BI system with i7-7700 CPU + a discrete grahpic card

wepee

wepee

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Hi all,

I am building a system with a 7th Gen Intel CPU.
I am just wondering do I really need a discrete graphic card on the system?
Can do it without the card?

Let's say I leave out the graphic card...........and use only the the build-in Intel GPU.........
1) Will the system have enough resource when I am doing playback in BI?
2) Will the playback of BVR raw footage be smooth (no lagging problem)?

Let's say I include the graphic card......
1) Instead of using the recommended Nvidia card, any issue of using AMD Radeon cards?

Thank you in advance.:)
 
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Depends a lot on how many cameras and how many total MP/s you are planning to have in your system. However, your starting point should just be the Intel CPU and built-in graphics. If you are struggling with CPU (don't know how many cameras you got so..) then you could move to Blue Iris substreams, or more powerful Intel CPU with built-in graphics.
 
I have an older i7-4790 CPU. I use the Intel Quicksync for the BI processing. The mother board does not have a DVI or HDMI interface, So i use a cheap graphics card (VisionTek Radeon 5450 2GB ) for HDMI. If i did not need the HDMI i would not have the graphics card.
 
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crw030 said:
Depends a lot on how many cameras and how many total MP/s you are planning to have in your system. However, your starting point should just be the Intel CPU and built-in graphics. If you are struggling with CPU (don't know how many cameras you got so..) then you could move to Blue Iris substreams, or more powerful Intel CPU with built-in graphics.
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Most likely, I will be buying a couple of 4K Dahua cameras in the future, when the price is cheaper.
But planing to buy 1 coming soon. But I cannot tell the exact number of cameras at this stage,
whether it going to be 2MP, 4MP or 5MP......

In terms of total MP/S, does it really has any effect on having a discrete card?

Yes, I will be using Sub Stream for live viewing on my system.
 
SouthernYankee said:
I have an older i7-4790 CPU. I use the Intel Quicksync for the BI processing. The mother board does not have a DVI or HDMI interface, So i use a cheap graphics card (VisionTek Radeon 5450 2GB ) for HDMI. If i did not need the HDMI i would not have the graphics card.
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Ok thanks for your input, then I can conclude that I don't really need to have
a Nvidia card, I can fall back to recycle my old silent AMD Radeon card if it deems necessary :)
 
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wepee said:
In terms of total MP/S, does it really has any effect on having a discrete card?
es, I will be using Sub Stream for live viewing on my system.
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Blue Iris v5 substreams has dramatically lowered the hardware requirements when running multiple and high-MP systems. I would recommend against a discrete graphics card until you find yourself running into problems then return here for guidance.
Unless you can't get the resolution & refresh rate you need or VRAM is a problem, or like @SouthernYankee you need a different graphics output (even then you can often adapt one to another) you shouldn't need a discrete GPU.

Adding an unnecessary GPU just adds to your power usage, driving up the cost to operate the system 24x7.
 
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crw030 said:
Blue Iris v5 substreams has dramatically lowered the hardware requirements when running multiple and high-MP systems. I would recommend against a discrete graphics card until you find yourself running into problems then return here for guidance.
Unless you can't get the resolution & refresh rate you need or VRAM is a problem, or like @SouthernYankee you need a different graphics output (even then you can often adapt one to another) you shouldn't need a discrete GPU.

Adding an unnecessary GPU just adds to your power usage, driving up the cost to operate the system 24x7.
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@crw030 Ok thanks :)
I will build the system without the discrete card.
 
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