PC / Desk streaming setup
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What a PC / Desk build is
A PC / Desk build is 3 required components plus 7 optional ones: camera, audio, software, and optionally interface / mixer, mic arm, capture card, lighting, green screen, control deck, headphones / headset. Pick a part for each slot above and the planner totals the price and reports the highest stream quality tier the combination can hold, together with which of the four limits binds first: the encoder ceiling, the uplink budget, the codec, or the platform cap.
Verdicts are planning budgets from our published model, not lab measurements. The methodology sets out every constant, and the bitrate calculator runs the same model on a connection alone.
Worked example: Desk streaming setups at $67, $366, and $570: what each tier changes.