When I needed a PC for Blue Iris in early 2023, I re-purposed an older PC I had laying around. Since then, I added three WD purple drives to it.
The BI PC is a 2015/2016 build with an i5 6500 3.2 GHz (sixth gen) CPU, Z170 mini-ITX motherboard, 16 GB of DDR 3000 memory, a GTX960 video card, and Windows 10. This ITX case can contain three full size drives, and two 2.5” drives, not counting M.2 drives on the motherboard. Plan is to keep this case as the BI PC and upgrade components as needed.
I have got cameras, Blue Iris, remote access, and notification working. Now am thinking of getting into AI, a good reason to see if I should upgrade some PC hardware. At some point would have to upgrade hardware for Windows 11.
As a minimal upgrade, for $135 I can replace the motherboard with a Z690 2-NIC mobo, $300 will get me an i5-14600K CPU (a little lesser if I drop the “K” version), and these will enable the existing license to install Windows 11. For another $72 could replace the memory with 32 GB of DDR4 4000 memory. All other at-hand components could move over from the existing build.
Request opinions and input.
The BI PC is a 2015/2016 build with an i5 6500 3.2 GHz (sixth gen) CPU, Z170 mini-ITX motherboard, 16 GB of DDR 3000 memory, a GTX960 video card, and Windows 10. This ITX case can contain three full size drives, and two 2.5” drives, not counting M.2 drives on the motherboard. Plan is to keep this case as the BI PC and upgrade components as needed.
I have got cameras, Blue Iris, remote access, and notification working. Now am thinking of getting into AI, a good reason to see if I should upgrade some PC hardware. At some point would have to upgrade hardware for Windows 11.
As a minimal upgrade, for $135 I can replace the motherboard with a Z690 2-NIC mobo, $300 will get me an i5-14600K CPU (a little lesser if I drop the “K” version), and these will enable the existing license to install Windows 11. For another $72 could replace the memory with 32 GB of DDR4 4000 memory. All other at-hand components could move over from the existing build.
Request opinions and input.