First and foremost our guide consist of parts purchase directly from the USA and if you are concern about your warranty than this might not be the best way for you. Some brands have an international warranty and some does not so do take that in mind.

Sim Lim Vs Amazon

Sim Lim has always been the first that comes to our mind when comes to custom build PC but they are not always the cheapest when comes to computer component. We have noticed a significant discount over various parts which I will explain later on in the article.

Do note that if you purchase anything more than SGD $400 dollars from Amazon or Newegg you are subjected to 7% GST and our guide has taken that into consideration.

If you are looking to save a couple of hundreds and around 10 – 30% off your build do read on for the price comparison. Our price comparison will be taken from Sim Lim Square notable shops like Fuwell, Bizgram and Cybermind.

Buying the cheapest component online requires a lot of price comparison and we have done that you for so you will not have to do all the hardworking.

Amazon Prime members sometimes have unbelievable special discounts, free shipping and you can leverage on it. Click here or the banner to get the free 30 days Amazon Prime!

CPU and Motherboard

With AMD releasing their new 2nd Gen Ryzen CPU the 3000 series and with competitive price with the best bank for buck our recommended build will be based on the Ryzen architecture.

CPU has less discount when purchasing it on Amazon or Newegg. It depends on which CPU and Motherboard you decide to buy. Do note that purchasing over SGD$400/- in a single cart will result in paying Singapore GST of 7% so bear in mind to purchase the unit separately if it has a combined cost of more than SGD$400.

It is probably better to buy it in Singapore if the CPU and Motherboard you wanted cost more than SGD $400. Furthermore, you will be covered by a local warranty BUT if you are looking to purchase a Ryzen 3600 and a motherboard that cost less SGD $400 than you could have a significant saving.

We have listed down the comparison of 3 different CPU and the best-reviewed Motherboard for you below.

CPU – Ryzen 3600, 3700X and 3900X

The reason why we choose this 3 processor is that they are the best in term of price to performance ratio. The Ryzen 3600x and 3800x is respectively faster than Ryzen 3600 and 3700x but a margin of 3 – 7% but for an extra $80 – $100 dollars more which you can pump that money to another component like better GPU graphics card.

*Do note that purchases from Amazon you will need to factor in shipping cost and GST if the item is over SGD$400. They are subjected to 7% GST.

When comes to CPU we recommend to purchase it either in Sim Lim or Lazada/Shopee as the price difference is small. For people who really want to get the best deal, we recommend that you should wait for Lazada sales where they give out hefty vouchers that you can use. Lazada often gives out vouchers like $30 and $50 off your purchase.

Motherboard

Choosing a motherboard can be quite challenging for a custom builder who is new in it. There are so many choices out there and it can be overwhelming if you do not know what to look out for. Fear not as we got you covered. We have shortlisted the best motherboard for B450 and X570 chipset for your Ryzen build.

Why did we not choose any X470 motherboard? With the newly released X570 and a vast improvement on future proof support and they cost slightly above the cost of X470 motherboard we see no reason in investing in it unless they went on a cut on a crazy sale. The X570 motherboard gives you the new PCIe-4, huge improvement on their VRM design and some even support the new WIFI 6.

VRM is known as volt regulator modules. As their name stated they are used to control and send voltage to your CPU. To put it simply the better the VRM the better thermal you will get for your precious CPU. You do not want to fry to CPU, don’t you?

PCIe-4 support is for future-proofing. As of now, there are no graphic cards that needed it. Currently, the only benefit of PCIe-4 is the new PCIe-4 SSD that gives you the crazy speed of up to 15gb/s. Unless you are going for an overkill build we suggest you stick to B450 motherboard that we recommended.

When comes to motherboard we recommend to purchase it either in Sim Lim or Lazada as the price difference is small. For people who really want to get the best deal, we recommend that you should wait for Lazada sales where they give out hefty vouchers that you can use. Lazada often gives out vouchers like $30 and $50 off your purchase.

