Question / Help will this PC handle streaming?

[Tei]

Hi,

ATM I have with 'old' laptop (Alienware m17x-R2) that is not capable of playing and streaming quality stream at the same time.

I have possibility to get PC, but not any recent or top shelf components.
As I do not have too much knowledge about recent PC components (last PC I built was 10 years ago),

could anybody tell me if this will be enough power to play (med-high settings) and stream (good quality) games from this machine:

Intel Core i5-3470 3.2Ghz (3.6GHz Turbo) 4 CPU, 6MB Cache
micro tower case (no detail of motherboard, I wonder if ventilation would be sufficient)
8GB 5 DDR3 (2x 4GB) 1333Mhz
1TB 7200RPM SATA 6 hard drive (I will add SSD)
GeForce GT 620 1GB graphics
Windows 8 64Bit

 

[Krazy]

Your GPU will be a serious limiting factor. You'll want at the very least a 650 ti, though a 660/670 would be loads better if you can manage it.

 

[Tei]

Your GPU will be a serious limiting factor. You'll want at the very least a 650 ti, though a 660/670 would be loads better if you can manage it.

If I understand correctly, that this will impact only quality of video settings in-game, but will not have an impact on stream quality (other than poor input quality).
Am I right?

Also do you think that CPU will handle playing and streaming with no problem?

As I can have that system for pennies, maybe some day I could buy Video Card and use it as streaming box only?

 

[alpinlol]

well as already said the gpu is complete dogshit .

and it will also limit your streaming capability

also the prices from ivy to haswell are literally within a 5-10 bucks difference if even most of them are the same



*edit just read your 2nd post. take the system its capable of streaming at least 720@30 in probably all games without the problem on the cpu side but really invest some money asap for a new gpu because you wont get much working with playing and streaming with an gt 620

 

[dodgepong]

If I understand correctly, that this will impact only quality of video settings in-game, but will not have an impact on stream quality (other than poor input quality).
Am I right?

No. The GPU is also used by OBS to do capturing, compositing, and scaling, which can run slowly on lower-quality cards. It will affect the speed at which you can feed frames into the encoder.

 

[Tei]

Thanks a lot guys for your thoughts!

Unfortunately GT 620 and GTX 660+ have different dimensions and power needs, so probably will be not much I could do in this case (literally) but will try my best. Since I get this machine almost for free, I'll look into getting new PSU and case if needed to host better GPU.

Thanks again, enjoy your day.

 

[alpinlol]

just look up a 660 or 660ti or actually a 760 from asus they got the small cards which literally fit in all cases and for psu its hard to tell ... you probably need a new psu but corsair offers good and cheap ones