BlueIris & Hardware limitations

[RemoteDoc]

My question is, I have a HP Media Smart EX485 with an upgraded e5200 dual core CPU. I'm curious how much CPU BlueIris consums, and does it increase exponentially with many cameras attached? My server runs is used for other functions as well (backups, FTP). If you specifically own many cameras and use BlueIris, do you see the need to have a dedicated computer to manage the video data coming in? Thanks in advance.

[sadik007]

it depends...
what resolution do you record, what frame rate.. do you do motion detection.. and etc

I have 5 cams on E5200.. and CPU load is about 20-30%

[buellwinkle]

I have four cameras, 1.3MP and 2 cameras that are vga resolution and it consumes about 50% CPU on my Atom 330 processor. It is dedicated 100% for this function. Of course as motion is detected and it starts to write to disk, processor usage goes up. Eventually I plan on having six megapixel cameras feeding BlueIris on this PC. I would guess the limit on this PC is about 8 although there are NVR's that use the Atom 330 processor and claim support for 12 cameras, of course it doesn't say 12 cameras all with megapixel resolution.

If you are going to have more cameras, get a PC with an i7 processor, I'm sure you can drive 16+ cameras with that chip. Just make sure you have a good video card, not the one that comes on cheap motherboards. I only use the Atom 330 because it's cheap and has very low power consumption.
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