Yeah, we do pay far more than US pricing here. I just wish there were some US stores that would ship to Australia. Can't really be that hard can it?

Heck, I'll buy from overseas to get lower pricing. eBay isn't really an option though, anything on there has inflated prices when it comes to computer components.

For the most part you are right. Thanks to shipping + low population + crappy exchange rate, prices are rarely cheaper than anything in the US.

I have seen a few things that are cheaper though, not much though

It seems odd that we still talk about cache (and RAM) in terms of byte, should we not now that we've had 16 to 64 bit computers for ages start to use the term MW, megaword (a word being 16bit) at least? or MLW mega long word even.


Australian pricing NEVER equates to American pricing. I'm sure our Aussie friends will be along soon to elaborate. They pay far more for electronic goods than we do.

Austin computers seem to be setting themselves up with a nice reputation for bait'n'switch here in Aus.
A rather large number of their components happen to be priced at 10-20% cheaper than the next best price, even though they're all the way over in W.A. (meaning they pay a lot of shipping just to get stock themselves.) 
They happily accept your order, immediately place the item on "back order" and then eventually refund you when you start asking for an ETA. 
The items then usually get delisted for a while, but then reappear with much higher values.
I don't see what the point of getting clickthroughs from Static Ice is when you don't have stock, don't intend to supply it at the advertised price and will not respond to ETA requests for orders made on the (bogus) price advertised. Bizarre. Perhaps they just haven't noticed that clicks != purchases yet.

Copycat? You must mean Intel, right?

yes it looks expensive but if you add the motherboard or NO motherboard price (will work in current AM2/AM2+) and take off 20%-30% the price (aka diffrent etailers pricewars) it will be alot cheaper than Core i7 920+X58

I was considering the Phenom II's but they've just clean priced me out from buying these. Considering pricing I think Intel CPU's are my best option right now. Ah well, my last 4 systems have been AMD, time for a change.

but in Phenom II case, we won't have to spend "extra" money on x58 board and triple channel DDR3 kit. tough money in this recession. I'll just have to ebay the toasty 6000+ and put a Deneb in, enjoy a decent overclock while cruising on 8GB of 1066 corsair. it's fast enough for most people