Thinking about updating to v.5 with Priority Maintenance

[soarwitheagles]

Hi everyone!

Glad to see a new and positive alternative to sharing our ideas and challenges with Blue Iris!

Ok, here is our situation...

We have had Blue Iris for a number of years. It worked incredibly well for some years. Over a year ago, we started having issues. We could not find the solutions to resolve the issues.

Here are our questions...

1. If we purchase the v.5 with Priority Maintenance will this include tech support to help us resolve issues?
2. Has anyone here purchase the Priority Maintenance and if yes, how has the service been?
3. We need to do a clean install of Windows 10 [Microsoft tech advice], is there anyway to save or should we save the current BI v4 settings?
4. We have a dedicated i-7 4770k with 8GB or RAM but have tons of DDR3 laying around. Would BI v.5 work better with 16GB of DDR3?
5. With the massive improvements of the AMD CPU's, is the general consensus still to remain with Intel CPU's with the hyper threading?

Our system

Intel i-7 4770k
ASRock Fatal1ty Z97 Killer MB
Corsair 1600 DDR3 8GB
Z liquid cooler

Our cameras

10 of 2032's
8 New in box Lorex cameras from Costco [purchased 2 years ago].
8 Waze cameras, but we would understand if we cannot include them in BI.

Ok, hope we did not overdo our first post in asking questions...

Please help us if you can!

Soar