Avermedia live gamer 4k gc573 review in Spanish (full review)

The Avermedia Live Gamer 4K GC573 is one of the best and most powerful video capturers currently available on the market. Capturing and streaming is the order of the day and every time you search, not only play at the highest quality and resolution possible, but transmit that same feeling to others, without suffering large drops in performance. For this reason, as indicated by the name of the grabber itself, we will have the possibility of capturing at a maximum resolution of 4K at 60 fps and being able to capture the widest range offered by HDR technology with high dynamic range. We therefore have a capturer that looks very good and whose analysis is worth it.

Technical characteristics Avermedia Live Gamer 4K GC573

Unboxing

The design of the Avermedia Live Gamer 4K GC573 bears a great resemblance to that of the Live Gamer Ultra model, that means that it has two packaging boxes, an external one with a front-page photograph of the grabber and behind the different features in different languages.

Inside, there is another black box, where we will find the grabber and the other accessories, very well protected by a foam rubber padding. In total we will find:

The Avermedia Live Gamer 4K GC573. HDMI 2.0 Cable. Quick Guide. Key Card for Cyberlink PowerDirector 15.

Design

The Avermedia Live Gamer 4K GC573 being an internal grabber, it has a great similarity with other expansion cards. This is characterized by having on the upper plate a network of triangles that gives it both a good way to cool and extra showiness. Much of the side edge, as is customary lately, an RGB light bar has been added which changes color. This color variation can be modified from software so that it changes in different ways: Colorful, Color cycle and Dreamer.

The connection to the motherboard is made through a PCI Express x4 slot. Just insert the grabber, without connecting any extra cables.

On the deck that faces the outside we will only find two HDMI ports: one input, from the console or external device; and another output, to the monitor or television.

Installation

The installation of the Avermedia Live Gamer 4K GC573 is quite simple as we have previously commented. Once correctly inserted into your PCI-E x4 slot and connected the two HDMI cables to their respective devices, it will be necessary and practically mandatory, go to the manufacturer's website to download the latest software and firmware for the capture device. If the installation of these drivers is not carried out, it is very possible that the capture device will not work for us. Once the PC is restarted, we can start capturing video.

software

When updating the card, the proprietary program Avermedia: RECentral will be installed in its version 4. This program will allow us to both capture and transmit video.

To capture videos and save them on the PC, we can choose between several profiles already created by default or create one ourselves in which to customize both the codec to use (NVIDIA, QSV, H.264), as well as the format, resolution, refresh rate, bit rate in video and audio, and keyframes. We can do something similar with streaming or multi-streaming if we select several streaming channels.

In addition, we will have the possibility of capturing or retransmitting only the game, or using the Multi-windows function, to add a window via pip to emit the image of a webcam or simply add a still image.

Finally, the application is subdivided into three tabs: the main one to capture and transmit, a second one to access previously captured videos, and a third tab that takes us to the settings of the program and those of the Avermedia Live Gamer 4K GC573.

These latest settings related to the grabber are mainly for configuring RGB lighting, turning HDCP (Digital Content Protection) detection on or off and performing a performance test.

Sometimes HDCP detection can come in handy, but in the case of the PS4, for example, it will be necessary to previously enter the console settings to disable this protection.

There are some details to keep in mind, for example that the capture with the H.265 codec is only compatible with RECentral 4 and not with other software. Additionally, LPCM 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound transmission is supported.

Minimum and recommended requirements

Before buying the capture machine, it is necessary to take into account some requirements if you want to take advantage of it and take advantage of it properly. Therefore, in addition to needing 64-bit Windows 10, it is also necessary to take into account the following requirements:

To capture 4K at 60fps HDR or 1080p at 240fps it is recommended:

An Intel Core i5-6xxx or better together with an NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060 or better and 8 GB of Dual-Channel RAM memory, while in notebooks an i7-7700HQ or better is recommended along with an NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1050 Ti or better and 8 GB of Dual-Channel RAM memory.

If we want to capture 1080p video at 60 fps we will need:

Minimum an Intel Core i5-3330 or higher, although the company recommends an i7-3770. To these requirements we must add a minimum of an NVIDIA Geforce GTX 650 or an AMD Radeon R7 250X or higher and 4 or 8 GB of RAM. In notebooks, an i7-4810MQ is recommended together with the NVIDIA geforce GTX 870M or higher and 4 or 8 GB of RAM.

performance

It is well known at this point in the analysis, that the Avermedia Live Gamer 4K GC573 can capture maximum 4K at 60fps and HDR, but along the way we will also have the opportunity to capture other lower resolutions at the cost of fps. Therefore, we can also capture at 1080p and 240 fps or at 1440p and 120 fps maximum. That gives us a wide range of options to choose from. Obviously, it is not always capturing only games of games, sometimes a lower resolution can come in handy to simply capture our screen while doing another activity or doing a tutorial.

The performance offered by the Avermedia Live Gamer 4K GC573 is excellent in every respect. In our tests we have observed how the image quality displayed on television is maintained in the capture, including the improved black and white that HDR technology offers. The grabber manages to maintain the type, and does not show flaws or lags during the capture or transmission, on the contrary, the video transmission is stable and fluid. The same is not the case with sound, at least in 4K. We have noticed during our tests that during the capture of 4K content the sound had some small micro-cut, luckily, when playing the captured content, the sound was heard perfectly without any micro-cut.

Additional features

Along with the Avermedia Live Gamer 4K GC573 , a key to download Cyberlink PowerDirector 15 for free is included. A simple video editor that is valued at around € 50 and can come in handy in certain cases, if Adobe Premiere is not previously available. These things never hurt and are appreciated.

Final words of the Avermedia Live Gamer 4K GC573

There are those who may be scared to know the price of the Avermedia Live Gamer 4K GC573, which is around € 285, but if you contrast that price with that necessary in PC hardware to achieve the same performance, you soon realize that by itself This small card alone does a great job when it comes to video capture and streaming.

With the increasing number of streamers and streaming, the Avermedia Live Gamer 4K GC573 is a card to consider, whether for the average user or for professionals.

After our tests, we can safely say that for those demanding in terms of capturing quality or the highest quality video transmission possible today, they can rest easy if they are done with this card, since it performs at a high level and performs in an excellent way.

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
+ CAPTURE AND TRANSMIT TO 4K 60 FPS HDR.	- SOME FUNCTIONS ARE ONLY EXCLUSIVE TO RECENTRAL 4.
+ CAPTURE AND TRANSMISSION WORK FLUIDLY.	- CANNOT BE CAPTURED DIRECTLY IN AN EXTERNAL MEDIA.
+ INCLUDES POWERDIRECTOR 15 FREE OF CHARGE.	ONLY WORKS WITH WINDOWS.
+ GOOD PRICE FOR THE WORK YOU DO.