RAM DDR 4

How much GB of ram is enough? We always ask ourself that and to be honest if you are running 1-2 games simultaneously 16GB is good enough but if your build is meant for professional productivity like video editing or any professional workflow that often requires you to opening multiple application then we recommend you to go straight for 32GB.

When comes to choose ram we need to look at 3 factors, GB, Mhz and CL. What are those? The GB or gigabyte is the capacity of the ram can run. Mhz and CL (Cas Latency) works hand in hand to determine the speed of the ram. We recommend that you choose ram that is at least 3000mhz with a CL 15.

Purchasing ram on Amazon could save quite a buck for you as in Singapore the Ram are price way higher. Look at our chart below for comparison. We recommend that you purchase your ram on Amazon.

SSD – Solid State Drive

HDD vs SSD – We highly recommend you to go full SSD as the price has gone down significantly and it is now worth every penning you spend! The cost of 1tb HDD is around $70-80 but the price of 1tb SSD on Amazon cost you double the price at around $160 BUT at 20x the speed! So it is a no brainer to choose SSD over HDD.

There are so many types of SSD out there that run on a different connection like SATA3, PCI-e, M.2 and NVMe M.2. These are a different generation of SSD and how they have evolved. SATA 3 is considered ancient technology in SSD and we do not recommend you buying that. Furthermore, the price difference between these SSDs is small at around $10-30 difference and at major speed difference too. Right now NVMe M.2 is the way to go and it is plucked directly onto your motherboard with no need of cable management so why not?

NVMe M.2 SSD comes in the different interface too! So bear in mind to read the description when purchasing. The most important keyword to take note is “PCIe 3×4” when comes to choosing which SSD you want.

When come to price comparison Amazon completely blow their competition apart. Amazon price is found to be almost $80-100 dollars cheaper!

PSU – Power Supply Unit

The power supply (PSU) is typically one of those parts that are often overlooked when it should be considered one of the most important components of the build. Also, many people pick a power supply based only in the total amount of wattage, assuming that the higher the number is always better, which is not necessarily true.

if you don’t get a quality unit with the right wattage, you may not only end up wasting money and electricity, but you could also end up ruining your computer parts. 

PSU comes in different class categories and depending on the efficiency you choose it gives you different power saving.

• 80+ White is 80 percent power efficient.
• 80+ Bronze is 85 percent power efficient.
• 80+ Silver is 88 percent power efficient.
• 80+ Gold is 90 percent power efficient.
• 80+ Platinum is 92 percent power efficient.
• 80+ Titanium is 94 percent power efficient.

Usually, an 80+ White or Bronze power supply is what most people need. Of course, you can always go with more efficient power supply if a good deal is available.

The price of PSU between Amazon and Singapore retailer are of the same so we can just purchase the PSU within the Singapore retail platform. I have listed down some of the recommended PSU and price difference across Sim Lim and Shopee. To be honest just get the White, Bronze or Gold.

GPU – Graphics Card

Nvidia or AMD? Well, you have to decide which team are you on but since we are recommending AMD Ryzen we should also recommend the new RX 5700 and RX 5700xt by AMD.

Let’s compare the performance between AMD’s RX 5700 and Nvidia’s RTX 2060 as they are priced the same. According to GPU user benchmark, we listed the comparison below,

As you can see with the same price point the RX5700 outperform the RTX 2060 and that is why we highly recommend you to purchase the RX 5700.

For GPU we recommend you to purchase from Sim Lim Square itself as they are price the same as what Amazon is selling. I have listed the charge below for your comparison too.

*NOTE: Our comparison is of the same model but a different brand.

Chasis – Computer Case

With the computer case size, it is a no brainer to purchase it from Sim Lim or Lazada/Shopee as the shipping cost would cost you a bomb and there is not much of a price difference to purchase this item overseas.

If you are into a case that provides you with good airflow that is below $150 then we recommend the follow chasis for you.

