On Wed, Sep 2, 2026 at 12:23 AM Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 02:18:15AM +0200, Timo Rothenpieler via ffmpeg-devel 
> wrote:
> > In order to enable our Ampere-Server to host the Netint Quadra VPU card, I
> > had to buy it a new OCP3 Network Card, to free up the only working PCIe
> > slot.
> >
> > I bought the cheapest cheapest model I could find, which was a refurbished
> > Lenovo one:
> > > https://www.serverschmiede.com/en/lenovo-mellanox-connectx6-lx-2x-10-25gb-sfp28-ocp-30-controller-cx631432a-02yg185
> >
> > There was also an Intel X710 option, which would have been 10€ cheaper, but
> > a mlx5 driven NIC is usually much nicer and friendlier for virtualization
> > than those old Intel ones. So the 10€ extra seemed a good deal.
> >
> > The total cost of the order thus was 208€ for the card, plus 11.07€
> > shipping, for a total of 219.07€.
>
> LGTM

This is also approved by my side.

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