Streaming W/ old hardware?

[FrigidNinja]

Just saw a rig on craigslist, i'm looking for a dedicated streaming machine. I'd like to stream at 1080p 60fps, my gaming rig can handle games at those settings but I cant stream settings that high at the same time.

The rig is a Dell Precision 690 W/ dual xeons. Quad cores clocked at 2.66ghz (not sure if 4 physical cores or digital 2 physical)

It has 16 GB of DDR2 memory

Hes only asking $100 for it, and im willing to gamble a little.

I just want to know if the multiple cores will make up for the lack of speed.

Will this rig theoretically be able to stream W/ OBS at 1080-60?

I can add a graphics card if need be.

[FloRolf]

Streaming Tetris maybe, but not much more. You want to look at newer chips with at least 4c/8t or better more. 

[This_guy1998]

6 minutes ago, FrigidNinja said:

Just saw a rig on craigslist, i'm looking for a dedicated streaming machine. I'd like to stream at 1080p 60fps, my gaming rig can handle games at those settings but I cant stream settings that high at the same time.

The rig is a Dell Precision 690 W/ dual xeons. Quad cores clocked at 2.66ghz (not sure if 4 physical cores or digital 2 physical)

It has 16 GB of DDR2 memory

Hes only asking $100 for it, and im willing to gamble a little.

I just want to know if the multiple cores will make up for the lack of speed.

Will this rig theoretically be able to stream W/ OBS at 1080-60?

I can add a graphics card if need be.

Watch this video. They have good tips.

[mariushm]

Those Xeons are quad core, but they're weak quad cores.  They would do 1080p 60fps if you tweak the encoder (preset ultra fast, disable CABAC etc etc) but it's a lousy buy.. and the software encoders don't like working with 2 separate processors (it's slower to transfer data between physical processors compared to using a bunch of cores on a single processor)

 

Basically, a single Ryzen 3 1200 will be about 10% faster than 2 x X5355 ( quad 2.66 Ghz) 

 

I'm not sure it's worth it.  You can get a Ryzen 3 2200g (99$) in around 2 weeks and you get integrated graphics with hardware encoder, add 40-50$ for motherboard add 40-50$ for psu and case and 40$ for memory and maybe 20-30$ for a hdd (if you can't reuse something you have around)  and you have a system for 200-250$

 

 

 

[FrigidNinja]

13 minutes ago, This_guy1998 said:

Watch this video. They have good tips.

that helps, thank you

[This_guy1998]

Just now, FrigidNinja said:

that helps, thank you

Welcome, that PC you are looking at, what Xeons are in it? How many cores and clock speeds are they.