Question / Help Will this laptop work with obs ?

[Jake Morton]

I know very little about what specs are needed to run obs, due to my upload speed I can only stream at 480p (maybe 720 at a push) so don't need it to be able to do 1080

http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/...en_US&jumpid=reg_r1002_uken_c-001_title_r0002

will this run obs ? thanks

 

[NicOnAcid]

I tried it once with this laptop, but with 3GB of Ram instead 1.:
http://h20566.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/...Result&docId=emr_na-c03150477&docLocale=de_DE

Bad idea ;) It wont work. And i only connected 1 Webcam and an Overlay to OBS with this maschine.

 

[Jake Morton]

I tried it once with this laptop, but with 3GB of Ram instead 1.:
http://h20566.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/...Result&docId=emr_na-c03150477&docLocale=de_DE

Bad idea ;) It wont work. And i only connected 1 Webcam and an Overlay to OBS with this maschine.

intel normally do better than amd though

 

[NicOnAcid]

yeah, thats right. But 1.86 Ghz on 2 Cores are not enough I think.

To run OBS: Okay. But to Stream and maybe Gaming on the same Time not.

 

[Jake Morton]

sorry, forgot to say I don't game on pc, I want to stream ps4 footage so laptop just being used for the stream

 

[Jake Morton]

so will this work ?

 

[FerretBomb]

The CPU is weak. Google to see if that GPU supports the DX10 spec.
In general though, laptops are a bad choice for any processing-intensive workload, like streaming. They aren't upgradable aside from RAM/HDD, have a small thermal envelope, use worse parts.

As that has a Turion in it, if you're looking to buy a laptop to stream, I definitely wouldn't go with that one at the very least.

 

[Jake Morton]

The CPU is weak. Google to see if that GPU supports the DX10 spec.
In general though, laptops are a bad choice for any processing-intensive workload, like streaming. They aren't upgradable aside from RAM/HDD, have a small thermal envelope, use worse parts.

As that has a Turion in it, if you're looking to buy a laptop to stream, I definitely wouldn't go with that one at the very least.

that's the other guys laptop, mines the top link

 

[Harold]

I'm going to go with a "Your link is no better"

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core2+Duo+SL9400+@+1.86GHz&id=964

 

[Jake Morton]

just used obs estimator and for my setup it just said downscale to 480p (use that anyway because of poor upload) so looks like it will work

 

[Harold]

I make no promises.

 

[WilliamBarrows]

yeah, thats right. But 1.86 Ghz on 2 Cores are not enough I think.

To run OBS: Okay. But to Stream and maybe Gaming on the same Time not.

I have a 3.16Ghz dual core on which I sometimes record + stream while one of the processors is almost completely tapped out by my game. So I think a 1.86Ghz dual core processor should be able to handle just OBS, for streaming at a low bitrate it won't look too great though. The biggest issue is overheating, but that can be circumvented by making sure the fan is on a flat surface that doesn't get sucked in.

If this laptop is the only option you have, it will work. If you were going to buy it to stream, then don't because it's extremely borderline for streaming.

Now, to your setup: On a low-end machine, downscaling is a horrible idea. Make your setup in 480p (or 360p even) and stream that directly without scaling. FPS should be 20 or 30, bitrate as much as your internet can handle (but not above 2000). Use Profile: High, the slowest CPU preset the laptop can handle (probably either superfast or ultrafast), and the following x264 parameters: tune=film rc-lookahead=10

Oh, and get Chatty so you don't need to have your browser open while you stream.

 

[FerretBomb]

It's a Core2Duo. Are they still actually selling those?

Again, if you're looking to buy a laptop to stream, DON'T. And if you ignore that, at least get one with a CPU that isn't a fossil. At this point that thing is an email/facebook machine for the grandparents.