Question / Help Thinking about re-purposing an old gaming rig

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RamboUnchained

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My old rig has a FX-4300 and 4GB of RAM. It also has a Sapphire 7750, but that doesn't matter. I was thinking about getting a PCIe capture card for it and using it as a dedicated stream machine. My current system is pretty beefy with a FX 8350, 8GB of 1600, and a 2GB Sapphire R9 270X. My current system streams fine, but I'd like to be able to play on high/max settings without taking frame hits while streaming and 720p @ 60FPS. Lowering settings works, but a big reason I game on PC is for the eye candy.

Would a FX 4300 and 4GB of DDR3 1600 be able to manage 720p @ 60FPS on medium?
 
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dodgepong

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Probably not on medium with that CPU. You might be able to do 720p60 on veryfast, but I have my doubts. I'm not really sure, to be honest, and the only real way to know for sure is to try it.
 
dodgepong

dodgepong

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No, a capture card does not do any extra work. It just captures the video for the computer to do all the work.
 
dodgepong

dodgepong

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Technically if you're only using the program that came with the capture device and not OBS, then the capture card might do some work. If you're talking about the Live Gamer HD, it has an onboard encoder that OBS cannot use, but even if OBS could use it, then a) you wouldn't be able to capture with the card and use the encoder at the same time, and b) the encoder is terrible terrible terrible terrible quality.

But if you want to use OBS to stream, then a capture card will do exactly zero "work".
 
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