Thanks for the advise and feedback. We shelved the AMD CPU and board for another time and purchased an i7-12700K, ASRock Z690 Extreme WiFi 6E, 64G DDR, 24port 400Watt POE, a case, cooling and other accessories. Hikvision seems to have a good reputation so we will probably go with recommended cameras...

Re contact BI: I will but the feed back here gives me info to ask relevant questions. Also to go over what we really need.

Thank you all PTZ / I couldn't find PTX Makes sense though we don't know if we have the best position. Work performance is not monitored I saw a reference to a user database I'll search for it. "If you are using AMD without a compatible GPU then you are stuck in the worst case number one."...

I maybe should’ve gone into a little more detail about our business. We are a greenhouse operation (vegetable) that primarily hires people with challenges. Most likely we will file for 501 status this year. What’s driving this is that an employee had a seizure that resulted in a serious wound on his...

After nearly getting sued we have decided to upgrade our security camera system. We've been looking at systems similar to Hikvision DS-7716NXI-I4/16P/ and DS-7616NXI-I2/16P/ The goal is (16) 5 to 8mp cameras with (4) PTZ and (2) vari focal. We would like for 11 of the cameras to record full time fro...