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GPU & Memory Prices in Taiwan vs. US

2018-06-03
everyone we're here at guano ha digital Plaza we were here last year actually at Computex 2017 back there's a lot of really cool stuff here so PC components home of it's actually better prices then in the US tell them it's much worse and then there's also a lot of small SMDs lots of test equipment all kinds of stuff so we're gonna just look around and see a couple that we have a couple of objectives today one of them can we find a GPU at MSRP and if not what's the closest heartbeat that we can get and the second objective thing where you look around for memory 2 is here we can find for ddr4 prices if we can beat us price you know typically Taiwan does not have better prices than in the US just because the markets smaller but given the oddity of the market right now particularly in the US for ddr4 seems like a good bet to try and look around to buy and then also finally see we can find any weird components while we're here so we're gonna start with a shop behind me they have a couple of GPUs I'm just gonna go ask them how much for one of on point one out and see what it comes out to and USD before that this video is brought to you by thermal grizzlies high-end thermal paste and liquid metal thermal grizzlies cryo knot is an affordable high quality thermal compound that doesn't face some of the aging limitations of other pastes on the market cryo knot has a thermal conductivity of 12.5 watts per meter Kelvin focuses on endurance is easy to spread and isn't electrically conductive making it safe to use on GPU dies thermal grizzly also makes conductor not liquid metal which we've used to drop 20 degrees off some temperatures than our dee-lighted tests by a tube at the link in the description below who has a chin one joke do Xiao Chen 583 90 okay so 391 for rx 588 gigabyte what about jeka yeah so there's one 1063 gigabyte here we while we've seen some 1063 gigabytes for like 220 for us and then there's one here for like two Aiden yeah 285 ish it's about a sixty dollar difference supposed to be like two hundred versus 250 really not bad considering we're in Taiwan for one and the mine and stuff so I don't know if that's because mine is starting to wane a bit and come down and so the prices are lower but yeah 285 not terrible considering the baseline for three gigabytes to 24 it's really not bad rx5 80s kind of rough at like 400 bucks for an RX 580 and i guess i should ask about vega 56 as well maybe dou xiao qian gu Shirley Oh 580 man 580 dollars okay little Steve okay take a left that's okay yes yes yes yeah yeah no Neha yeah oh sorry live in Taiwan no visiting visiting yeah come from us us us a video card what about what's your cheapest 1066 gigabyte sixty six six okay okay okay sure yeah why not came in do you get a lot of mine in here yeah a lot of people there really yeah more mining or more gaming more gaming yeah okay this worried than 9400 okay I need to see how much in the US okay you said nine thousand three hundred so two hundred two hundred eighty five USD yeah okay 25 USD not that do you have a 5 gigabyte by people yeah okay only China yeah yeah how much for Vega 56 okay nineteen thousand okay 33 525 okay it's a lot man still high yeah yeah just hopped into shops of GPUs and they're next to each other exact same prices so to 84 84 us for 1066 see a bite and 520 5.75 us for Vega 56 and each store so I know all the places here work with each other someone compete but either really fierce competition or they're working together same prices though nothing too spectacular yet sadly so we're gonna look around some more we will find like a 1063 gateway for a bit cheaper or something like that that's a start so far not a lot of luck so first two shops basically same prices 1060 and Vega 56 no check one more and see what we can get for a 1050 or 1050 TI or something like that so 1050 supposed to be like a hundred bucks u.s. 780ti supposed to be like 140 150 US but we'll see ya turn into $87 turn in eighty eight hundred dollars more than it should be but okay okay wait so two hundred eighty-eight dollars let's see what are they in the US for five seventy that'd be nice so rx 570 Amazon is $320 US and it was 280 yes that's like the best one we've seen so far 320 verse 280 so about 40 dollars cheaper for an Rx 570 here a gigabyte it was an msi armor to fan card and that's a Polaris card Amazon selling the same card right now for $320 you ask so it's actually not bad should just bring a bunch back and sell them so how much is it flight yeah so we need to do is start a video card smuggling operation oh also I asked some of the vendors what's were popular mining or gaming and so far everyone said gaming I don't know if they're just if not but it sounds like gaming sales more we didn't see one street vendor that will be in this video somewhere that had mining operations so they pre build the mine set up for you 12 video cards all are x5 80s and 1300 watt power supply and that was like six grand six thousand dollars you asked for that so mine is still pretty popular but anyway look at a few more so let's look at like our exes still like a 1060 or rx 580 or something what are these brands I don't know they could be aces could be M aside 392 what card is that 1066 gear bite yes yeah 1066 gigabyte $392 not retail price quite quite far from retail price not even like Taiwan retail price 224 that's really good is this a free gigabyte so I'm only like $20 too much really that's pretty good that's good not to bring home yeah where's the RX cards 8 gigabyte card or that way but Thunderbolt so is it is it an external card I don't know that's an external card either way that's $603 and of course the external is the same as internal only difference is it doesn't come with a dock or not if it does that's a bit