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Elgato 4K X 4K144 HDR10 External Capture Card w/ HDMI 2.1

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Electronics.Woot has Elgato 4K X 4K144 HDR10 External Capture Card w/ HDMI 2.1 on sale for $149.99. Shipping is free for Amazon Prime Members (must login with your Amazon account and select a shipping address in order for Woot to apply free shipping) or is otherwise $6 per order.

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Features:
  • 4K X works with almost any HDMI-compatible device, including PS5, Xbox Series X, Switch, Steam Deck, PC, Mac, even your iPhone 15
  • Next-gen capture
  • Up to 4K at 144* frames per second.
  • HDMI 2.1 in/out
  • Record high frame rates up to 240fps in 1080p resolution.
  • VRR passthrough
  • Enjoy smooth gameplay with zero screen tearing.
  • Ultra-low latency
  • USB 3.2 Gen 2 keeps your broadcast and gameplay synced.
  • Onboard tone mapping
  • Play in HDR10 while capturing SDR.

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Electronics.Woot has Elgato 4K X 4K144 HDR10 External Capture Card w/ HDMI 2.1 on sale for $149.99. Shipping is free for Amazon Prime Members (must login with your Amazon account and select a shipping address in order for Woot to apply free shipping) or is otherwise $6 per order.

Thanks community member TenseWinter4345 for sharing this deal

Features:
  • 4K X works with almost any HDMI-compatible device, including PS5, Xbox Series X, Switch, Steam Deck, PC, Mac, even your iPhone 15
  • Next-gen capture
  • Up to 4K at 144* frames per second.
  • HDMI 2.1 in/out
  • Record high frame rates up to 240fps in 1080p resolution.
  • VRR passthrough
  • Enjoy smooth gameplay with zero screen tearing.
  • Ultra-low latency
  • USB 3.2 Gen 2 keeps your broadcast and gameplay synced.
  • Onboard tone mapping
  • Play in HDR10 while capturing SDR.

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Written by SubZero5 | Staff

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Written by TenseWinter4345

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Note that it can't capture 4k144HDR, those numbers are maxes of what it can capture but not all at once. Quoting the website for HDR capture the max frame rates and resolutions are: "up to: 4K30 / 1440p60 /1080P120 HDR"
I have never used this or exactly know what this is but I am guessing this can record from other hardware with HDMI output, for example, Playstation, camera, graphics card etc. Difference- 1. As I mentioned previously, 2. OBS requires system resources which may slow down your PC. With this one, the processing is being done by itself and not the source hardware. Someone, please correct me if I am wrong.
Latency is low but audio is stereo.
Avermedia live gamer ultra 2.1 can do 5.1 audio.

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Quote from NervousDime1975 :
FWIW, I considered buying an Elgato capture device a few years ago to live stream an event that I was recording with an external camera. Instead, I bought a $20 no name USB dongle on Amazon. The cheap one has never given me any trouble and has always worked perfectly fine. I know this one has higher specs, but if your framerate/resolution needs aren't that great it might be worth trying the cheap ones first.
Along those lines, I was going to buy one of these to stream from a Sony zv-e10 II camera, but I found out all it takes is a $10 USBC cable between the camera and the PC to stream in 1080P 60 fps - plenty good enough for me.
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Quote from JimmyAllDay :
Shouldn't the company explain this in any listing or advertisement? Or do they make more money on impulse buyers?
If you don't know what a chainsaw is for, then you probably don't need one.

If you don't know what this is for, then you probably don't need it either.
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Quote from Tech_007 :
This is for offloading some of the processing resources to external devices, plus it is a cross-platform device, not limited to PC only.
how much of processing is it offloading? I was under the impression it takes the full burden to let your computer just have the responsibility of running the game?
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Quote from SmilingHalibut9031 :
how much of processing is it offloading? I was under the impression it takes the full burden to let your computer just have the responsibility of running the game?
This does NOT offload the processing. It simply captures the signal from other hdmi devices. The processing is still done on the host computer.
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Quote from consig1iere :
I have never used this or exactly know what this is but I am guessing this can record from other hardware with HDMI output, for example, Playstation, camera, graphics card etc. Difference- 1. As I mentioned previously, 2. OBS requires system resources which may slow down your PC. With this one, the processing is being done by itself and not the source hardware. Someone, please correct me if I am wrong.
This does NOT offload the processing. It simply captures the signal from other hdmi devices. Such as your PlayStation or Xbox. The processing is still 100% done on the host computer.
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KushConnoisseur
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Does this strip HDCP?
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Quote from JimmyAllDay :
Shouldn't the company explain this in any listing or advertisement? Or do they make more money on impulse buyers?
I don't understand your message, like what were you expecting it to do?
Are you talking about the gpu not being able to record hdmi in?

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LivelyPiranha6911
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So Woot is basically going to scalp the Elgato deal in 2 days?

Elgato's website says there's going to be a discount.

https://www.elgato.com/us/en?utm_...M0&irgwc=1
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jellysandwich
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just a heads up - you may run into an audio desync issue with this. the fix can be found here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/elgato/c...ds_solved/

or here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/elgato/c...io_desync/
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Quote from formosan :
This does NOT offload the processing. It simply captures the signal from other hdmi devices. Such as your PlayStation or Xbox. The processing is still 100% done on the host computer.
Sure it does; it doesn't offload *all* of it, but HDR->SDR, tonemapping, etc., is offloading some processing.

Mainly though it's just transcoding from one bus format (HDMI) to another (USB); it's possible it's doing some sort of encoding/compression inside, and the receiving end may decompress/decode, and/or use as-is...hard to say. In either case, the CPU will have to do any final compression/encoding, and send it somewhere (network adapter, or storage device).

Also, anybody with a ~12 year old PC or newer that's not scraping the very bottom of the barrel can handle using a core to do the transcoding while gaming on the other core(s). The issue isn't likely gonna be processing or even memory. If anything, any network latency sensitive games are gonna punish you when your upload/stream fills up your upload queues in your PC, router, etc. I was doing faster than real-time transcoding into complicated video formats at 1080p back in the WinXP days...on mid-range hardware.
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Quote from KushConnoisseur :
Does this strip HDCP?
No it doesn't but you can use certain hdmi splitters to do that.
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Quote from pongagt :
No it doesn't but you can use certain hdmi splitters to do that.
I keep looking for one that does. But whenever I get it hooked up, they don't.
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CTRFK8
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we need 4k 240hz hdmi 2.2 and a faster interface for external

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Quote from partypooper32 :
Can someone explain what is the purpose of buying this when I can use the free software OBS studio?
This is only for getting the best possible picture quality 4k 60 fps for live streaming. Not necessary if full HD 60fps is sufficient, as it should be for most people.

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I have the HD60S. Rarely use for streaming but it is useful for capturing phone screen on OBS and taking screenshot of any app screen that has restrictions for doing so on the phone itself.

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