Gfx card purchase advice

[Drz88]

Hi all, I've read that graphics cards are expensive atm.

I'm going to the US soon, will buying one from there be cheaper (near to the MRSP) ? Thanks in advance.

 

[watzup_ken]

Graphic card prices locally are still on the decline. So you should compare prices before buying from US, since other than the likes of EVGA, almost all other brand don’t have international warranty. In short if something goes wrong with the card, you will need to send it back to US service Center for RMA. It is worth doing this if the savings are substantial.

 

[obichacha]

anyway can visit to micro center outlet, there is a plentry of new gpu's out there.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/microcenter
Do compare with local shopee and lazada and currency exchange, whichever is cheaper.

 

[Drz88]

Thanks for the replies.

I forgot about the international warranty aspect. I will do a price check first.

 

[BlackEarth91]

I was in the US in December. Went to the microcenter over at Brooklyn, I was enquiring about the Asus TUF RTX 3070TI there, they weren't too keen on selling me the set since they needed a registered address during the purchase.

Hopefuy you might have a different experience, prices do differ from SG's price down by about 80 USD, but the absence of warranty is probably not worth the risk


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[tohwk]

I was in the US in December. Went to the microcenter over at Brooklyn, I was enquiring about the Asus TUF RTX 3070TI there, they weren't too keen on selling me the set since they needed a registered address during the purchase.

Hopefuy you might have a different experience, prices do differ from SG's price down by about 80 USD, but the absence of warranty is probably not worth the risk


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Agreed. Thanks for this info.

 

[xonix]

I was in the US in December. Went to the microcenter over at Brooklyn, I was enquiring about the Asus TUF RTX 3070TI there, they weren't too keen on selling me the set since they needed a registered address during the purchase.

Hopefuy you might have a different experience, prices do differ from SG's price down by about 80 USD, but the absence of warranty is probably not worth the risk


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Why do they need an address if it was a walk in purchase ?

 

[Goodshot]

Why do they need an address if it was an walk in purchase ?

Probably they don't wanna sell to China miner

 

[NightRaven49]

Why do they need an address if it was an walk in purchase ?

to limit the number of people scalping. if u were just a regular casual pc builder, chances are that u dont even need more than 1 or 2 gpus a year. the primary reason nowadays someone would buy more than that is to scalp them, and some franchises at least have some mitigation measures like this one in place.