Question / Help i7 960 streaming PC with capture card?

[bntlol]

Hi!

I recently got my hands on a Avermedia Live Gamer HD and i want to put it to use.
First of all, i can't connect it to my gaming PC's mobo since i dont have any room for it (mITX mobo, z77e-ITX) so it wont fit there.
Second, im thinking about getting a dedicated streaming PC to run OBS on. The PC i can get really cheap is 8GB ram, Intel i7 960 and HD 7950, we're talking a $200 PC here, its not great, but will it be able to encode at say, fast preset without any issues?

And as far as the capture card goes, if i understand correctly, i'm going to put the capture card in the STREAMING pc and not my gaming PC, and connect them both through a HDMI cable?

Thank you for your help! :)

 

[Boildown]

Some people have had good results with CPUs like that, especially when well overclocked. Its a quad-core with hyperthreading, so even though its old, it should be usable. I can't really say what preset you'll be able to achieve on it.

Yeah, you'd connect an HDMI cable. Some people use an HDMI splitter but I set my GPU to duplicate its screen on a second output. First output goes to my monitor, second goes to my video capture card.

 

[bntlol]

Some people have had good results with CPUs like that, especially when well overclocked. Its a quad-core with hyperthreading, so even though its old, it should be usable. I can't really say what preset you'll be able to achieve on it.

Yeah, you'd connect an HDMI cable. Some people use an HDMI splitter but I set my GPU to duplicate its screen on a second output. First output goes to my monitor, second goes to my video capture card.

Thank you for this! I was able to put out a stream with 720p45FPS @3500bitrate with faster preset, it ended up looking pretty damn good when playing CS:GO even though i dont have partnership. Bye bye blurs :D