Quote Originally Posted by Macadamia View Post
That's BS IMO, retroactive pricecuts normally affect only the US+EU. Live elsewhere, you're rather ed. 470s sell for 330USD here btw, ridiculous.

There's a reason why most people here prefer AMD's consistent MSRP strategy: for countries that have distributor-chain methods it's way more stable and predictable, your card won't devalue nor will you buy it at crazy prices.

Just because Americans have the loudest mouths on forums/reviews doesn't mean that anyone else should get such a big pricing difference.


However I don't think the 580 will go for that high anyway. Most likely 499.
well this is true but I live in Canada and prices seem to move in accordance with the market (US) pretty good. one thing I have noticed about the Canadian Market however is that ATI cards tend to be priced higher then they should given the strength of our dollar ATM were as the nvidia cards tend to be a better bargain. For example your average 6870 is about 250CAD but a GTX 470 is 265CAD and given the overclocking performance of the GTX 470, as long as you have any half decent power supply then the 470 is a pretty obvious choice...