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Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Hardware purchase request: Ryzen 9 CPU
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On Fri, 04 Apr 2025 23:54:55 +0200 Niklas Haas <ffmpeg@haasn.xyz> wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Apr 2025 19:20:55 +0200 Niklas Haas <ffmpeg@haasn.xyz> 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.
> 
> Note: While double-checking the compatibility, I noticed that the proposed
> Motherboard has its PCI-Express lanes configured rather suboptimally for my
> workstation.
> 
> I found instead the MSI MAG X870E TOMAHAWK WIFI, which costs roughly the same
> as the Gigabyte board but supports running a PCIe x16 slot and two M.2 SSD slots
> at full bandwidth, or alternatively splitting the bandwidth of one SSD with
> the USB 40 Gbps port on the back.
> 
> (This is in contrast with the Gigabyte motherboard, which can only split the
> bandwidth of SSDs with the PCIe slot, and instead always dedicates x4 lanes to
> the less-useful rear USB-C port)

Will proceed with the purchase and send a separate refund request unless
there are any objections.

> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Niklas
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