Hey BOLL , rather than me explain in lengh, I found this via Google+: youtu.be/Q_blwJ8kVdo which will give your the absolute basics of using 2x GPU's for OBS. However, what I did not explain before (limited character allowance on Steam), this does not work for every, varies between the CPU processing the encoding split, your motherboards lane bandwidth and possibly the GPU. I gave up on it personally as it did not return much more performance over power usage, bandwidth and cost of course. I also gave up on streaming too, as the quality is always so poor (I want 4K HDR minimum) and prefer editing all shares: youtube.com/thefazzproject (though I have been a little preoccupied these past 18 months taking life to another level... to be shared on my channel in the coming months)

AMD GPU's? ... no... and by the rumours, no where near Nvidia's next sexy GPU generation... though, all fake news/usual Fakebook BS/rumours still

Is it possible to put OBS on a separate GPU? If so that is interesting. Right now the i5 with four threads is choking badly on OBS+VR so I'm definitely in the market for a juicy AMD CPU. I also had AMD way back then, but has been on Intel what feels like forever now. I'm really happy to see them come back with a vengeance as the market felt super stagnant. Question is if they can also compete with Nvidia on the GPU front, so far I'm still using Nvidia GPUs. Cheers!

Sorry for the triple postings BOLL , Steam is the 'best of the best' for all things gaming/fun, but awful for anything social (why I keep to Google+), but hopefully helpful to you rather than annoying

Happy gaming and see you in game virtually, some time soon

[1/3] Hey again BOLL, I would highly recommend AMD's current high-end CPU range, for the costs and the additional on-board features that come with it (X399's), that helps with makes creative work (speed and quality) and again (importantly) cheaper

[2/3] The last I personally used an AMD CPU was back in the 2000's and five weeks later, I sprinted back to Intel due to the usual rubbish that comes with 'anything' AMD, but times have certainly changed and improved for AMD , not to say Intel are not great still, they just cost so much more for no real world additional power (consumer wise). It's like Nvidia's Titan Xp Vs. the 1080Ti, sure it's a better card, but unnoticeable in any gaming and only seconds apart when editing/rendering/compressing/etc

[3/3] If you really want be streaming your VR playthroughs in real-time with minimal loss, you will need a second GPU to handle the output, but of course (modernly) does not need to be as powerful as you main/primary GPU