Are my specs good enough for recording gameplay?

[Akanuts]

Hello :) I don't know much about PC's to be blunt, so can someone tell me if this would be good enough to record games like Valorant at 1080p with 60fps? Thank you in advance :)
Specs:
CPU: Intel I7-2600K
GPU: GTX 1060 3GB
RAM: 16GB DDR3
Motherboard: Z77-DS3H
Windows 10
Please let me know if you need any other information :)

 

[koala]

Just install OBS, run Tools->Auto configuration wizard and see what the results are. Don't manually configure anything within OBS, except adding your game as game source, of course.
If you use nvenc as encoder (this is a choice the wizard will give you, as far as I remember), it might be possible to do what you want, but that's around the limit of what the hardware can achieve. 30 fps will probably work, but 60 fps might be an issue.

 

[Akanuts]

Just install OBS, run Tools->Auto configuration wizard and see what the results are. Don't manually configure anything within OBS, except adding your game as game source, of course.
If you use nvenc as encoder (this is a choice the wizard will give you, as far as I remember), it might be possible to do what you want, but that's around the limit of what the hardware can achieve. 30 fps will probably work, but 60 fps might be an issue.

Thank you very much :) Do you have any idea what should be upgraded to reach 60fps?

 

[koala]

Everything. It's an obsolete hardware, almost 10 years old. Every upgrade of this will be a waste of money, because the same money could be invested in state of the art hardware. For the same money, you will get more performance and value than investing in something old.

 

[Akanuts]

Everything. It's an obsolete hardware, almost 10 years old. Every upgrade of this will be a waste of money, because the same money could be invested in state of the art hardware. For the same money, you will get more performance and value than investing in something old.

I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean. How would it be a waste of mony to upgrade my computer?

 

[koala]

Upgrading some component in your computer is a waste of money, because the computer is too old and cannot properly support current (upgraded) hardware. So I propose to get a whole new computer. The value for your money will be higher. If you invest 100 or 200 Euro for upgrading some component, that 200 Euro can better be saved and invested into a complete new computer. And if you invest less than that money in upgrading your computer, there will not be much performance improvement.

Current computers in the i7 class have about 4 times the CPU power and current GPUs in the GTX 1060 class have double the GPU power. If you buy some upgrade, you will not get that performance improvement that is worth the money, because you cannot buy current CPUs (need other mainboard+RAM) or GPUs (need other mainboard to support current pci-express speed to get full GPU speed).

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

Koala provided a good answer

the shorter version - because the technology is so old (CPU released in Jan 2011, the motherboard is PCIe v2.0,) in your current computer, you will get a better result (value, performance, etc) buying a newer computer (even if used) vs trying to upgrade.

Literally, for real-time video encoding, the only item of value in that old computer _might_ be the case (and even then probably not compatible with modern motherboards).... so, your money will be better spent on a replacement vs an upgrade (unless you can get much newer motherboard, power supply, CPU, RAM, and a SSD for *next to free* ...). Mind you, my primary PC with 24GBs of RAM, and multiple SSDS, is of a similar age and works fine for email, web, etc (including running multiple Win10 VMs at same time) so I'm not saying your ancient PC isn't viable, but not for modern resolution real-time video encoding.