Someone10101

Thanks Everyone! Yeap, the 680 isn't the most problem free right now, but I'm hoping it is within a month. Well, I guess I'll probably stay with the Gigabyte GA965P-DQ6 Rev 3.3 once it comes out. At least the Intel 965 chipset are supported. Thanks!

Hi, Does anyone know or have tried the Geovision cards on a nVidia 680 chipset MB such as the Asus Striker or eVGA 680? I did look at rory list of PCs and search the forum, but found nothing regarding this chipset. Looks like it might work since the list of PCs shows some nVidia chipset working. Appreciate anyone feedback. Thanks!

I'm looking to monitor my home and need help with choosing a system and having it installed. House is prewire using RG-6 siamese cable. Thank You!

Hello, I've been doing a lot of research and reading on the forums for the past few days and would appreciate any help, suggestions, advices, etc... anyone can give me regarding what I want to do in the household. I've just purchased a new home and would like to setup a home surveillance system. Let me start off with my house configurations first please. The home is prewire in every bedrooms, family room, den, and loft with the followings: RG6 Quad Shielding x 2 CAT5 x 1 CAT6E x 1 In other words, every bedrooms, family room, den, and loft in the house has a total of 4 drops; two RG6, 1 CAT5 for telephone, and one CAT6E for gigabit ethernet. The family room actually has three RG6 instead of two RG6. There are a total of 4 bedrooms(including the Master bedroom) in the house. In addition to this, all sides of the house are prewire with one siamese cables with the exception of the front, which has two siamese cables(one at the garage and one near the front door). All windows downstair are pre-wire for home security. A total of three pre-wire locations for motion detectors throughout the entire house. I have no plans on getting any pet animals at all. So there's no concern about false alarms from any pet animals. Here's what I'm looking to do and want to be able to do with my setup. 1. The ability to monitor all 5 cameras remotely. 2. Four of the five cameras need to be able to resist rain, cold weather(32 degree F), and as high as 110 degree F during the summer days. No snow where I live. 3. The ability to see the person face clear enough, day and night, for the police to prosecute the criminal(s). The facial shot doesn't have to be extremely clear and sharp. 4. Two of the cameras are about ten feet of the ground. Another two are about fourteen feet off the ground. The last camera , at the door, is at five feet. 5. The ability to monitor all 5 cameras at once(split view) from every room in the house using the TV, not the PC. 6. The ability to monitor each cameras individually(full screeen) from every room in the house using the TV, not the PC. 7. Three out of the five cameras, I would like the ability to do PTZ from the house and remotely. *8. When the camera detect motion at night, the exterior lights turn on automatically where the motion is detected. 9. Record all 5 cameras from the main PC that has the DVR card installed and at the same time, have a hidden PC record all 5 cameras too. This way, should the criminal(s) steal the main PC with the DVR, there would be a backup somewhere else in the house, possiblly in the bathroom, kitchen pantry, fireplace , etc... *10. When the windows alarm is trigger, all lights downstair(garage, family room, kitchen, den, dining room, bathrooms), upstairs(hallway, loft), frontyard porch light, and backyard flood lights are turned on. Maybe sound a siren to wake everyone up in the house too....don't know yet. 11. Audio/MIC at the front door so when someone approach the front door and I'm monitoring the person, I can talk to them to make it sound like I'm in the house, but in reality, I'm not. Ex. UPS comes by and ring the door bell, I can say "Leave the package at the door. Thank You!" from a remote location. NOTE: Item #8 and #10 are not essential, but nice to have if it can be done within budget. From my reading, it sounds like I'm looking at the GeoVision hardware because of it's capablility to do remote monitoring and PTZ. I'm just not clear on how I would do PTZ with the GeoVision hardware because all I have running to each camera is a siamese cable, and no CAT6E networking cable. In addition, I'm also confuse on how I can view each camera individual or all at once on each TV in each room. Any help would be appreciated. I'm trying to keep the cost down to $5K excluding the PC. If I can do all the above with $2K, that would be even better. Thanks! Someone10101

Thanks Rory and Thomas! To answer your questions Rory...I'm still debating and doing more research on contacts and windows screens. I know windows screens would be best, but cost more. Contacts, I would need to be able to detect a window breakage and someone opening the window. I wouldn't mind working with you on an alarm system, but the thing is, when I choose a home security monitoring service for burglar and fire, the company I choose will, almost always, want to install their own equipments. The house is in Northen Califonia in the city of Stockton. Let me do some more research and calling around to find out if I can use my own alarm systems. If they let me, I would rather buy the hardwares myself and install them myself. Last, is there any way to monitor the channels from each room without using a RF modulator and running more wires; another two wires won't hurt, but if I need to run another two wires to every room, then, that can be a lot of headache because the drywalls are already up. The reason why I prefer not to use a RF modulator is because I don't want other people to see what my cameras are capable of seeing. If the criminals know what my cameras can see, then they know it's weaknesses. Thanks! Somone