Streaming laptop advice

My husband has been wanting to stream for awhile and I have been planning to surprise him with a laptop (he has basically everything else) but price has been an issue. Well I recently won a laptop but I’m not sure if it’ll even work for “basic” streaming or like the bare minimum until we can upgrade. It’s an intel i3, but has 512 GB SSD and 12 GB ram. I’m am pretty clueless what or how to interpret this. I’ve heard i5 is the bare minimum but would i3 work for absolute beginners? Like to get started. He already has another monitor and webcam etc. I just didn’t wanna surprise him if it won’t work at all. I hope this makes sense! Like I said I don’t know much about this. Thanks! Also it’s an HP if that makes a difference? I’m not sure what he will be streaming either, as I’ve heard that plays a factor as well. Thanks again!