CPU Cooler – Liquid cooler(AIO) or Airflow Cooler.

Choosing between liquid cooler or airflow cooler really depends on what you like. Airflow cooler performs just as well as a highly-priced liquid cooler (AIO). I personally do not use AIO as they might have leakage issue and that is a major factor why I hate AIO so much. So I will be a bit of bias here.

Airflow cooler is way cheaper and they perform competitively with AIO. I have listed down 3 of my favourite airflow cooler for your reference on the chart below.

• Cooler Master Hyper 212 – $35
• Deepcool GAMMAXX GTE RGB – $35
• Noctua NH D15 – $130 ( For Super Overclocker)

Recommended Gaming PC built for under SGD $1300

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A whopping difference of SGD $376 and we haven even add in the discount code that could be applied on Lazada and Shopee respectively which we are certain to bring the overall price to be under SGD $1300/-

If all this is a hassle to you than we recommend you to build your PC with Aftershock PC but be prepared to pay a premium for their services.

For the same spec but with better chasis and other small RGB items be prepared to pay SGD $1820/-. Let us know what you think.

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Let’s be honest the free SGD$170 doesn’t just fall from the sky and Coinbase definitely has to benefit from it and it does require some referral from your part to get the full amount of SGD $170/- BUT! if you are too lazy to do referral you can still be able to get SGD $84 dollars for free.

So what is Coinbase? Coinbase is the largest and the most popular platform to grab your first cryptocurrency with your credit/debit card. They are trustworthy and are regulated company and holds licenses in all districts in which it operates.

Now if you are new to Cryptocurrency please do follow our steps closely.

Step 1 – Register an account with Coinbase.

1. Register your account with the link here to get SGD $14/-.
2. Link your credit/debit card
3. Purchase SGD $140/- worth of Ethereum to receive the free SGD $14/- from our link. (Skip this step if you do not intend to put in any money) *[Note you can always draw the money after you got the free money]

Step 2 – Go to “Coinbase Earn”

1. Head on to https://www.coinbase.com/earn

Coinbase earn is newly introduced by Coinbase with collaboration with other popular cryptocurrencies. They give you free crypto in exchange for you to learn and understand the benefit of blockchain technology.

We have tested it out and currently (26/08/2019) only DAI, EOS, Stellar Lumens and Basic Attention Token is giving out free crypto. Well, free crypto = free money anyway.

Simply just click into any crypto listed on the page and follow their steps to earn. Most of them just required you to watch a 2mins clip and answer their quiz. But for EOS and XLM it would require you to refer 4 more people to Coinbase to earn the referral money which amounts to SGD $80/-

If you do not want to go the extra mile you are still able to get around $50/- from doing all the quiz which only took you 30mins? Not bad isn’t it?

2) Step 3 – Convert all your earned Crypto to Ethereum (ETH)

1. Click on the Trade button on Coinbase
2. 
3. After this windows popup click on the Convert section.
4. Convert all your earned Crypto to Ethereum (ETH) The reason why we convert to ETH is due to its low transfer fee which we have to transfer it to another platform in order to withdraw it out to our bank account
5. 

After converting all the earned Crypto to ETH we then move on the next step.

Step 4 – Setting up Binance.sg and Xfers.com for withdrawal

Now, this is a litter complicated so do-follow through. Currently, we are unable to withdraw money out from Coinbase hence we need to use another popular platform call Binance.sg [not .com] and Xfers.com

1. Sign up for Binance.sg account using this link to get SGD $20/- (After topping up SGD $100) [You can always withdraw the money after you top it up. To top up money please follow the next step.]
2. Sign up for Xfers.com account.
   1. Link your bank with Xfers
   2. Follow their instruction carefully on how to transfer funds to Xfers
   3. Link your Xfers account with Binance.sg
3. Now you will see the amount you have on your Xfers being reflected on Binance.sg dashboard.
4. 
5. We recommend purchasing Ethereum as their transfer fees are lower than Bitcoin.
6. Purchase $100 worth of ETH and you will receive $20/- as bonus

