furrywulfz, I know what you're saying, I've been discussing all of this with other people a lot. The thing is, I don't think my streaming setup is taxing at all. I stream at 30 FPS, 1200 KB/s bitrate and 960x540 resolution. I can't even lower it anymore if I want the quality to be at least somewhat decent. Maybe lower the resolution to 480p, but I don't think it would make a difference. I'm surprised you stream at 800 KB/s though.

I was stuck with rgb emulation on my laptop since it has an amd cpu. But after some messing with settings I was able to run straight off the graphics card/cpu incidentally