I will go for brands or colour only if all these brands are similar in price and similar in perceived quality . But for some brand like Sapphire for AMD/ATi; Leadtek for Nvidia, they are very less advertised (especially for leadtek,I rarely see anyone using this brand as review subject since GTX 700; Sapphire enjoy very nice review though, especially for their superb GPU cooler). for these brand I just don't know if I should choose them against the major brand which are significantly more expensive. This kind of dilemma always appearing when I did anykind of upgrade (such as, dilemma btw AMD FX 8350 or i5 4670K when I build my current rig, while my 7870 came from my previous rig which was a Core 2 Quad Q9440). For the past, I will always go for the price (thats why I might always choose sapphire for AMD card, and this brand enjoys good review), but now I don't know. As I have never set my eye on nvidia before as past gen AMD card just too good in CP value.

company who made 500k revenue annually = must register GST so can charge customers 6% to claim back the 6% which u pay to the supplier when ur supplier sell you the goods.
company who not register GST = they cannot charge 6% on invoice so cannot claim back the GST by supplier. this kind of company normally will markup higher to cover back the 6%.

example:
distributors sell Company A (GST) and B (non GST register company) the product with cost RM100 + 6% GST = RM106
Company A sell RM130+6% = RM137.80 to end users (Najib collect RM7.80-RM6 =RM1.80 from company A)
*get profit RM30
Company B sell RM130 to end users (he cannot back the GST charge by supplier)
*get profit RM24 (RM130-RM106) if he want to sell at same price.

these are just basic for the GST theory. the only affected the market is the SRP will increase from RM130 to RM137.80.
alot of things now we pay with Service tax, the service tax will change the name to GST so the price remain the same (KFC, etcs)

now, computer products price up, not becoz of GST, but the currency exchange rate. u can imagine the rate is raise up from RM3.1 to RM3.65 (highest is RM3.7) - look at the Selling TT/OD column
http://www.maybank2u.com.my/mbbfrx/f_foreign_exchange.htm

Malaysia doesn't produce computer parts, all import from oversea, even the Dell manufacture in Penang import the parts from oversea but assembly local.

Fluctuations in exchange rates (to higher) will benefits if export. if rate drop to lower then it will benefits if import.
exmple USD250 for a GTX960, the reasonable price is RM775, but due to the currency exchange rate now, the price became RM900 something.

another good things for GST is, the sales tax changed to 6% from 10%. when you do import, not every items will get 10% sales tax and 10% import tax, i know powersupply, casing, cooler got sales tax, others i not sure.
so some of the computer products "maybe" will cheaper. During the GST period, all the expenses like transport fees also has 6% so we cannot assume all price will cheaper 4%.

HMm.. my humble opinion when buying Gpu (don't go for brands/Color unless your Shallow like me ) First Warranties ! more the better(Zotac i heards give 5 year? if choose Nvidia) Cooling this you need to do some Research go read 2-3 review not focus on single review... go youtube watch video review...  Know what PSU requirement and Length of the GPU cards... will it fit into case...

WHEN Sapphire R9 380X is out i swear no matter PRICE (of course i ask discount!! haha)  i WILL BUY IF YOUR shop SELL 

Haha, Royal A fan spotted. 
After april, Those RM2k range GC card are harder to afford... 

Despite the recent release of GTX 960, R9 285 is still the best performance-to-price card out there.

Despite the recent release of GTX 960, R9 285 is still the best performance-to-price card out there.

Nah, R9-290 Tri-X is only RM1159 now. For 30% more money u get almost 40%-50% more performance compare to 285.

Too close to a 290X Lightning... RM1239 only...

Got 2 types of Lightning:-

1030MHZ Lite version
1080MHZ Full version

Which version is RM1239?

Got any source to this? So far I only seem to find the 1080MHz version in their website.

Got any source to this? So far I only seem to find the 1080MHz version in their website.

He's right, got 2 version.

1. MSI R9 290X Lightning LE
2. MSI R9 290X Lightning

Too close to a 290X Lightning... RM1239 only...

He's right, got 2 version.

1. MSI R9 290X Lightning LE
2. MSI R9 290X Lightning

By the gods, it is true then. Anyway, I do not think a mere 50MHz makes much difference since these beasts are made to be overclocked anyway.

Got 2 types of Lightning:-

1030MHZ Lite version
1080MHZ Full version

Which version is RM1239?