Would my rig record/stream?

[ConBeDumb]

CPU: Intel Core I5 6500
GPU: NVIDIA Geforce 1070 TI
RAM: 8gb Ram (Dual channel)

I am probably going to want to record games like Overwatch, Minecraft, and possibly more. Would my rig be able to record or stream?

 

[shansmi]

sure but with it being an i5 and having only 8G of RAM it might lag a bit. Does it play those games with ease? i.e. no heat or 100% cpu/gpu issues?

 

[deFrisselle]

Sure, your encoding can be offloaded to the GPU with NVENC Though Shansmi is right, 8 Gb of RAM is rather tight to run a game and OBS
Only way to be sure is to test it out

 

[qhobbes]

When I stream (1 camera, some images and text) with OBS minimized, it uses about 250 MB of RAM. I can't imagine game capture uses a significant amount of RAM. Should be fine for recording. Use a single source scene collection to keep the RAM usage low. Disable the preview once you got everything setup.

When streaming, you may have more sources such as a cam, browser sources for stats, etc. These use additional RAM.