[FFmpeg-devel] Hardware purchase request

[Lynne]

Apr 2, 2021, 23:28 by michael at niedermayer.cc:

> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 11:03:16PM +0300, Jan Ekström wrote:
>
> IMO some of this list is quite reasonable like a 1TB NVME, then iam not
> sure why you need a 2nd one. That can be needed of course but its not clear
> from just the list. But really i dont want to "critique" the list, it just
> overall feels like there was a misunderstanding and iam happy to approve
> a machiene in the 2-3k range or also higher if its explained why its needed
> for FFmpeg
>
> and sorry for my late reply
>

By removing the screen (could borrow one for now), half the RAM, the second SSD,
and changing the motherboard, I can get this down to 4400 EUR.
Unfortunately, the CPU and GPU constitute a large amount of the sum and not
even downgrading them to a 6800 and a 5900 helps, in fact both of those are
completely out of stock wherever I checked, since they used to be cheaper.
So now there's mostly only the higher end options left, if at all.
I could probably change the RAM to save on an additional 100 EUR, but
I don't see this going below 4000 EUR.
In the past you could probably have gotten away with much less, but like I said,
there's a chip shortage going on where everything is much more expensive
than it otherwise should have been, if it's even available in stock.

I'll still likely have to do what I'll have to do to get the Vulkan code ready for 5.0
without any of this, so no hard feelings if any of you disagrees.