Well I finally decided. I got a system with an i5 6500T and 8gb of ram. It runs great so far with blue iris 5. Usually right at 20 or so watts and 23% CPU. That's (9)1080 cameras. My old 4000t something was near 60 watts and 43 to 100 percent on the cpu.
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I do agree blue iris is my go to. I run 2 servers with blue iris for I dont even know how long. I was just looking at different options and wondering capabilities. It wasn't about making my $$$ back. It was about the circuit the machine has to run on. Think rural.
You can make a low power BI machine that would be fine in most cases. I just happen to be on a very strict power circuit. I'm weighing every option. I'll probably end up upgrading my BI box in the end but want to know the capability of the nvr box.
Ok I'm thinking of moving from blue iris to a hikvision nvr. I'm familiar with blue iris but have no experience with a hickvision nvr. I have 4 ptz's I want them all to move to spacific preset via an alarm input on the nvr. I would think every nvr would have this capability. Just dont want to...