My employer is getting new computers for our works stations, our current computers are made by Dell with 9th gen i5 and 16 gigs of ram and integrated graphics. I have been somewhat tasked with choosing the next computers. Our biggest resource hog is displaying our security cameras, when I have the cameras up it slows the computers down so much you can't do anything else until you minimize them. I'm wondering if a dedicated GPU would help take the load off the CPU and if so what would be the most cost effective GPU to do what we need? The facility has approximately 100 cameras but we only display up to 15 at a time, the cameras are fairly old and aren't the most detailed.

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This is a decent computer at a budget. ( wasn't sure what your company was looking at spending vs how many computers ect )
Also wasn't sure on the processor you already had , there is a major performance cap from a cheap one to an expensive one.
Would be ok for 8-10 Cameras on a 24-27" screen.
Dedicated Graphics card would be recommended if watching 15 cam's + at once, Especially if the screen is bigger than 21 inches.
Something like an Nvidia Gtx 1060TI would be enough for 15 cams at 27 Inches.

This post was edited by conetopia on Jun 22 2022 09:24am