different 50 they're like no AMD cards here XG station 1070 TI tonight on API 1070 1080i 1070 1080i where the 1080p is oh my god 1080i a thousand three dollars rx 470 11,000 so that's gonna be 300 something that's way too high that should be a even in Taiwan that should be way cheaper so okay so we have a shop that's actually laid out all the prices vertically which is really nice so I'm going to go through a couple and we'll just convert it to USD by dividing by 33 so let's start at I don't know 1080i 1080i armours for MSI 1080i 28 500 by 33 so 863 you it's actually not bad considering video card prices lately this is also roughly the same that's coming around eight hundred sixteen seventy dollars and that's the gaming MSI models so let me get about gaming let's check at 10:50 T I haven't seen one of those yet 1050 TI 4 gigabyte gaming MSI 6890 actually you know what we can go a bit cheaper for gigabyte non-gaming I think that's the cheapest one they have on the board here so that's 60 190 and that is going to be 188 us that's kind of rough actually that one's not so great I'd like to see that about $30 lower but for Taiwan though keep keep in mind I think a lot of people think prices here are way cheaper than the US but the tacks are not true even when there's not mining so in fact we found anything cheaper than the US is pretty surprising for the 1080 is going to be $636 us again not terrible should be 500 if we're at MSRP in the USA but in Taiwan it's gonna be a bit higher anyway money gives you a bit of a premium so I don't know gives you a rough idea 636 for that one and then let's look GT that should say GT 1030 not GTX 1030 way up there at the top so GT 10:30 not GTX 3 gigabyte and don't know what the model is those really mad at all the same actually except for ddr4 ones hopefully that's how it that is 2890 for that one $87 actually pretty good that's actually better than the last GT 1030 prices I saw in the US because last time I checked GT 1030 prices they were skyrocketing they were like a hundred bucks u.s. so the fact that this one is 88 it's not bad because I'm started P on GT 1030 is about 70 bucks I don't know if it's ddr4 I really doubt it because it's still brand new but not bad actually for that price I see a couple of other things they have here so maybe we can check some of the CPU prices let's take a look at those see if those are any different 7700 k i7 so that's ten thousand three hundred NTD which comes out to $312 actually not bad it's roughly the same as in the u.s. if not a bit better so really again battle now ng 5632 hundred divided by three that one is 96 that's kind of the steeper so it's actually not bad either so what about ret rise in parts we have no 26-hour 2600 ax right there so 2600 seems $700 that one $203 I must basically what I'm getting here CPUs are at MSRP even US MSRP is based to the same prices even after the fact that the work we're not in the US other parts is there a memories you see any memory on the board okay ddr4 so ddr4 HyperX there's one a HyperX kit from kingston eight gigabytes 26:50 and that one is going to be $80 us we don't know the frequency of Oh twenty four hundred eight gigabyte 2400 so that comes out to eighty dollars which is actually if it's dual-stick is really good sadly oh you see all this mining stuff oh whoa Wow so this shop is actually mining no it's not active it's not out there selling yes so you think they sell like the entire thinner just like the asset demo probably like made-to-order all right water okay so if if we want if we want to order one $95,000 I come out to top grant one ninety five thousand it's no 33 right yes dollars thirty three five thousand nine hundred so you get the whole the whole rack for five thousand nine hundred with yeah what 85 85 80 so twelve cards twelve cards five eighties 1300 watt power supply good memory oh Claire I thought clef died chain 1 dou xiao qian bao 68 US dollars 8 gigabytes 2,400 is that single stick or that is that - 686 dollars for this one yeah this is sick this is 68 no but it doesn't need it this is ddr4 Wow it's actually a good div eighty dollars versus 94 from new eggs yeah 9406 94 dollars in the US for one stick is 90 96 in the US and she's 105 for a cake 2400 which is insane and then here it's 80 ya know like anybody who comes to copy sex yeah yeah if you need it now like you're gonna go home and build a pill system or whatever that's not bad actually I hate to like walk in and like ask all these questions and then not buy anything it's kind of rude but whatever they ask okay so that's punch the prices at Guan ha dinner'll Plaza here in Taiwan really not best CPUs are more or less MSRP even in the u.s. prices GP is still a little bit of over MSRP given the circumstances that's to be expected some of them are cheaper than we could find in the u.s. most of them are a bit more and price gaps are roughly equivalent to what they should be it's just they're all offset upwards to account for mining prices shortages stuff like that memory prices are so far I haven't looked too hard okay so I haven't spent a lot of just looking at Amazon my phone right now so far some of the memory tends to be a little bit cheaper here than in the u.s. prices just checking versus Amazon so if I could get an affiliate link to this place and post it below I've been to that but otherwise I don't know we'll see if if any of this price trend comes over to the US but some of you have told us in the comments that our memory prices are crazier than yours and I guess now I've seen that for example G view prices kind of soso demand where you learn so that's a plaza thank you for watching as always go to patreon.com/scishow sexist helps out directly gonna store like every sex it's not net to pick up one of our mod mats and i'll see you all next time
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