Is pc hardware expensive where you live?

[toms94z71]

Expensive is all relative to your income. For some people spending 8 grand on a system is pocket change and nothing computer hardware related to them is expensive, to others buying a 20$ fan is expensive. Speaking of hardware, I am itching to buy some more lol.

[Cookie Monster]

Everyone outside America is paying too much to subsidise those cheapskates.

 

eg Titan Black

 

microcenter $1019.00

PCCaseGear A$1429 (~US$1386)

 

Even taking off the 10% GST there is still a US$200+ difference; it doesn't come with the free game either.

[Tech_Dreamer]

It don't matter. I'm rich as fu**... B)

 

 

 

 

 

 

ninja loves to crowd surf

[IdeaStormer]

Geeze, am I the only one who buys online due to the freaking great deals online? :huh:

[LeopardChurch]

Well here things tend to be more expensive compared to the USA. Say for example the MSI 780 TI which is 709 dollars or the actual price for which it is sold here 631.590 pesos.

The dollar is around 566 pesos so 709 dollar converted to pesos is 709*566 = 401.294 pesos, and it is being sold at 631.590 pesos or 1115,8 dollars. So taxes and a bunch of other factors are quite annoying. Especially since average income here is around 243 thousand pesos. So yep things are expensive here in Chile. 

[Almercenary]

I live in Aus, so you can probably work it out by the amount of complaining we do.

[SSOB]

Not really, you have to shop around tho unlike in the states where basically everywhere prices are kinda similar.

[DaRk0]

Serbia here. ASUS GTX780 is $660 and average salary is $500 so yeah... Expensive.

[tS_kStin]

Nope :lol: USA FTW. And I don't even have a sales tax in my state lol. 

[SAV1OUR]

hell yea 780s are $700+ in australia...

 

 

we have shitty pricing  

[iNothing]

hell yea 780s are $700+ in australia...

 

 

we have shitty pricing

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#FirstWorldTechieProblems

[JupiteL]

Very. Mostly are 100-200 $ more than newegg. And no online sale either because companies here are greedy fucks.

[Mines_Skyline]

Yes computer components are expensive where i live. I live in southern Ontario, Canada. Computer parts are a lot more expensive here than they are in places like the United States. 

 

Comparison:

American Site: EVGA GTX 780 ACX $519.99 USD = $562.08 CDN http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130918

Canadian Site: EVGA GTX 780 ACX $609.99 CDN = $562.33 USD http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130918

 

On top of that, you have to add the 13% tax which takes the price up way too high!

[Avcn42]

Titan Black: 2000 USD

780 Ti: 1250-1300 USD

4770k: 580 USD

 

Yep, pretty expensive

[AxelRantila]

Hei, Hatsune here and I wonder is pc hardware expensive where you live? Where I live for the moment (Sweden) most computer componets seem to skyrocket from the regular 1 dollar = 6.6 sek to 1 dollar = 9 sek which is insane...

So is it expensive where you live? And if so please post where you are from :3

I prefer that instead of looking at the profile info box thing. Thanks

I also live in Sweden and yes, hardware is a not all that cheap here. Even though I'm waiting for both Haswell refresh and Nvidias 800-series, I quickly looked at the prices for the parts of my new PC yesterday and yep, they are expansive.

[Ryoku]

On top of that, you have to add the 13% tax which takes the price up way too high!

Thank god I live in Alberta we only have 5% GST Tax.

[adamdidthis]

I live in NZ and all tech stuff is expensive here as it has to be imported.

 

using the titan black example:

 

US = $1019USD

NZ = $1505USD

 

I am about to spend about $2500NZD on watercooling my PC, 25% of that is shipping from the states.

[One Who Craves Souls]

Here they sell a reference 770 for $445, but us tech lovers living on this island use most USA sites like Newegg, Amazon etc anyways.

[district_11]

UK, so yes.

 

£140 for a Shine 3 :huh:

[ElDracBou]

Good question, nice topic, AND BETTER COMUNITY...

 

Well lets see is my first time posting at linustechtips so hello world here I am.

 

I'm from somewhere of southern Europe, from a City called Barcelona beside the mediterranean sea 

 

So in this side of the world now we live in €uro Money Comunity.

 

If you want to do a hardware shopping today at the Spanish State with your USD money yo will need  1,376 dollar to have a Euro.

 

Taking a look at the hardware price's, we found similars numbers to the american ones, yeah similar numbers, however in exchange its cost is larger enough.

An intel CoreI5 4670K cpu price is about 200€ (275 USD). an I7-4770K about 270. (370 USD)

 

On the other side we can find FX procesor like 8350 for 160€(220 USD), or a Kaveri APU about 150€.

 

Talking about graphics cards, A High end one like GTX 780Ti its avalaible from the fucking and scaring price of 620€.... I think that this is inhumane eh? Titan black since 900..

 

You can get a Radeon 290 for 400€ and the lasta 295X from 1300....

 

However, I seen better prices than here browsing on UK sites, and lowest prices also in costumized machines.

 

I also saved some money ordering some thing from Germany, even pating transportation of course. I think that problem in here is they don't respect values about money conversion, well just for saying anything but I don't I thing this is hardware cannibalism.

[OGFatal]

Here they sell a reference 770 for $445, but us tech lovers living on this island use most USA sites like Newegg, Amazon etc anyways.

UK: £250

[MellowCream]

Nope USA baby!

 

[TheSLSAMG]

Not at all.

 

i7s for $250, GTX 780s for $470, MPOWER MAXes for $200.

 

The perks of being 15 minutes away from a New York Micro Center.

[One Who Craves Souls]

UK: £250

That equals to some 420-425 USA dollars if I'm right, so the Caribbean wins! Wait... this is nothing to be proud of.

 

At least is a USA territory, I buy from online stores.

[LOLPhilips]

Yarrrrrrr,

 

It be very very expensive, but that mainly be the cost of gettin' it delivered at sea anywhere on the world.

I usually wait till I reach a harbor, and then buy at local price. So it can depend on where I be.