well sheeit. Now I'm conflicted... my employer offers a salary sacrifice scheme, so I can buy stuff from a particular retailer and they'll take it out of my pay packet before tax/pension/health etc is deducted, so overall I pay less out in taxes

normally they only have silly things like airfryers, vacuum cleaners and typical home stuff

just found the hidden menu for IT stuff, 7950x for £47 per month (12 months)

Tempting

full build, 7950x, 32gb Vengeance pro 3200mhz, X670 mobo... £87.44 a month for 12 months.

3200 mhz? 7950X uses DDR5, double check what you're getting

7950X is a beast

yup was just checking that... they don't have DDR5 in the list :/ also a poor choice of gpu's

however mobo and chip would make for a heck of a saving overall

Running 7900X here and it is good

worst case you get ram outside of that system

they have that for £38.77 a month :)

Also remember new socket

AM5 ya, mobo isn't the cheapest :)

yup I think if there's a sale on in January I'll be sticking an order in

My old i7-7700K was getting a bit tight for development stuff here so went for beefy amd build

Which means no EPYC server build to replace all I have now for the foreseeable future :(

Power bills on idle stuff now expected to be at 8000-10000 SEK a month for the few servers, and that is with HDDs removed and everything set to power saving