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Posted by Crono on Wed Jun 22nd at 6:36am 2005

Me too. Let's save you some money.

However, it was just an example. I'm sure there are places that ship internationally with low prices.


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Posted by Agent Smith on Wed Jun 22nd at 6:45am 2005

Had a look at some pricings for postage from the US to Australia via Fedex and USPS, the cheapest price is about $20 Aus (10 days to deliver), getting up to $50-60 Aus (2-3 days to deliver). Not very cheap posting parcels internationally.

Appreciate the help Crono, by the way.



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Posted by Crono on Wed Jun 22nd at 7:23am 2005

Because shipping stuff by air is more expensive. They need to build a bridge to all the nations and use Europe as a hub.

$20 AUS/ $10 USD isn't too bad. I've had to pay $12 (about $23 AUS) to ship packages through USPS ground before. They're becoming bastards and charging by distance too. Which, to be honest, is retarded since they govern the postal system across the entire US. But, that doesn't effect you.


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Posted by Agent Smith on Wed Jun 22nd at 7:28am 2005

The eVGA card is a really good deal, comming in around $30-40 cheaper than the one I'm looking at getting. Of course the eVGA and the Prolink Pixelview cards both look EXACTLY the same. If you put them next to each other you probably wouldn't be able to tell them apart, if you ignored the tiny logo on the fan hub. Go figure.





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Posted by Crono on Wed Jun 22nd at 7:40am 2005

Well. I have no idea how they stand up to the test of time. I can vouch for MSI (Current card I have is a MSI GF4 Ti4200, it's been a great card for the last two/three years, BF2 is pretty much the only thing I can't run.) and, as much as I hate them, ASUS when regarding video cards. A friend of mine has a ASUS GF3 and it's still running well. It met its match about the time Far Cry came out.

I bet, if they're significantly cheaper they use a lower grade metal for the circuits. However, taking the price of some video cards, I'd expect them to be wired (completely) with Gold.

It's up to you, but I'd say rough it out for another couple weeks. The prices are still coming down. On that site two weeks ago they had the MSI NX6800 Ultra PCI-E at $520, on Sunday it was $489, today it's $469. (By the way, I keep mentioning that card, because it's the one I want. If you were wondering)
I bet the Ultra cards will be down to the $300 mark in a few months. But, you want one now <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">

Hardware shopping is really tricky if you're unfamiliar with the brand. Since you have NO idea how it will perform. Not to mention you'll almost always find a review suggesting whatever it may be.

Anyway, I'll stop filling up your thread.


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Posted by Agent Smith on Wed Jun 22nd at 12:44pm 2005

Here's the link to the sale:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3762&item=5210069955&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

None of you people better snatch the last few away.



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Posted by Agent Smith on Wed Jun 22nd at 2:07pm 2005

The problem is virtually all online stores based in the US do not ship internationally, which explains why the cheapest prices for the same hardware here in Australia are up to and over $200 more than the US price. The sellers over here know they have the market to themselves, and will only drop their price slightly below the recommended retail price. Bastards.



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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Jun 22nd at 2:41pm 2005

? quoting Agent Smith
The problem is virtually all online stores based in the US do not ship internationally,

If you could trust that the card was the one you wanted, and was not gonna bork on you, I would buy one here and ship it your way.. I imagine that the shipping would be far less than the mark up you are forced to pay.

Worth thinking on bud. :/





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Posted by Crono on Wed Jun 22nd at 7:27pm 2005

Snatch the last few?! They have 213 remaining.

I was thinking that too, Orph. It'd be worth a shot. You have to remember, with most respectable products you can get a warrenty through the manufactuer. In a lot of cases it's a three year warrenty too. Lesser priced cards can't do that, obviously, because you're not paying for the repair bill in case something happens.


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Posted by Agent Smith on Thu Jun 23rd at 1:35am 2005

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814125143

This is the one I'd buy if they would ship it here. And its not an OEM copy either which is the best cause I can't live without box graphics <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">.

What do you mean 213 left, they only had 7 left last time I looked, that was how many they started with.



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Posted by Crono on Thu Jun 23rd at 9:46pm 2005

Perhaps in the auction, but the store they're getting them from has several.

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In Stock: 213 in stock



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Posted by Agent Smith on Sun Jul 17th at 2:19pm 2005

Just an update, ended up getting a MSI 6600GT 128mb AGP the other day. I couldn't really afford anything bigger, and I figured that within 6-12 months I should be in full-time employ, so will be able to build the beast of a machine I want. It cost me $270 Australian, about $200 US. It can run BF2 with all medium settings at the moment, and once I've overclocked my CPU (P4 2.8c HT) I should be able to squeeze a bit more juice out. Not to mention the MSI card comes with a built in overclock system, giving an extra 10% performance.



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Posted by Crono on Sun Jul 17th at 7:31pm 2005

Don't overclock anything, you wont get a noticable difference. Seriously. Especially not with the CPU, it's idling most of the time anyway. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif">

But, that's a pretty good deal. Sadly you only plan on letting it last you a year, in which case the only hindering factor on it is that it's AGP and 128 MB, which isn't too bad, but you'd probably gotten more "bang" if you got a 256 MB card, more memory = less texture compression and farther draw distance.


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