Customer Ratings & Reviews

Son uses for his gaming to stream. Says it works great

This is a great capture card and honestly I don't have much to complain about, but read on to see if it fits your needs. The Elgato 4K X External Capture card is designed to capture gameplay with even the most bandwidth-intensive graphics settings. That means you can enable and capture gameplay with variable refresh rate (VRR), HDR10, and 4k resolution and I can say it does this well. In my testing, I captured everything from the easy Super Mario 64 to the much more demanding Jedi Survivor. All looked phenomenal and smooth. I tried Mario to see how it handled gameplay that was connected via an adapter and in low res and a different aspect ratio. Worked great. Next I did Jedi Survivor as that enabled me to test 4k60 with HDR and VRR and my video came out looking like it did on my 4k HDR TV. Very happy. I don't mean to make this a super brief review, but this does what it's advertised to do and does it well. It's very much plug and play. The software to install on your PC is easy to use and straightforward with one exception. I was having trouble getting my first few recordings to show up where the software said they were saved. There's an option to change what does the video encoding and the options were my PC graphics card, which being a non-gaming PC is pretty weak, and the internal software one. Changing to Elgato's internal solution ended up working and now I have no issues. So the only thing I would say you should ask yourself when questioning if this is the right card is what are you doing with it? Uploading captures to YouTube? Probably worth it as they support 4K and HDR. Streaming to Twitch? You could probably get by with a lesser card due to their stream compression. To conclude...it's great. Get it if you need one and need the resolution and high frame rate and HDR recording. Just check the encoding setting if it doesn't seem to be working right.

The Elgato 4K X is a game capture card that truly excels in performance and versatility. Whether you’re a streamer, content creator, or simply a passionate gamer, this compact powerhouse delivers where it matters most. The Elgato 4K X is a must-have for serious content creators and gamers alike. It’s a game changer that elevates your streaming and recording to the next level. Don’t compromise—choose the 4K X for unparalleled performance!

Works perfectly for PS5. Supports all performance and visual features of the PS5. Only down side is that when the PS5 does it usual switch to 120HZ and your monitor losses that signal for that short time when starting a game. I have noticed a significant longer wait before my monitor receives the signal again. But I personally don’t mind.

Solid for an external capture device if you dont have the pci slots for an internal

No issues! We had to replace an old one and this one works fine.

Good product .....................................

So let me say this gamecapture card is fine in regards to the recording. It can do 4k @144hrz with the proper monitors. The only issue i am currently having is the capture card audio has a cracking sound. I have tried other methods to correctly but nothing has worked. I am not sure if the company needs to do an update to correct or if this is just the card by default. I will be switching back to my elgato 4k pro as i prefer the audio to be perfect.

Easy to setup. Greadt quality content. Just make sure ylu have a usb port that suppots 10gbps

It crashed my MacBook, now it doesn’t work at all and I have to get it fixed

I tried everything but the sound problem is still there cant go through the bad sound

So right out of the box this piece of crap doesn't pass through the 4k signal without going totally crazy and losing signal over and over again. After about 5 minutes the capture function then stops working.