Need advice for building dedicated pc for BI

[HTInstallNJ]

So I recently purchased a Blue Iris and have been running it on a mini digital signage pc that I had laying around from my business however I have too many cameras and CPU goes to 100% and crashes BI almost immediately.

Currently, I have a total of 7 3mp Dahua Cams run with POE. I plan on gradually adding more cameras (another 8-9) around my property. I currently have everything wired and just am buying cameras here and there. We have a lot of property and I run a AV business so I treat this as a learning experience/hobby.

I want to run these cameras as close to real time as I can at 3mp and recording constantly if possible. I want to build a computer that can handle my current/future setup and not have to worry about crashing the computer. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for any info.

 

[fenderman]

If you are going to run 16 cameras at 3mp, then you will need at the minimum an i7-4790 haswell...these can be had from the dell business outlet for under 500...
You will have to limit your frame rates to 15fps..You might want to wait for skylake...