[FFmpeg-devel] Hardware purchase request: Ryzen 9 CPU

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi Niklas

On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 07:20:55PM +0200, Niklas Haas wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> My current workstation (first generation Zen) is getting rather old (8 years).
> On top of being slow and power hungry, it is also not very representative
> anymore of modern hardware.
> 
> Additionally, I would like to try and incorporate AVX-512 instructions for
> my swscale rewrite, in particular for the pixel conversions.
> 
> The recently released Ryzen 9 series of workstation CPUs are looking very
> attractive right now; In particular the 9950X3D, which appears at the top of
> the timed compilation benchmarks.
> 
> As such, I am humbly requesting the purchase of this CPU, alongside a suitable
> mainboard and RAM:
> 
> https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/fFshGJ
> The total price at time of posting would be 1364 EUR.

You can maybe safe 5-10€ by looking the items up here:
https://geizhals.de/amd-ryzen-9-9950x3d-100-100000719wof-a3381558.html
https://geizhals.de/gigabyte-x870e-aorus-elite-wifi7-x870e-a-elite-wifi7-a3286589.html

But if you prefer to avoid less well known sellers, thats ok and maybe safer in terms
of supply chain issues ...

either way, this LGTM from my point of view, I hope the tarif stuff our
politicans are breweing isnt going to affect prices

thx

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