jlklein
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Hey folks,
Looking to replace my aging Latitude E6420 laptop for our rather simple at home family band livestreaming to FB and YT. Current laptop specs are 2nd Gen 2.4GHz i5 Dual Core CPU, 8GB (maxed out) DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM and nVidia NVS 4200M 512MB DDR3 Discrete Graphics.
We are currently running OBS at 720p on the laptop with video input from a Canon Vixia R600 via Amazon HDMI/USB2.0 adapter and audio via USB from our Soundcraft Signature MTK mixing console. Scenes are limited to camera video with some small image and http feed overlays, logo slides and a promo video slide (which is rather taxing on the current laptop). We can't record and stream simultaneously as it's just too much for this 2012 old -timer and I have to turn off most background services like Teamviewer and Skype to prevent lagging.
We'd like to be able to stay with a SFF for space considerations and be able to stream to multiple locations while recording (on occasion) and have smoother promo video playback. Looking around the better-computer-used-market, I found a local company who is upgrading their workstations and have a slew of HP CORE i7 Z220 SFF's for $95 each (no HDD, but I have those and OS's). Prior to our iMac upgrade at church, we used an HP Z400 mini-tower with Xeon Processor / 16GB RAM and it did well until it aged too much. According to HP's website, these Z220 SFF specs are:
I'm thinking this should do well, as my wife's newer Dell Latitude 5400 did really well with our streaming setup even on WiFi (forgot to turn it off after plugging in the network cable during testing lol). However, we don't want to tie her laptop down, and it had occasional issues recognizing our audio mixer. Her laptop has an 8th Gen 1.6 GHz i5 8265U, 8GB DDR4 SDRAM and onboard Intel UHD Graphics 620 with shared memory. So, newer processor and RAM than the HP Z220, but the Z220 has a higher MHz i7, much more RAM capacity and dedicated graphics card, so....?
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Jeff
Looking to replace my aging Latitude E6420 laptop for our rather simple at home family band livestreaming to FB and YT. Current laptop specs are 2nd Gen 2.4GHz i5 Dual Core CPU, 8GB (maxed out) DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM and nVidia NVS 4200M 512MB DDR3 Discrete Graphics.
We are currently running OBS at 720p on the laptop with video input from a Canon Vixia R600 via Amazon HDMI/USB2.0 adapter and audio via USB from our Soundcraft Signature MTK mixing console. Scenes are limited to camera video with some small image and http feed overlays, logo slides and a promo video slide (which is rather taxing on the current laptop). We can't record and stream simultaneously as it's just too much for this 2012 old -timer and I have to turn off most background services like Teamviewer and Skype to prevent lagging.
We'd like to be able to stay with a SFF for space considerations and be able to stream to multiple locations while recording (on occasion) and have smoother promo video playback. Looking around the better-computer-used-market, I found a local company who is upgrading their workstations and have a slew of HP CORE i7 Z220 SFF's for $95 each (no HDD, but I have those and OS's). Prior to our iMac upgrade at church, we used an HP Z400 mini-tower with Xeon Processor / 16GB RAM and it did well until it aged too much. According to HP's website, these Z220 SFF specs are:
- 3rd Gen Intel Core i7-3770 quad processor, 3.4/3.9 GHz, 77 W, 8MB cache, 1600 MHz, HT, Intel HD Graphics 4000
- NVIDIA NVS 310 graphics card in PCIe x16 slot (dual DisplayPort, and the Z220 also has onboard VGA/DP video).
- 32GB DDR3 1600 MHz capacity (only has 4GB now, but easy to upgrade)
- CPU Bus speed - DMI
- Integrated Intel 82579LM PCIe GbE Controller
- Intel Gigabit CT Desktop NIC
I'm thinking this should do well, as my wife's newer Dell Latitude 5400 did really well with our streaming setup even on WiFi (forgot to turn it off after plugging in the network cable during testing lol). However, we don't want to tie her laptop down, and it had occasional issues recognizing our audio mixer. Her laptop has an 8th Gen 1.6 GHz i5 8265U, 8GB DDR4 SDRAM and onboard Intel UHD Graphics 620 with shared memory. So, newer processor and RAM than the HP Z220, but the Z220 has a higher MHz i7, much more RAM capacity and dedicated graphics card, so....?
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Jeff