Dedicated stream machine question

[Morbidos]

I was planning on upgrading my FX-9590 to an 8700K build but then the oil turned all worthless and mah job went *pop*, now I'm contemplating building a dedicated stream machine to ease of the load for the old gal while i stream

I'we been asking uncle googs (google) for some advice but I'm not confident i have found all the answers I need...

Basically what i have is an old Dell OptiPlex 790  with 8 gb 1333 mhz ram and an SSD in so i was wondering if that, paired with a gtx470 (for a monitor) and a capture card or usb capture device would be able to do 1080/30 and possibly 1080/60?

I know the PSU needs to go but that I have a few lying around so i can jerry rig something that'll work.. I don't care how it will look... it's not supposed to be on cam anyway:)

[Crunchy Dragon]

That should work, Linus did a TechQuickie video on how streaming works a while back:

 

 

[manikyath]

just adding a capture card to that dell and setting x264 encoder to max out that cpu *should* be decent enough at least for 1080/30. wouldnt bother adding a gpu if all it needs to do is encode, as long as you have some form of graphics solution in there ofcourse .

[Morbidos]

10 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

That should work, Linus did a TechQuickie video on how streaming works a while back:

 

 

Thaks for the quick reply!

 

anny suggestions as to capture media? PCI-E or USB, been looking at the elgato HD60 pro, HD60S (and without s) but also Razer ripsaw

[Morbidos]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

just adding a capture card to that dell and setting x264 encoder to max out that cpu *should* be decent enough at least for 1080/30. wouldnt bother adding a gpu if all it needs to do is encode, as long as you have some form of graphics solution in there ofcourse .

the dell has integrated gpu, so I'm adding the 470 just to free that up too

 

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Morbidos said:

Thaks for the quick reply!

 

anny suggestions as to capture media? PCI-E or USB, been looking at the elgato HD60 pro, HD60S (and without s) but also Razer ripsaw

PCIe will be the fastest, it's really up to you. I haven't dipped into streaming very much, and what I have done was just very light research, so I'm not too experienced in this area.

[manikyath]

10 minutes ago, Morbidos said:

the dell has integrated gpu, so I'm adding the 470 just to free that up too

 

eh, not worth the effort, it may make a tiny bit of difference, but if its gonna involve PSU swapping.. just keep it as is.

[Morbidos]

11 minutes ago, manikyath said:

eh, not worth the effort, it may make a tiny bit of difference, but if its gonna involve PSU swapping.. just keep it as is.

it really is no effort for me to swap a psu, i have 5 or 6 on the shelf so no worries and as i said i dont really care about the look but I'll test it with the integrated first to check but again the psu's in these are tiny little nobrand's so if it's acting up ill swap:) thanks for the reply tho;)