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Yes, new ones can get pricey. I recently spent $1500 building an 8700k system, although you can definitely go cheaper. I got a semi-expensive GPU and quite a bit of storage. You should be able to spend $300-500 and get a pretty nice refurb.

I got a little unhinged earlier, so I apologize to everyone for that. I just got a little annoyed because people were calling me an idiot even though I'm aware it obviously costs more money to run and specifically said in the post that I don't care for the purposes of this discussion.

Good info.

Thanks for the answer. Exactly what I need. I was mainly just unsure on just how much CPU each camera would need in direct-to-disk mode. Sounds like it's time to consider an upgrade. I have an 8700k at home, fantastic CPU. Thank you for not being a condescending cunt like everyone else. Instead...

Guys, I'm not here to get into an argument about power consumption (which is why I said in the OP that we're not concerned with power consumption, I figured somebody would bring it up and I'm aware of that factor), although I will keep your advice in mind. I'm just trying to determine my options...

No, but with the 6 Haas mill machines and lathes eating 8-10 kW each for 8 hours a day, this isn't even a blip on the radar for our electric bill lol. If you consider the cost of buying a new i5 or i7 system, it's basically a wash anyway. At best. So, if this works, it's the way to go IMO. If it...

That's even with direct-to-disk enabled and motion detection turned off? We're not concerned with the power consumption. It'll probably be somewhere around 300 watts.

I'm looking to run Blue Iris on an older server that we already have, a Dell PowerEdge R610 w/ dual socket Xeon X5650. This is a total of 12 physical cores at 2.67 Ghz. It has 32 GB of RAM. I don't know much about BI CPU usage. At home, I run a single camera on a similar system in a VM with no...