Will this older PC cut it for streaming?

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Hello everyone! So, I have my old PC I used to game on just sitting in the closet collecting dust. I would like to turn it into a dedicated streaming PC for twitch. The specs of it used to be pretty good, but they are pretty mediocre now a days. It's a quad core AMD Phenom 9500, 3GB of RAM, an Nividia 9600 GSO graphics card, 200GB of Storage, and Windows Vista 64 bit. It's also a HP pre-built system so I can't overclock, but I don't think I'd need too. I'd like to throw a capture card in it, maybe more RAM if needed, and load it up with some streaming software and make my own twitch channel. The reason I want to use my old PC instead of my new PC is because I don't like the performance hit I get when I stream and game at the same time. I figuered my old PC should have pleanty of horse power to handle streaming. But I would like a second opinion and some suggestions on what I could upgrade to maybe improve the qualtiy of my streams and what not. I also would like some recommendations of a nice capture card. The Avermedia HD seems pretty solid but it's rather expensive and if there's another cheaper but still quality option, let me know!

Thanks everyone!

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streaming is more on the cpu load more than anything, it should be fine with obs preset to supperfast with a bitrate of about 3k.

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Thank you! Do you think I'll be able to produce a quality stream with those presets?

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depends on what rez you want to stream with, that in mind 720p would be about the max that could do with this preset

 

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i'd say that 720p, 30fps, 2500kbps would be about the best you can hope for with that system.

so, not bad, but not really good, either...