I spent the last couple days looking to upgrade my unit. Currently, 800 mp/s with 14 camera on i7-4770 in a USFF case and saving vids to NAS. I want to get away from the saving to NAS as I'm getting irritating (though not breaking) delays for UI3 alerts and UI3 live camera view delays. Never got these when I had a mid-tower local WD purple HD.
CPU usage hovers around 40-50%.
Pretty much set on going away from the ebay Optiplex's and doing my own build (I did build my last 5 gaming PC's so I'm comfortable with it).
Have my sights set on a i5-9600k for around the $200 mark. Has respectful "PassMark" benchmarks for it's pricing. Also, the
Blue Iris Update Helper shows this CPU to be AOK for reference examples in my 800 mp/s range and camera numbers. I like those Ripsaw RAM sticks listed above (I have little knowledge of RAM actually). I'll have to look for a mboard (again, little knowledge as I go off other folks recommendations mostly). But will look for one that has that XMP setting. Looks handy.
All components will go into a 2U rack mount server chassis. So gots to get PSU but that's easy.
Guess I can use my i7-4770 USFF for.... Home Assistant soon
Motherboards. Any specific mboard options to assist with IP Camera / Blue Iris relations?