Old PC good enough?

[didyouseethat]

I have an old PC that might be good enough to get started with Blue Iris and a few cameras, but I'm not sure, hoping you can help me as it's my first camera station build. It was an old gaming PC, but was retired from service a couple of years ago. Still runs great.

CPU

Intel® Core™ i7-4790K Processor (8M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz) Product Specifications

Intel® Core™ i7-4790K Processor (8M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz) quick reference guide including specifications, features, pricing, compatibility, design documentation, ordering codes, spec codes and more.

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PC Specs
CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K Processor
GPU: ASUS GeForce GTX 670 2GB GDDR5
Mobo: ASUS MAXIMUS VI IMPACT
RAM: 16GB
Storage: SSD for OS, maybe WD Purple for storage?

A couple of these cameras to start, then maybe some bullet cameras later.
Axis Communications M3057-PLVE 6MP 360

 

[wittaj]

Yes, that will be fine since you have it sitting around.

Folks run 50 cameras on a 4th gen.

Follow all the optimizations in the wiki. Substreams are must regardless of the computer.

My humble i5-4590 still humming along with 30+ cams:

I see people posting about their i7-xxxx system bogging down with less than 10 cameras so I wanted to update my setup. I have ~33 cams running on my BI system: HP Elitedesk 800 G1 tower i5-4590 @ 3.3GHz 16GB ram 12TB total purple drives for storage 30+ total cams currently - 22 cams visible in...

ipcamtalk.com

 

[fenderman]

I have an old PC that might be good enough to get started with Blue Iris and a few cameras, but I'm not sure, hoping you can help me as it's my first camera station build. It was an old gaming PC, but was retired from service a couple of years ago. Still runs great.

CPU

Intel® Core™ i7-4790K Processor (8M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz) Product Specifications

Intel® Core™ i7-4790K Processor (8M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz) quick reference guide including specifications, features, pricing, compatibility, design documentation, ordering codes, spec codes and more.

ark.intel.com

PC Specs
CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K Processor
GPU: ASUS GeForce GTX 670 2GB GDDR5
Mobo: ASUS MAXIMUS VI IMPACT
RAM: 16GB
Storage: SSD for OS, maybe WD Purple for storage?

A couple of these cameras to start, then maybe some bullet cameras later.
Axis Communications M3057-PLVE 6MP 360

You may want to pull the video card if your MB supports on board video...check the pc's power consumption.
For 100 bux or so you can buy an eighth gen i5 pc.

Consider that blue iris is not the best option if you will be using 360 cameras...here is some info from the blue iris help file

360
Use this setting to inform the software that this camera has a fish-eye lens. If this camera is
mounted on a ceiling, this can capture a 360-degree view. Mounted on a wall or door, this
creates a 180-degree panorama. Your setting here determines how the camera is de-warped
when viewed via either the clip Viewer window or a remote client.
As it may be extremely CPU-intensive to render the video in this way, it is not currently
offered for live video display.
Many cameras with this feature also offer multiple video streams that can be used to break
up the warped view into several de-warped views. In this case, you may consider adding
multiple camera windows to the software, each requesting a separate view from the camera.

 

[Keizer]

I've been using an old spare system for my BI setup since day one. It's an Intel i5-4440 and has 16GB of RAM. I did gut the power hungry graphics card out of it, because it was used for gaming previously. It has worked great and has been on 24/7 since I installed BI.

 

[didyouseethat]

Thanks, everyone! Looks like I can get started with this hardware and maybe take out the GPU. And @fenderman thanks for the extra info on 360 cameras!