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

[Timo Rothenpieler]

On 20.04.2025 02:10, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM Niklas Haas <ffmpeg at haasn.xyz> wrote:
>>
>> 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)
>>
> 
> The memory controller is part of the CPU, and all AMD Ryzen CPUs
> support ECC memory as long as they physically fit in the slot. :)

They support it in the sense that it'll work as RAM.
But without active mainboard support, there is no EDAC support, which is 
the whole point of ECC RAM.