I want to buy a CPU for my new rig will it serve me well?

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I am thinking of going for the ryzen 5 2400g build since GFX are ridiculously priced now and i wish to stream/make YouTube videos ie. screen record along with gaming. so is this the right CPU to go for such tasks or should i put in a ryzen second gen cpu and a discrete GFX?

APU is value for money now but is it really needed for me to deviate from this build?

Can't say about screen recording performance but the integrated 2400G gfx is approximately equal to nvidia 1030 provided you buy at least 2 ram sticks of 3000MHz.There are some reports suggesting price drop in gfx cards in near future so you may want to wait a few weeks if possible.Before price increase 1050Ti was selling for ~11k.
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Is it important to have more cpu performance for game recording or GFX performance for game recording?

ramaswamy ganapathy said:
Is it important to have more cpu performance for game recording or GFX performance for game recording?

Depends on the software. Some use CPU, some use GPU for encoding. e.g. Nvidia Shadowplay uses GPU while OBS uses CPU.

OBS can also use Intel Integrated HD graphics to record. Almost zero performance impact for your nvidia or AMD card.
Used to do it frequently on my old PC.

ramaswamy ganapathy said:
I am thinking of going for the ryzen 5 2400g build since GFX are ridiculously priced now and i wish to stream/make YouTube videos ie. screen record along with gaming. so is this the right CPU to go for such tasks or should i put in a ryzen second gen cpu and a discrete GFX?

APU is value for money now but is it really needed for me to deviate from this build?

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G review

^^Screen recording is different from usual video editing/encoding.Don't just post for the sake of posting,at least post something helpful.The above youtube video is a 1 hour unpacking & assembling instruction with not even a single minute of review about how a screen recording software would actually perform on it.

@chimera201 This clears up my query to a good extent i will go for the APU, and i will be using OBS to record most likely.