I5 2400 ONLY streaming

[MatYou]

I was planing to buy a second pc for streaming and an elgato capture card...

But will an old i5 2400 be enough just for streaming and thats it... I dont want my main gaming pc to be affected by cpu useage so i decided to do it like this but i am not shure if it is gonna be enough considering an old sandy bridge arch. is almost 7 y old... BTW i am on a budget so pls dont say stuff like buy ryzen 5 1600 or i7 8700k... even an i7 2600 is out of my budget.... if you have a cheap CPU that can handle it better fell free to say... any suggestion will help...so to say it again it will only stream and nothing else... no other cpu intens apps will be running...

[3 Lions]

It'll struggle for sure.

[MatYou]

Do you mean it will be barely enough or it wont be enough

[3 Lions]

2 minutes ago, MatYou said:

Do you mean it will be barely enough or it wont be enough

I don't think you'll be streaming games with it.

[vascobrissos14]

If you have 2 machines (1 to play and 1 to stream), I think you should give a try after watching some youtube videos.

I made some research some time ago and remember that you don't need a high end system to JUST STREAM so, like I said, do your research on youtube and try it. 

Should work though.

[DarkSwordsman]

I currently have an i7-2600 with a GTX 650 Ti. It works okay, but even pushing out a 720p60fps stream at 3000 Kbps, it starts to climb to around 60% CPU usage with just the cup. Kappa Gen totally rips it to shreds. To note: OBS seems to only use 4 threads, not 8, so it seems to favor cores.

I plan to get a system with a 7820x and 1080 Ti, though I have been considering the 12 core 1920x simply because OBS seems to prefer more cores.

Edit: Though, it seems that you need to tell OBS to use more threads if you have it...? https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/7s4fny/psa_obs_may_need_additional_setup_if_using_over/