Cards from different countries?

[donone]

Is there any difference say between a 6800GT from japan and australia?

power ratings etc?

 

[priyajeet]

nope.

Most of cards in the US/europe etc are manufacturered in Asia (malaysia/taiwan/china). They all work here fine. Internally computer guys go according to ISO specs. externally its upto ur PSU.

 

[Dew]

The only difference might be the tv-out, it might default to that countries standard, or it maygo according to your region settings. Either way it wont make a difference in the actual usability.

 

[priyajeet]

oh yeah i forgot that. u might wanto chk NTSC or PAL support in ur region and buy card that supports ur version.

 

[Sly]

Doesn't it also affect the components? Like why bother paying import taxes when there's a capacitor/DDRmemory factory just over in the next city?

 

[chrisf6969]

Doesn't it also affect the components? Like why bother paying import taxes when there's a capacitor/DDRmemory factory just over in the next city?

Not likely.

 

[Sly]

Not likely.

What are the factors that affect where they get their components from? I thought they use whatever decent component manufacturer is available locally or import from the closest decent one to cut down on cost.

 

[donone]

its just hardware in australia is a fucken rip off and i am going to japan early next year.

so if i can pick up a nice card cheapa cheapa it would be good