Step 5 – Transfer all your ETH on your Coinbase to Binance.sg

1. On Binance.sg go to “Account section” and you will see Ethereum Recieve and Send.
2. 
3. Click on the “Recieve” Button to find out your “ETH Address”
4. 
5. Click on the copy address to copy the address.
6. Go to Coinbase and go to “Account” section.
7. 
8. Find ETH wallet and click on the send button
9. 
10. Paste the address that you copied from Binance.sg
11. Double-check the address again as it is not reversible and your money will be gone if the address is wrong.
12. Continue and send. It will take 1 – 10 minutes to show up in your Binance.sg account
13. Once the ETH show up in your Binance account goes to “buy/sell” section and click on ETH on the “I want to sell” and “Designation” to Xfers
14. 
15. Lastly goes to your Xfers account and withdraw it out to your linked bank account. Do note the minimum withdrawal is set at SGD $100/-
16. 

Now just wait for the funds to be transferred and you are $170 richer! We hope you like our content and do follow our Facebook page for more content like this.

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If you have invested in Bitcoin during Feb-March 2011 and have kept it since you would probably be SGD $16,999 richer by now for each Bitcoin you own since the price of Bitcoin was only $1 dollar back then. That is a whopping 16999% profit from every $1 dollar invested.

It is 2019 now and during this 10 years, we have seen Bitcoin hitting the highest price point at around SGD $26,000 on 17 Dec 2017 and a year later fell to a loss of 83% at SGD $4,400 on 17 Dec 2017.

Giant tech companies are getting involved in the blockchain technology and the perfect example is Libra, a cryptocurrency created by Facebook. Locally we also have Qoo10 that has Quube.

We are not here to give any financial or investment advise. This post serves only one purpose and it is to teach what is the best way to purchase cryptocurrency in Singapore without paying too many fees, how to trade your bitcoin with another cryptocurrency and how to withdraw out your investment to your Singapore bank. We have listed it down in 3 simple steps, buy, trade and withdraw.

Step 1: Buy

1) Coinbase

Coinbase is the most popular exchange for any beginner and also the easiest way to purchase your first cryptocurrency with your credit/debit card. There have a Buy / Sell fees of 1.49% and a credit/debit card fees of 3.99%. They even have an app for any Android or IOS devices. The platform is clean and easy to understand.

2) Binance.sg (Reccomeded)

Do not be complicated by Binance.com which we will talk about it later on the trade part. Binance.sg is a subsidary from Bianace.com which is the largest platform for trading cryptocurrency right now.

Singapore is lucky as Binance setup a Singapore counterpart for us Singaporean to purchase and withdraw money easily. To begin first we need to sign up for Xfers and Binance.sg

Click here to sign up for Xfers Click here to sign up for Binance.sg

Xfers is just like another PayPal which act as a payment platform but Xfers focus on Digital Currency (Cryptocurrency) hence once you sign up for Xfers you can link your bank directly and you can deposit and withdraw your money directly from your bank.

After which you can send your funds to Binance.sg and start purchasing your first Bitcoin. Do note that Binance.sg only offer 3 cryptocurrency right now which is Bitcoin, Ethereum and Binance Coin.

Step 2: Trade

This is for the more advance stage where you explore more opportunities with Alt coins. Alt coins are other cryptocurrencies that are not bitcoin. There are thousands of other coins out there for you to explore and when you see one that you are interested to invest in the high chance is that it most probably be available in exchanges.

Crpto exchange acts like stock exchange. We have listed 3 of the biggest crypto exchange for your references. Simply transfer your coins to these exchanges and you can start trading. Do note that you need to check if the cryptocurrency you are interested in is listed there simply by checking on Coinmarketcap.

Simply search for the coin you want and you can see on which exchange is the cryptocurrency listed.

