Jackiep 0 Posted June 3, 2014 Hello, As of next week I'll have a total of 4x Hikvision DS-2032-i 3MP Bullet cameras and 2x 1080p ONVIF PTZ cameras. My current NVR isn't up to the job though, so I'm looking to buy a Synology NAS and a small PC to to connect to my TV. As far as I can tell (although please correct me if I'm wrong), the Synology DS-713+ NAS should be fine with this number of cameras. But I'm not sure how to deal with the PC... Just how powerful does a PC need to be in order to comfortably use Surveillance station? Could I use a low end Intel "NUC" PC? I see that these tiny NUC PC's (which can usually be mounted to the VESA screw holes on the back of a TV) come with all sorts of CPU options (celeron/ i3 / i5 /i7 etc) and I just don't know what to do. I don't want to get something that isn't powerful enough, but I really don't want to get carried away either. Can anyone share some knowledge/experience with this? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ssnapier 0 Posted June 8, 2014 I have not looked up the specs but if the recording is being handled by the NAS, I would be quite comfortable using an i3 machine with at least 8GB of RAM. I would still personally use a decent video card with at least 2GB of RAM on board since this will obviously be a video heavy usage. Anything beyond that would just be gravy, but get the highest spec you can afford to keep the future upgrade time farther away. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MaxIcon 0 Posted June 8, 2014 When choosing a video card, you'll want to pay more attention to 2D performance than 3D performance. Gamer cards use a lot of power (and sometimes add fan noise) and don't add much to the performance of 2D apps like NVRs. Many benchmarks show the aggregate performance (2D and 3D), so it's not always easy to separate out the two without running the benchmarks yourself. My tests of older high-performance gamer cards showed that the higher benchmark scores are almost completely due to 3D performance. The recent 3rd/4th gen i5/i7 CPUs, with HD4000 graphics and above on the chip, give pretty durn good 2D performance, often just as good as a $100 or more gamer card. They just don't have the 3D performance. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ssnapier 0 Posted June 9, 2014 That is a fair point... " title="Applause" /> " title="Applause" /> " title="Applause" /> Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moe3615 0 Posted June 18, 2014 The Synology model you speak of should be more than sufficient, I've used that model with more than 4 cameras. Just so you know, you have other options to display the display on the TV. 1) Synology has a product for viewing video (maybe video station or something similar) 2. Something like the ACTi ECD-1000 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
