processor for encoding if you need small files and decent quality. I haven't found any settings that use hardware encoding that creates small files with a decent image. Quality, but when quality is less important than time, hardware encoding with quick sync or hardware encoders in graphics card is much faster when time is more important than quality/size.

Pros
  • New
Cons
  • Slightly Torn