1) Binance (Largest exchange)

2) Huobi (2nd Largest exchange)

3) Kucoin (3rd largest exchange)

Step 3: Withdraw

After gaining profits and now you decided to draw out the money to your bank account. In the past, we can easily withdraw money from Coinbase but as of today, we are unable to do so.

The next easier was is to just withdraw from your Binance.sg wallet and deposit it your Xfers. From there you should have already linked your bank and it can simply tranfer it directly to your linked bank account.

Click here to sign up on Binance.sg

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Century egg is normally served in porridge but this Café bring it up to the next level by introducing “Century Egg Cheesecake Topped With Ikan Bilis”.

Yes, It’s a real deal and you can find this in our neighbouring country Malaysia, Penang.

This wacky cake is going for S$13.80/slice and it is served by Moody Cow Dessert Café in Penang.

Do not be mistaken with Oreo cheesecake. The black round stuff in the middle of the cake is actually a century egg!

It is topped with Ikan bilis and peanuts which adds crispness, savoury and spicy taste to a supposedly sweet dessert.

So how is the taste?

We have not tried the cake but according to food blogger, Rebecca It does not taste as revolting as it looks but be warned she also mention that the taste of the cake is quite an acquired taste.

Visiting Penang soon? You might want to drop by this cafe to witness and taste this strange cake.

• Location: Moody Cow Dessert Café
• Address: 170 Jalan Transfer, George Town, 10050 Goerge Town, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
• Opening hours: 11-12am daily

Do note that the cafe rotates its flavours regularly. To avoid getting disappointed, we strongly advise reaching out on their Facebook before heading down.

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Selling stock footages is never new and has been around for decades. This market is dominated by big agency like Shutterstock, Adobe Stock, Pond5, Storyblocks and VimeoStock.

So why Blackbox Global? Instead of other big video stock agency?

I have been uploading to video stock agency since 4 years ago and it has always been a pain and time-consuming task to upload footages to individual agency and metadata each footage again.

BlackBox is not only attracting the old experienced stock filmmakers but is opening the doors for thousands of new contributors. But why?

Blackbox makes it easy for anybody who wants to earn a passive income. You only have to upload to Blackbox once, metadata your footage once and they will distribute your stock footages to all their stock agency partners like, Shutterstock, Adobe Stock, Pond5, Storyblocks and VimeoStock. It is that easy and believe me it is a time saver – which means you spend more time creating content (which earn you passive income) than uploading your clips to different agency one by one.

One thing to take note – Blackbox takes 15% commission when your clip sells. It’s not a big deal when you think about how much time you waste to upload the same clip over and over again.

Another PRO of Blackbox – Curator

Sometimes we are too busy with work or just too lazy and left hours of footages in our harddisk un-touch with their potential of earning you passive income for life. So Blackbox has a solution and it is curation.

Blackbox allows you to work with a curator or as a curator with others to do specific workload for you and they would earn a percentage of commission when the clip is sold.

For example,

1. A curator can add metadata for you after you have edited and colour graded your clips.
2. A curator can also edit, colour grade, metadata and upload the clip for you.

You can discuss the commission with your curator but it is kind of set around 20% for example 1 and 60% for example 2.

What is metadata

Metadata plays an important role in your clip to be found and sold on the stock agency. If your clips are good but your metadata is bad the chances of the clip being sold would be slim.

I often use microstock keyword tool to do my metadata and it work perfectly fine for me. CLICK HERE

Facebook group – Great support

Their Facebook group have 13k members and are really active in the group helping people out with their question. If you have any question in mind you can simply ask and you can get an answer within minutes and I am not even kidding.

How much can we earn?

So far I have uploaded 300 clips and had made USD$103.89/- in the time span of 4 months. Do mind that I have not been actively uploading clips in Blackbox and most of my clips are still exclusively in the stock agencies.

Thou the number is small but it is still free passive income for you. Making a living out of stock footages is no easy task too. With my experience quality clips always sell better but I do have some footages that I took using my iPhone being sold too. It is about finding the trend and create quality footage that leads to success.

