building a blue iris computer

[wilric]

Hello everyone I am glad I found this forum, it is teaching me a lot.
We just started recording our cameras, using BI and expanding their numbers.
we will have
8 ip3m-954 EB
1 ip4m-1025EB

1 FI9826W

1 FI9828W

maybe a couple more.

We are going to get a tower with
I7-479 16 bg
500 gb sata for operating system
2 segate 6 TB surveillance drives 128 mg
nVIDIA PCI-E 2GB DDR3 VGA
DVI VIDEO CARD

i have read the post about the hardware and it says the support for the nVidia isn't really available yet. is this something i should order and not use or get some other type of video card.

Currently i have 5 camera on my NUC I5 4250 8 gb and my processor is running around 70-90%.

I am hoping that with Blue Iris remote view it won't use too much additional CPU

i am setting the video 20 FPS and i have recording direct to disk

do these specs look ok as i would rather get something over power than under power.


Thanks
Richard (rookie)

 

[fenderman]

Welcome to the forum. Dont build a pc. Buy a dell optiplex 7020/9020 i7-4790 from the outlet for 500 or so (there is a sale twice a month). Do not use discrete graphics, blue iris is optimized for intel HD graphics with quicksync.
With your load you can even us an i5-4590 for 300 dollars.

 

[wilric]

thank you,

 

[bp2008]

wilric, before you buy or build a new machine, make sure you have done these things:

1) Enable intel hardware acceleration!!
2) Limit the live preview rate as necessary to reduce CPU usage.

Those are both found in Blue Iris Options > Cameras tab. Each can make a HUGE difference.