I'd always used a cheap $40 card for dvr's for friends and family, worked 
pretty decent. Did some reading here and figured Geovision was the way to go. I'm sure so many people must be right but i still haven't been able to justify my over $700 price tag.  The wife is not smiling. Video over the internet looks better on my cheap card. 
  
Here's my setup: 
MB:    Asus P5GC-MXgc-mx 
CPU: E5400 2.70 Ghz dual core 
Chipset: 945GC / ICH7 
Memory: Corsair 2GB 
250Gb H/D (Partitioned to about a 30gb C: ) 
Video Card: bought a ATI Sapphire HD 3650 512MB 
previously had a ATI RX1550 128MB. tried both. 
Power Supply: came with  cheap case 500w i think. 
  
GeoVision Card: GV-1240 
GeoVision Software Version: 8.2  
Screen Resolution: 1024x768  
Video Size: 720x480  
Motion/Continuous: Motion 
Codec: Geo Mpeg4 ASP   
  
FPS:  GREYED OUT FOR SOME REASON 
So is the "Enable Directdraw Overlay" option. 
Every few seconds there is a glitch when playing back recorded 
footage. Another little oddity. I could swear that when i first installed 
the geovision software there was a tab on the system configure  
menu that said TCP/IP and a port setting 3550 i think. 
Haven't seen it since i reinstalled, odd. 
I found some recommended settings in a post here but unfortunately 
none of those sliders (quantizer, keyframe interval etc.) are active in my advanced codec setting menu. 
Also what is recommended program for internet viewing. 
Using the IE browser and watching only 2 cameras seems 
to provide the smoothest pic. 4-9 FPS per cam. 
The DMMultiView is just okay. 
  
I'm gon need some help or a refund before i start sleeping on the couch. 
  
Haxxx.