Old PC Or Just Dead?

[DisconnectedYT]

So ive had some of the parts in my pc since around 2013 and it seems very slow at gaming while streaming with OBS, below is each part with a description about what seems wrong with each part.

 

CPU: Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.8Ghz

Runs well while not streaming but gets horrible stuttering when streaming, CPU sits at around 80% when streaming most games and on BF1 it sits at 100% usage

 

Ram: 16GB 1600Mhz Team Dark

Haven't had any problems yet

 

GPU: AMD RX480 8GB Refrence

Runs at 88c when gaming, could this be an problem?

 

HDD: Samsung 7200RPM 2TB

Seems to jump between 2MB/s and 30MB/s Write speed, dont know if this is a problem or not?

[themctipers]

CPU bottleneck

88c is too hot for me personally, but that is a reference card, only thing you can do to fix it is a more aggressive fanspeed curve 

[DisconnectedYT]

4 minutes ago, themctipers said:

CPU bottleneck

88c is too hot for me personally, but that is a reference card, only thing you can do to fix it is a more aggressive fanspeed curve 

Really? I cant believe how fast CPU's go obsolete, im gonna try Streamlabs OBS, it uses 30% less CPU.

[themctipers]

1 minute ago, DisconnectedYT said:

Really? I cant believe how fast CPU's go obsolete, im gonna try Streamlabs OBS, it uses 30% less CPU.

no

 

not obsolete

haswell is not obsolete, 

you're using the wrong word. slow for streaming, yes, maybe slow for gaming, yes, but it still is usable. 

 

streaming likes lots of cores and if not, high clockspeed. you have a xeon running at 3.4-3.8GHz with only 4c8t. 

my 3770k probably has better multicore, even though it is one generation behind, at 4.1GHz

haswell is nowhere near dead right now, as long as it is clocked higher than stock. 

[DisconnectedYT]

1 minute ago, themctipers said:

no

 

not obsolete

haswell is not obsolete, 

you're using the wrong word. slow for streaming, yes, maybe slow for gaming, yes, but it still is usable. 

 

streaming likes lots of cores and if not, high clockspeed. you have a xeon running at 3.4-3.8GHz with only 4c8t. 

my 3770k probably has better multicore, even though it is one generation behind, at 4.1GHz

haswell is nowhere near dead right now, as long as it is clocked higher than stock. 

for gaming i think its fine and for rendering my Xeon is great but i dont get why streaming is such a strain on it when my laptops 6200U can stream better

[themctipers]

Just now, DisconnectedYT said:

for gaming i think its fine and for rendering my Xeon is great but i dont get why streaming is such a strain on it when my laptops 6200U can stream better

i forgot which one was BF1 but iirc it likes CPU a lot

the 6200u is probably using quicksync, which.. uses the iGPU to do most of the encoding

[CDHoward]

Xeons are just not designed for gaming.