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Get your prices from Danawa, not Gmarket.
691 for the Zotac
http://blog.danawa.com/prod/?prod_c=1122408&cate_c1=861&cate_c2=876&cate_c3=972&cate_c4=

Still $620.
but only a 25% price difference.

Rampage 3
http://blog.danawa.com/prod/?prod_c=1050783&cate_c1=861&cate_c2=875&cate_c3=968&cate_c4=
572 about $513
still a big difference but a little less dramatic, only 40%

if you're going to compare the rock bottom newegg with a price here, compare it with the right source.

but yes, enthusiast items will still be cheaper in the US, but not necessarily cheaper than Canada or say the UK as they often get hosed on prices.

Also keep in mind that these prices may come from a time when the exchange wasn't as good and are still riding high.
Were the exchange at 1400 or 1500 instead of 1100. These prices would look a heck of a lot better.

in Canada for a long time after the dollar hit parity we were screwed on books. Books were typically priced something like $10.99CAD/$7.99 USD.
Great when the canadian dollar was at 60 cents. When the dollar hit parity it took them the better part of a year before prices corrected.

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Good find on the AMP price, still crazy though.

For motherboard, aside from the socket, the upgrading I'm talking about is more like adding a 2nd GPU.

example:
My first i7 build in Korea I bought an Asus P6TSE. The price was good but I didn't read the small the print. It was crossfire ready, but had no SLI support. Sadness ensued as I'm a nvidia fan.

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I edited my previous post with prices pulled from Danawa. I'm also an NVidia fan.

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Wow, go for it then. Good luck with "Colorful"

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The cheapest Danawa price means nothing.....those guys are phishing. I've bought 3 graphics cards in the last 3 years and each time my wife and I put the order in they call back in a day or two to say its out of stock but would you like this crappy model instead.

I'd go with the Gmarket price.

They do indeed gouge here for anything higher than mainstream......the Korean business model being that those things you sell very few of should be sold with a high margin to make up for few units sold.

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You only have to dial in the GTX480 on the main Danawa VGA page to see that the prices are all over the place.

There's a Colorful GTX480 there for 381,000!! I'd like to see anyone try to place an order for that.....it just won't be there.

The well known brand GTX480's are an average of 600,000 all the way up to 800,000 +........that's the true price of a GTX480 in Korea.....believe me....that's what you'll end up having to pay if you really want a GTX480.

I'd expect low-profile brands like Colorful to be 50,000 or so cheaper than the well-known brands. But more than 220,000 cheaper???

How do you explain that?

It looks like bait and switch tactics to me..........and I wouldn't put it past any of the online sellers to do it...Gmarket, Auction, Enuri....whoever.

Sometimes they do it, sometimes they don't.