UPDATE: We have had success making the existing i5-8400 rig do 60fps @ 1080 and only ~25% CPU. Thanks to @New Retro Repair for noting about the "intel-media-va-driver-non-free" package for Ubuntu which does permit you then to utilise the VAAPI part of the CPU (6th gen onwards). Also thanks @mijc Osis for the T400 suggestion, I did order one but since I worked out about the VAAPI non-free driver I've since put a cancel on that order; was still a reasonable possible option, thanks. ---------------------------------------------- I'm looking to move to a streaming machine that'll let me stream at 60fps. My current setup of an i5-8400 + 16GB + AJA KONA 4 port capture will give me 30fps fairly consistently and still have enough overhead to let me do various tasks such as browsing and running FlexBV without killing the stream quality. I have an 20Mbps upload capability, so I'd stream perhaps up to ~10Mbps ( currently with YT I stream at 5~6Mbps ) What I'm curious about is if I can get 60fps with a jump to the i5-12500 (retail) 65W + new mainboard, or if I'm going to fall way too short (maybe 50fps?) While I love AMD I will be sticking with Intel for this for sanity reasons with multihead display output under linux, likewise no eGPU for the same reasons. If it cannot be done, it cannot be done, but I would sooner push to an i7-12xxx than move to AMD or acquire eGPU. I have my reasons from experience.