Gaming on Dell OEM HD 7570 Part One (It's Not Bad)
0It's been over a year since my last gameplay video of this lovely slow unfun old Lenovo SFF office PC. This time though I managed to get a low-profile graphics card although it was tough buying even a used card this year without overspending on a GPU. Sadly it's not a low-profile GTX 1050 or even a low-profile GT 1030 GDDR5 but it's rather a cheap $50 Canadian Dollar Dell OEM model of an AMD Radeon HD 7570 which performs similar to a HD 7470.
Gaming at 1080p with this thing was a no go in terms of decent performance (at least games newer than 2010) so at 1680 x 1050 it performed way better. However recording is a different story. OBS Studio for some reason had poor recording performance mainly because the GPU doesn't support hardware encoding and the CPU is too weak to maintain stable frame-rate in the video output after recording due to a bottleneck. DxTory is a pain to set-up and more of a pain to even use and sadly FRAPS seems to be the only optimal solution albeit at lower resolution.
Editing was more or less the same thing with Shotcut being a nightmare to work on. So I had to use the former Windows Live Essentials 2012 version of Windows Movie Maker and I was surprised at how easy it was to use plus the quality wasn't that bad.
Regardless the GPU improved a lot of performance even on older games that struggled with the i3-3220's integrated graphics and adding in more RAM helped the performance even more. I had a lot of fun with this thing so time will tell rather or not the system will retain decent to use even outside of gaming.
Recorded with FRAPS (resolution at 720p for maximum performance during recording)
Edited with Windows Live Movie Maker (Yep. That Windows Movie Maker)
Converted and Compressed with Handbrake (compressed FRAPS footage prior to editing)
More PC specs/info here:
https://pastebin.com/a5UajV6j
My setup and equipment info here:
https://pastebin.com/ei836zyV
My current computer specs
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Intel Core i7-4770
Asus H81M-A
Crucial 16GB DDR3 RAM
Sapphire Nitro Radeon RX 480 4GB GDDR5
HP Workstation 1TB SSD
Sandisk SSD 120GB
Windows 10 Enterprise 1809 LTSC 64-bit
Seasonic s12ii 520w Bronze
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