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

[Neal Gompa]

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. :)


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