Should I go for it or not?

[Tatty_Two]

Nowhere nearly as cheap in Europe.

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[TheLostSwede]

You think that's expensive, try this in the UK ……..

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[xrror]

Nowhere nearly as cheap in Europe.

You think that's expensive, try this in the UK …….

Yea it's always a downer how much more expensive PC stuff is elsewhere in the world, because it makes much of the build advice from U.S. builders not really helpful.

It also never made sense that the U.S. market seems cheaper than even the Asia market. Like huh? You'd think Asian prices would be lower because most stuff is made there. Or maybe it's just that the fun grey/gray market stuff isn't as visible to english internet. Hrmm....

I mean, at least you're not in Australia - it seems like they really get the shaft price wise.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Yea it's always a downer how much more expensive PC stuff is elsewhere in the world, because it makes much of the build advice from U.S. builders not really helpful.

It also never made sense that the U.S. market seems cheaper than even the Asia market. Like huh? You'd think Asian prices would be lower because most stuff is made there. Or maybe it's just that the fun grey/gray market stuff isn't as visible to english internet. Hrmm....

I mean, at least you're not in Australia - it seems like they really get the shaft price wise.

Part of that is because demand and supply. Part of it is because US prices never includes sales tax. It still doesn't quite help explain it.
Then again, some things are much cheaper in Sweden with 25% VAT/sales tax, compared to Taiwan, where it's only 5% VAT.
That said, motherboards, which are still mainly made in Taiwan, are more in Taiwan than in the US, which makes no sense at all. Graphics and SSDs cards too for that matter, although the latter not by too much. RAM can be close in terms of costs, but CPUs are always about 20-40% more expensive in Taiwan compared to the US. It clearly has nothing to do with shipping costs...

 

[Flanker]

@OP
In my experience, incremental updates never satisfied my upgrade itch, and only made it worse. Always ended up spending more money in the long run. My best upgrades are complete overhauls.

Yea it's always a downer how much more expensive PC stuff is elsewhere in the world, because it makes much of the build advice from U.S. builders not really helpful.

It also never made sense that the U.S. market seems cheaper than even the Asia market. Like huh? You'd think Asian prices would be lower because most stuff is made there. Or maybe it's just that the fun grey/gray market stuff isn't as visible to english internet. Hrmm....

I mean, at least you're not in Australia - it seems like they really get the shaft price wise.

New Zealand prices are even worse when I lived there. Prices in China are pretty expensive unless it's from a Chinese brand, or of some model exclusive to the Chinese market, neither of which I cared enough to experiment. Bought my PC in Taiwan and carried it all the way to China lol.

 

[xrror]

@ Devon68 - So where are some online stores you'd like to buy from and/or are accessible to you?
It's a roundabout way to ask where you live without totally DOXing yourself lol

But that way we can also figure out what pricing is available in your area.

 

[Bill_Bright]

It also never made sense that the U.S. market seems cheaper than even the Asia market.

It makes total sense. It's all about volume and competition. If I, as a retailer or big factory PC maker promise AMD or Intel to buy 1,000,000 units during the next 12 months, then I can demand get those units cheaper than another guy who can only promise to move 50,000 units.

And if I as a retailer, want the sell, I need to price these units the same or lower than NewEgg or Walmart - who is doing the same with me.

This is why me, as an independent custom PC builder, tell my clients I can't beat Dell or HP in prices. I can't buy 1 million motherboards, 1 million CPUs, 1 million cases, 1 million sticks of RAM, 1 million power supplies. I lucky if my client wants 3 computers. Typically, I build one at a time.

Another problem (perhaps a really big problem) with prices in some parts of the world is the costs for all the bribes and lining of pockets needed to get a pallet of products from point A to point B intact and in any sort of timely manner.

Bribes are probably not a problem once that pallet gets to the docks in NZ or Australia, or England. But they may have been a problem all the way up to getting that pallet loaded on to the cargo ship heading to those countries.

 

[Devon68]

So where are some online stores you'd like to buy from and/or are accessible to you?
It's a roundabout way to ask where you live without totally DOXing yourself lol

But that way we can also figure out what pricing is available in your area.

I would not get them from a shop since the final price would be about 100-150 euros more.
Recently I've been browsing this site:

KupujemProdajem

I'm from Serbia. Many of the items on this site are cheaper than in stores, but they still come with a warranty. The only difference is that most of them are imports form Hungary, but since all the borders are closed we can expect inflated prices in the up coming month. But by the time I get the money together the prices should get back to normal.

 

[tussinman]

a GTX 1060 6GB for another 120$.

That's a good price. Even with your dated CPU a 1060 upgrade should still offer a solid 40-50% performance boost.

You could get the 1060 now, enjoy the performance boost, and if you want to do a partial upgrade next year (CPU + Motherboard + ram and then re-use all the other parts) the 1060 will still be a solid 1080p card