"I meant a box to ingest from your gaming PC (encoder box). Thanks for all of this info though. I'll probably have to go the streaming PC route, since space is at a premium in the SF Bay Area and I wouldn't have an extra room to put a server in it. Right now my streaming setup is an i7 2600k, which I use to play games on (occasionally, most days I'm just capturing console gameplay) and stream on the same machine. I'm wondering if I should just buy a more powerful processor and keep the streaming/gaming on one machine?" - Sam Houston