Keep uploading your clips and when you have more clips you will be able to see a steady stream of income coming in. There is one members who uploaded 1000 clips and he’s steadily getting passive income every month.

Who knows what this opportunity will bring you after you uploaded 10,000 clips. It is not an easy task but it is not impossible. After all, this passive income is for a lifetime.

Conclusion

Selling stock footages was never easy. Blackbox does not just create a convenient platform for filmmakers looking for creative income but also creates an opportunity for amateur or newcomer a chance to learn and create a passive income for themselves.

If you are interested in signing up on Blackbox do click here

The link is my referral link. Thank you so much for keeping this website up.

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But! Beware of durian scams. A Singaporean namely, Eugene Lau posted on Facebook regards to his scammy experience by his wife when he is not around.

Mr Eugene claims that the durian vendor came knocking his door and market themselves with durians of Mao Shan Wang quality for only SGD$15/- per durian (Which is cheap if it is of that quality).

With such a temptation of price, his wife agreed to buy some from them and they started opening the durians. The durian vendor opened up 6 durians before she knows it and now they wanted to charge her SGD$15/- kilogram instead of the per durian which was agreed upon. The durian vendor then took out a weighing scale to weight the durian. The total cost now comes up to SGD$385/- with a total weight of 23KG.

Mr Eugene also posted the photo of the 6 durians that was opened and was place in tupperware.

These surely does not look like coming our from 6 durians.

He mentioned that his wife obviously did not pay the scammers and immediately called him which Mr Eugene Lau immediately call the police. The scammers than release something is off and told Mr Eugene Lau’s wife that they will come back to collect the money later which they never came back.

Do be careful of these illegal vendors this coming durian season.

You can view the original post below,

Some bastards came to our place today and tried to sell some durians to my wife for $15 per durian, claiming that it was MSW quality. My wife agreed to buy some from them and they started opening up the durians but before she knew it they told her that they had opened up 6 durians (surely these durians in the tupperware look like they came from 6 bloody durians) and wanted to charge her $15 per KG instead of per durian and insisted that she had misheard them. Next, they took out a weighing scale and wanted my wife to pay $385 bloody dollars – that’s 23kg worth of durians! Where is the rest of my durians?! Obviously my wife refused to pay and called me immediately and I followed up by calling the police. The durian bastards must have sensed that something was wrong and told my wife that they will come back for payment later when the husband is back. Mind you, all this while they were standing outside my door refusing to leave as they had already opened up the durians, with a knife in their hand. I was already in rage mode and was picturing myself smashing the durian shells into their face, but too bad those bastards never came back for their money or durians. It was then that the police informed me that even his own mother got scammed by these assholes. 
Kudos to these fellas for making the effort to rig their weighing scale and coming up with such a creative scam. Dear family and friends, please take note of this and warn your close ones to stay vigilant and not fall prey to these durian scammers.

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Who does not want to own a Dyson product? and now your kids can own them too at SGD$50.

The design is base on their V6 Vacuum model but at the right size for kids to have fun with and it actually function as a cordless vacuum cleaner.

It is not a bad idea to have this product to teach and have fun with your kids cleaning up the house.

They even have the latest Dyson vacuum model too.

This toy has been getting great reviews on Amazon.

“OMG! My nephew has not stopped playing with this since he got it. He absolutely loves it. It is a mini version of mommy and daddy’s vacuum. It actually picks up dirt/lint! Hours of fun and not too obnoxiously loud.” by Andji

“My little girl loves this toy Dyson. She is obsessed with mine and would always sit down in front of it when I would vacuum. So I knew she had to have her own. Shes 10 months old and even though it is as tall as she is, she still manages to push it around. Its such a cute toy.” by Chelsea

Do take note that this is still a toy and the suction power will not be like a real vacuum.

You can purchase this Dyson vacuum on Amazon HERE for $40 SGD.

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