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If the Australian dollar keeps plummeting an i7 would cost $500 probably soon. It is very close to that already. Around November-December of 2014 an i7 4790K cost $415, earlier than that it was $380. Yesterday I checked at PC Case Gear and Umart it is now $476, it went up from $415 to $476 in less than 4 months. An unlocked i5 back in 2013 was $270, now it is $360. My FX-8350 also went up in price, but by only $20. Why is that? Also motherboards such as the ASUS Z97 VII Hero went from $200 to $315 in less than 4 months - Oh geez! But everything outside of CPU and Motherboards did not change.

 

Is there any hope?!  :(

 

Strangely though AMD GPU pricing did not change at all. My old R9 270X back in 2013 I bought for $250 and it is still $250. My new R9 290 I bought around October last year is still the same price as today. And AMD CPU only went up in price marginally. Now I wished I didn't got the FX-8350 in the first place. I was planning to save up $600 for a new i7 + motherboard at the end of this year, but it looks like I have to add more money for this year to $750.

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Unfortunately Australia is the WORST country for PC components. They are endlessly going up in price. :L

I'm waiting for the next gen of intel CPUs to come out so the 4690K and 4790K will go down in price.

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It happened here as well although not to the same extent percentage wise, 4790k is already right around the $500 mark here :( .
 

 

Unfortunately Australia is the second worst country for PC components.

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Well, where i live if i try to order from an online retailer a 5960X costs 1400€ here :P instead of 1000... and a Titan X is 1455€ rather than 999€...

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Unfortunately Australia is the WORST country for PC components. They are endlessly going up in price. :L

I'm waiting for the next gen of intel CPUs to come out so the 4690K and 4790K will go down in price.

what's the worst? Africa?

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5960x was like 1390$ now its like 1430$

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Why don't these Australians realize their dollar isn't worth much at all compared to American dollars and Euros.

And no I'm not talking about the conversion rate only.

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The 5820K is now $550 here. Good luck building an X99 system under 1K.

 

I still plan to move out of this country. One day.

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Why don't these Australians realize their dollar isn't worth much at all compared to American dollars and Euros.

And no I'm not talking about the conversion rate only.

I said "If the Australian dollar keeps plummeting", so I do know that our dollar isn't worth that much as it once used to be when it was worth more than USD.

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Why don't these Australians realize their dollar isn't worth much at all compared to American dollars and Euros.

And no I'm not talking about the conversion rate only.

 

yeah we do know that, we are not all yobo's. However it's not a simply value v value.  The economics is not simple,  the cost of many items in Australia is not actually linked to the value of the dollar compared to the greenback or euro, and even when we do see a correlation it is only half of the story.  We also have what has kindly been coined the "fuck you Australia tax"  a percentage of profit that is simply added to cost of many products because we are a captive market and there are many excuses they can use to justify it (although they knew they were caught out when the government asked them to prove it, so they simply told the truth: "we charge as much as we think Aussies will pay")

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Well that $476 AUD currently converts to $371 USD and a 4690K from Newegg is $339 USD you can almost say that is fair due to how shitty our dollar is against the US. Still I wish it was all cheaper, I am pretty sure I paid around $210 for my Core i5 2500 in 2012 from MSY.

 

As much as I love this country of ours. Our tanking economy and poor job market really makes me loathe it, and it's only going to get worse before it gets better I guess :/

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The 5820K is now $550 here. Good luck building an X99 system under 1K.

 

I still plan to move out of this country. One day.

1000(ish)AUD:
 
CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($529.00 @ CPL Online) 
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme3 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($265.00 @ PLE Computers) 
Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($68.88 @ RamCity) 
Storage: OCZ ARC 100 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($125.00 @ Centre Com) 
Total: $1032.88
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-22 20:30 EST+1000
 
1000(ish)USD:
 
CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($372.95 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme3 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($154.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: OCZ ARC 100 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($96.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card  ($212.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: Cooler Master N400 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($53.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Total: $1005.78
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-22 06:37 EDT-0400
 
Couldn't really build a x99 system under either currency for $1000, but it's sad how little you get for 1000 AUD.

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1000(ish)AUD:
 
CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($529.00 @ CPL Online) 
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme3 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($265.00 @ PLE Computers) 
Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($68.88 @ RamCity) 
Storage: OCZ ARC 100 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($125.00 @ Centre Com) 
Total: $1032.88
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-22 20:30 EST+1000
 
1000(ish)USD:

 
CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($372.95 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme3 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($154.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: OCZ ARC 100 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($96.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card  ($212.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: Cooler Master N400 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($53.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Total: $1005.78
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-22 06:37 EDT-0400
 
Couldn't really build a x99 system under either currency for $1000, but it's sad how little you get for 1000 AUD.

