Geo system advice needed

[fas 0]

Took a look at a job today. There are currently 16 cameras, all different makes. Pc based system with a geo card with the lowest recording fps, and no live view. Pc is a p4 dell with xp and 256 ram. All done with cat 5 and baluns. Very sloppy, but actually works and doesn't look half bad, except no live view. Customer wants to add 10 more cameras. I use Nuvico for my cameras, so will prob go with the Nuvixo hi res domes. Never used cat 5 with baluns, but since they did might give it a try because it will be so much easier to pull. I'll double up on the power lines. My main question is, since i cannot access the geovision website, can I add another 16 port geo card to the pc which is already running a 16 port card. I would like to add a 480 fps card and possibly replace the other card to a 480 fps, but I'm not sure if the pc can handle 2 cards. I would also like to upgrade the ram to 2gb because it should help. What do you think? Any suggestions? I have never done a pc system, always stand alone dvr. Thanks.

[Guest]

Hi Fas!

 

You can not at the present have more then 16 cameras on one Geovision system (1 PC). So you then will have to use 2 X PC with Geovision. Also I think that by experience a 256MB PC from a PC builder like DELL and others probably is a low end PC = the RAM is a signal on what other parts that are used in that PC; like onboard VGA, VIA Chipset + other thins like what does the Motherboard/Bios support of memory upgrades etc.

 

1 PC, with new MB, VGA, CPU, MEMORY, HDD's and Windows licenses is pretty cheap in the long run instead of spending hours trying to fix anythin.

 

 

JD

 

 

Took a look at a job today. There are currently 16 cameras, all different makes. Pc based system with a geo card with the lowest recording fps, and no live view. Pc is a p4 dell with xp and 256 ram. All done with cat 5 and baluns. Very sloppy, but actually works and doesn't look half bad, except no live view. Customer wants to add 10 more cameras. I use Nuvico for my cameras, so will prob go with the Nuvixo hi res domes. Never used cat 5 with baluns, but since they did might give it a try because it will be so much easier to pull. I'll double up on the power lines. My main question is, since i cannot access the geovision website, can I add another 16 port geo card to the pc which is already running a 16 port card. I would like to add a 480 fps card and possibly replace the other card to a 480 fps, but I'm not sure if the pc can handle 2 cards. I would also like to upgrade the ram to 2gb because it should help. What do you think? Any suggestions? I have never done a pc system, always stand alone dvr. Thanks.

[Rebco 0]

Even tough i too am a geovision loyalist, I can only tell you that avermedia has the two cards to put together to make a 32 channel system.

I hope geovision gets off there donkey soon and come up with there own stackable cards. It's about time...