Question Capture card

[Ch3m R3d]

I was wondering if I needed a Graphics card for my PC if I was going to use an elgato capture card, run from my xbox to my PC. The PC is actually a laptop with i5 and 6gb ram but no graphics card

 

[popatim]

depends ion what you are doing with the capture.
Storing it for later - no extra GPU needed.
Streaming it - the built in Intel h.264 encoder works well with Elgato but is not the best of quality but since you are using a laptop then you have little choice. Software encoding will make a big hit on the CPU so if that is what you are looking for then which CPU do you have?

 

[Ch3m R3d]

CPU
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5200U CPU @ 2.20GHz
Base speed: 2.19 GHz
Sockets: 1
Cores: 2
Logical processors: 4
Virtualization: Disabled
Hyper-V support: Yes
L1 cache: 128 KB
L2 cache: 512 KB
L3 cache: 3.0 MB
Utilization 51%
Speed 2.17 GHz
Up time 2:00:39:16
Processes 169
Threads 2556
Handles 113712
My data for this Tab

 

[Ch3m R3d]

I just want to make sure that I dont need a graphics card even though amazon says I do. Ill be taking the videos and running them through an Editor when they are saved, but my laptop has no trouble with that anyways

 

[Ch3m R3d]

depends ion what you are doing with the capture.
Storing it for later - no extra GPU needed.
Streaming it - the built in Intel h.264 encoder works well with Elgato but is not the best of quality but since you are using a laptop then you have little choice. Software encoding will make a big hit on the CPU so if that is what you are looking for then which CPU do you have?

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5200U CPU @ 2.20GHz
Base speed: 2.19 GHz
Sockets: 1
Cores: 2
Logical processors: 4
Virtualization: Disabled
Hyper-V support: Yes
L1 cache: 128 KB
L2 cache: 512 KB
L3 cache: 3.0 MB
Utilization 51%
Speed 2.17 GHz
Up time 2:00:39:16
Processes 169
Threads 2556
Handles 113712
My data for this Tab

I just want to make sure that I dont need a graphics card even though amazon says I do. Ill be taking the videos and running them through an Editor when they are saved, but my laptop has no trouble with that anyways

 

[Ch3m R3d]

Ok I found my GPU it has Intel HD graphics 5500