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(16) 3MP Camera System
I just spent 2 minutes searching on the internet. Here's a guy with a C2Q 9550 idling at 69 watts. Honestly, lets just drop it. Your pride, or reputation, or whatever will never ever let you believe what I say. I'm sure you'd rather be doing other things than calling me mean names over and...- bobfather
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(16) 3MP Camera System
Believe what you'd like. I took pictures as evidence for all my claims when I did my testing earlier today. Here's a link to the album. Not sure what video card the Q9550 is running, but it's a Dell Optiplex 760 SFF chassis, so you can research it if you'd like. Surprisingly, it's hard for me...- bobfather
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(16) 3MP Camera System
I only see an attempt at a discussion taking place, along with attempts to shut down or derail those discussions! Since I, too have a Kill-A-Watt, I also did some measurements: i7-3770 with a GTX 1070 (my gaming computer): 64 watts idle, 129 running Prime95 with all cores loaded. And probably...- bobfather
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(16) 3MP Camera System
You're not reading my posts closely, and you're getting confused. I never stated I ran a C2Q for Blue Iris. I always stated I used a 3rd gen i5, and I recommended buying a 3rd gen i7 for Blue Iris. 120w from the wall is right for a full computer with an i7 under 100% load. 60w for an i5-6500...- bobfather
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(16) 3MP Camera System
Indeed, my residential rate is a bit less than 9 cents to 10.8 cents per kwh. At those prices, a 120w i7 system vs a 60w i5 system is about a $.13 to $.15 cent cost difference, per day. So an i7 is $55 more expensive to run each year. However, the i7 has a lot more power and will support more...- bobfather
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(16) 3MP Camera System
1. Very few businesses are in the position to replace perfectly running, functional hardware just to save $.10 (10 cents) or less per day on electricity costs, per system. 2. The cheapest i5-6500 system on Ebay is $100 more than the i7-3770 system I linked. It's pre-owned, also. 3. Regarding...- bobfather
- Post #13
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(16) 3MP Camera System
I didn't mention Core2Quads as a recommendation for running Blue Iris, but as an example that a computer processor that is 10 generations old still performs well enough and reliably enough to use for the work we do. As I said before, I'm using a 3rd generation i5 processor for 24 cameras @...- bobfather
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(16) 3MP Camera System
Your points are taken, but in this day and age, very few people use Blue Iris on the PC to monitor. I exclusively use the mobile app or UI2 for all functions except exporting video I need to save. If Blue Iris isn't open, the integrated graphics don't matter and won't help, so long as QuickSync...- bobfather
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(16) 3MP Camera System
I would personally go for an i7-3770 system. Ebay has tons of these - here's a complete system for $219. Add another 4GB of RAM for $30, and a 4TB hard drive for $100-130. ~$400 all in after you purchase Blue Iris, less than 10% slower than the i7-6700, and about 30% faster than the i5-6500...- bobfather
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I made a better remote-live-view page [OLD]
Edit: Nevermind, I noticed it said that audio is only for live video streams. Sorry I didn't read more closely. Disregard below. I'm having a small problem: On Firefox, I can view live video with sound (the sound toggle works fine to turn sound on or off). But when reviewing old footage, the...- bobfather
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- Forum: Customizing
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What is better for blueiris more cpu cores or GHz?
So much hardware overkill in here for running Blue Iris! We are running Blue Iris on the following: i5-3570K (stock core speed), 8GB RAM, 2x 4TB WD Purples (in RAID-1), 1x 128 GB Sandisk SSD for the system drive Blue Iris is running 22 Hikvision cams, the majority recording at 1080P. Each...- bobfather
- Post #61
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Cube 3MP vs 4MP
The 4MP version is an R6 cam that supports H264+. H264+ appears to use at least 40% less data than regular H264, and the quality is the same, if not better. Only problem is, Blue Iris still hasn't added hardware acceleration for H264+ feeds, so with the interface open your CPU will get murdered...