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I'm looking at building a 4-8 camera system, using motion detection (10fps) w/ 30fps full record when motion is detected. Which processor would be recommend for this? Is CPU really that intense, or is it the hard drive / memory (i'm gonna use SATA + 512mb DDR memory)