Question PC for streaming and recording (Not Gaming)

[MicroT]

Hi everyone,

I currently stream in 1080p to facebook and youtube whilst recording 1080p locally to my personal gaming laptop.

I want to get a PC that is dedicated to this (Event streaming and recording, not gaming). Setup uses a single Mirrorless sony camera and sound from a allen & heath mixer

I've done research and CPU encoding seems to be preferable so I'm looking at older Xeons like the E5-2697v3 14 core 28 thread processor and 64GB Ram. Is this capable of doing all of the above or will I need to get a decent graphics card other than the included Quadro 4000?

On a budget, pc mentioned is a Dell Precision T5810 at £320

Thanks

 

[QwerkyPengwen]

that's more than you need specs wise I would think for x264 encoding on slow with OBS. The Quadro is not that useful if not using it for anything and integrated would/should be enough, but in the event that you have a hardcore visual setup with overlays that are using hardware acceleration then perhaps keep the quadro in there for that stuff but you still do all the encoding with the CPU.

you can use whatever you currently use for the camera capture, and you can use NDI to capture and send gameplay over to the second PC. This is only doable if both computers are hard wired into your router with ethernet.
Otherwise just get another capture card and duplicate desktop on the laptop and output to the capture card.

 

[MicroT]

that's more than you need specs wise I would think for x264 encoding on slow with OBS. The Quadro is not that useful if not using it for anything and integrated would/should be enough, but in the event that you have a hardcore visual setup with overlays that are using hardware acceleration then perhaps keep the quadro in there for that stuff but you still do all the encoding with the CPU.

you can use whatever you currently use for the camera capture, and you can use NDI to capture and send gameplay over to the second PC. This is only doable if both computers are hard wired into your router with ethernet.
Otherwise just get another capture card and duplicate desktop on the laptop and output to the capture card.

Thank you, that was very helpful