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

[Niklas Haas]

On Fri, 04 Apr 2025 22:41:39 +0200 Lynne <dev at lynne.ee> wrote:
> On 04/04/2025 19:20, 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.
> 
> Sure, looks good to me.
> I'd advise going for ECC RAM these days, if only because they don't have 
> LEDs, but up to you.

Afaict, no current X870-generation motherboard on the market support ECC,
or if they do, they cost significantly more. (As well as the RAM)

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