 

I rather not have a $1000 X99 PC without a GPU and a case xD

EDIT: Oh both don't have a PSU either...

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I rather not have a $1000 X99 PC without a GPU and a case xD

LoL, just showing how far I'd get with $1000 AUD vs. USD.

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As someone who actually works in an Australian PC store, it is solely because of the falling Australian dollar. Synnex, Ingram Micro, Dicker Data, Bluechip - they all purchase from overseas at the US$ even when dealing with Asian suppliers. The issue is that our dollar is now worth pretty much nothing in comparison to what it was and thus their purchase price goes up and they pass that on to us, the retailers. Having said that though, some of the distributors certainly take a large markup.

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1000(ish)AUD:
 
CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($529.00 @ CPL Online) 
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme3 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($265.00 @ PLE Computers) 
Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($68.88 @ RamCity) 
Storage: OCZ ARC 100 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($125.00 @ Centre Com) 
Total: $1032.88
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-22 20:30 EST+1000
 
1000(ish)USD:

 
CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($372.95 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme3 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($154.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: OCZ ARC 100 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($96.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card  ($212.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: Cooler Master N400 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($53.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Total: $1005.78
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-22 06:37 EDT-0400
 
Couldn't really build a x99 system under either currency for $1000, but it's sad how little you get for 1000 AUD.

 

 

SO what your saying is, we can have one, if we are willing to go without the case, PSU, graphics cards and borderline not enough ram to game with?

Grammar and spelling is not indicative of intelligence/knowledge.  Not having the same opinion does not always mean lack of understanding.  

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As someone who actually works in an Australian PC store, it is solely because of the falling Australian dollar. Synnex, Ingram Micro, Dicker Data, Bluechip - they all purchase from overseas at the US$ even when dealing with Asian suppliers. The issue is that our dollar is now worth pretty much nothing in comparison to what it was and thus their purchase price goes up and they pass that on to us, the retailers. Having said that though, some of the distributors certainly take a large markup.

^Yep, exactly. That is what is going on in the Euro countries now too.

Prices are getting waaaay too high here now.. (not on all products, but most of them)

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SO what your saying is, we can have one, if we are willing to go without the case, PSU, graphics cards and borderline not enough ram to game with?

I suppose. It's more of a comparison between what you get for 1000 AUD vs 1000 USD. Both of which being incomplete systems, but 1000 AUD hardly buys you anything.

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As someone who actually works in an Australian PC store, it is solely because of the falling Australian dollar. Synnex, Ingram Micro, Dicker Data, Bluechip - they all purchase from overseas at the US$ even when dealing with Asian suppliers. The issue is that our dollar is now worth pretty much nothing in comparison to what it was and thus their purchase price goes up and they pass that on to us, the retailers. Having said that though, some of the distributors certainly take a large markup.

 

I've had a few show me links to the Asia market (particularly the Japanese yen).

Grammar and spelling is not indicative of intelligence/knowledge.  Not having the same opinion does not always mean lack of understanding.  

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CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($529.00 @ CPL Online) 


Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme3 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($265.00 @ PLE Computers) 


Storage: Crucial BX100 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($135.00 @ Umart) 


Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 290X 4GB Direct CU II Video Card  ($449.00 @ IJK) 

Case: Cooler Master N400 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($64.00 @ Mwave Australia) 

Power Supply: XFX XTR 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($165.00 @ PLE Computers) 

Total: $2004.00

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-22 20:49 EST+1000

 

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CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($372.95 @ SuperBiiz) 


Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme3 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($154.99 @ Newegg) 


Storage: Crucial BX100 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($94.99 @ Amazon) 


Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 290X 4GB Direct CU II Video Card  ($372.98 @ Newegg) 

Case: Cooler Master N400 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($53.99 @ SuperBiiz) 


Total: $1423.25

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-22 06:49 EDT-0400

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Cooler: CM Hyper 212 Evo                                                  Storage: Intel 730 SSD                                                                                                            PSU: EVGA 850G2

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Hey, not just you...... Here in Indonesia, Intel CPU price is getting more ridiculous as well.....

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Hey, not just you...... Here in Indonesia, Intel CPU price is getting more ridiculous as well.....

I wish I can change the thread title to "Intel CPU is getting more expensive here in Australia and everywhere else except 'Murica"

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I wish I can change the thread title to "Intel CPU is getting more expensive here in Australia and everywhere else except 'Murica"

I envy U.S. price..... But hey, we can't just move just because of that  :P

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