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

[Niklas Haas]

On Fri, 04 Apr 2025 19:22:26 +0000 "softworkz ." <softworkz-at-hotmail.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of Niklas
> > Haas
> > Sent: Freitag, 4. April 2025 19:21
> > To: ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org
> > Subject: [FFmpeg-devel] Hardware purchase request: Ryzen 9 CPU
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Niklas
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> Hi Niklas,
> 
> looks like good choices to me!
> 
> But wouldn't it be better to go for an all-new machine rather than upgrading an 8-year-old box?

Hi Softworkz,

I have a much more recent GPU, PSU and SSDs. It's only the MB/CPU/RAM that are
8 years old, everything else has already been swapped out.

> 
> Best,
> sw
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