The way the stock exchange is atm I'm not surprised us Aussies are being taken for a drive up to anal point for imported goods like these, but those prices you mentioned stewart are just insane. No doubt the fact that it's a very new, and atm rare product is having an effect on those prices, it should stabalise over the next month or two when supply increases.

Anyway looking at the UK/US prices, how could you convince your self to buy anything other than the 920? For bother the additional chips your paying just under double the price of the previous SKU for an extra ~300Mhz, wowzors.

What about tiger direct? I got an e-mail directing me to their site showing it for sale.

Extensive searching will find it there with the 920 priced at $329.99, 940 $649.99 and 965 extreme at $1066.99.

I still think this extreme bull is a rip-off when you pay $500 more for a multiplier... b***** off on that one.

NCIX.com has them listed for us Canucks now too.
The i7's, X58's, and new DDR3 kits. $386, $775, and $1340 for the CPUs.

Sounds like the 'Great British Rip-Off' is in full effect yet again.

Pity none of the US e-tailers ship over here.

Conspiracy?

Oz just got them too all 3 flavors are available 
prices are (from a warehouse type pricelist, not retail from Harvey Norman) 
920 is $595
940 is $1114
extreme is $2599

I thought the days were over where both intel and amd stopped trying to bend over the consumer and do something in a very uncomfortable place (like in the back of a Volkswagen)

AMD seem to have it sorted, they have been selling the black edition cpus at very reasonable prices I can only hope that continues even with shanghai. 

But clearly Intel thinks it can charge what it wants, and this is the exact same thing that happened with high end P4's back in the day, amd had a product that could compete with it but at the 1/3 the price, and this is what got AMD's ball rolling. Hopefully AMD can run with this and keep it going with Shanghai, I can only hope that it is good enough for me to get rid of my Core 2 platform and return to my roots AMD