
It finally arrived. (25 characters)
Sharing my little secret. Stumbled upon a fairly recent reddit post talking about how cheap AMD GPUs were in Japan cuz everyone there seems to be Nvidia brained. Checked out Amazon Japan and, lo and behold, totoo nga.
Purchased this nung Amazon JP Prime day (July 10-13) for around 94800 JPY, which, at the time of purchase, was roughly 36k PHP. Had it shipped to PH via freight forwarder (KangoExpress) for another P2k PHP, rounding out the total to around 38K PHP.
May sales tax na yan (had it shipped to a warehouse within Japan kasi). Tax free price was even less, mga 85k JPY lang, or around 32k PHP.
Locally, the same GPU costs around 49-52k PHP.
If youre ever in Japan and in need of PC hardware, I highly suggest that you check out the PC hardware stores over there. Highly recommend Tsukumo PC Honten in Akihabara.
Will install the GPU tonight. Hopefully everything works out well.
UPDATE:
So far so good. GPU is running flawlessly. Hope this keeps up long term.