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

[Lynne]

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.