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Neato! IIRC, these are made by CWT, no? A lot of their older ones are manufactured by Seasonic, but I've not heard much horror stories with the RMi series, so sounds like it's a safe bet.

I've decided to just go with the CM NR600 Been reading stuff on it and it looks like the exact setup I need. Just need to mount 2 extra case fans on the front.

I thought I’d get some opinions on the finer points of this build before I pull the trigger. To keep things short, I don’t like skimping on things that shouldn’t really be skimped on. Which was why the build had to have a good quality PSU from the beginning. Unfortunately, over in Malaysia, options tend to be limited from offerings provided by Cooler Master, Corsair....and Silverstone, along with a ton of unbranded stuff that I would never touch with a 20ft pole. Reading around, the RM750i from Corsair looks to be more than sufficient for a 3700X and a RTX 2070 Super combo with the CPU running at stock. Truthfully, 650W would’ve been plenty fine but 750W was the lowest offering over here. With that said, I’d like some opinions over this specific PSU and anything else I should look out for.

I also looked at the H710i. It’s better but also out of budget

I’ll try to keep a lookout for that I do like the design of the H510 but that intake design doesn’t sit fine with me. H710 seems better but it’s also a bit over budget

Neither. Unless you mean the Carbide 275R

To keep it short and simple, I had originally wanted to put all of my components inside a Fractal Meshify C because it had a good mix of relatively “understated” looks together with good airflow thanks to a meshed front panel. Unfortunately, finding a Fractal Meshify C over here is next to impossible outside of imports, so asking around led to the NZXT H510i case being an alternative. My concern though is airflow. The H510i lacks a front mesh panel and seems to have its intakes positioned on the right and the bottom. Reading some reviews and Gamers Nexus points to this being a relatively mediocre performer in terms of airflow. However, I’m willing to know whether this is significant in overall use and some ideal alternatives preferably from the likes of Cooler Master or Corsair (no brand-loyalty here, just stuff that’s easier to find around these parts)

Don't sweat it. My main PC took a shit and would likely require an expensive repair to get back working, so I'm currently seeing if I can get a built-desktop up soon.

Photo ones, but I know a guy who does video mainly with some video tripods

Sounds ideal. I'll look into that.

Yeah, looks good. Though I think the NAS might be a better long-term solution. There’s still plenty of time to decide on that though

Thanks for the changes. Though I will still have to either add a huge hard drive or build a NAS in the future because as I do photography, I also do heaps of archiving. 2TB ought to be fine for now but I'd also have to look into that NAS I mentioned.

In response to my ASUS laptop suffering a string of memory-related errors and it being expensive to resolve due to the very design of the machine and what has probably failed, I've decided that perhaps it's time to actually change strategies. I've forgone the expensive laptops and will settle for a less-expensive laptop that will be just fine for work and such, and having a desktop that's going to do a bulk of the work. I've actually thought of this for a while as a potential replacement for the laptop once it gets too old to be feasible, but due to what I mentioned above, against my will, I'll have to commit to it. Requirements are as follows; Budget (including currency): $1500USD. Could get to $2000 but I'd much rather stay below $1500. Country: Malaysia Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Batch editing in Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, upscaling images to 100+MP via PS, some games like Forza Horizon 4, video editing in Resolve. Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Already have a 1080p 144Hz monitor alongside a 1080p 60Hz one intended as a secondary for Photoshop/Lightroom. Also have a Logitech G810 and G502 combo. I'll throw down a PCPartPicker list down below with the help of some friends. These are non-final as I already plan to make changes to the storage and the board. Do post suggestions below if you please. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/dth6mg

Ouch.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. It's just so unfortunate that this happened a few months after the warranty is out and also because there's a pandemic going on right now, forcing everyone home and requiring a computer to get some work done. I've got a crappy Acer laptop from 2011 that could help with the light work portion for now.

Not exactly. The ASUS laptop comes with 8GB of DDR4-2400 that's soldered on the board. However, it also comes with an additional SODIMM slot that accepts a DDR4 SODIMM RAM module if the end user wishes to increase the RAM capacity. Trouble is that when I first ran the Memtest, it was testing both the soldered and SODIMM modules. 14 hours later on the 8th run, it then spewed errors. So I opened up the case and removed the SODIMM module so I could isolate the soldered module to test that specific module. That module also spewed errors in Memtest after just nearly 2 hours on its second pass. The system doesn't POST at all if I re-insert the SODIMM module, but does if I leave it out and have the system run on just the soldered one. However, given that running Memtest86+ on both combined modules and just the soldered one spewed errors, I wonder if this is a "cut your losses" situation.

If I put the socket ram back in, it doesn't POST. It POSTs without it but testing both modules with Memtest86+ yielded errors

Remember when I first asked about why my laptop occasionally spits out FAULTY_HARDWARE_CORRUPTED_PAGE BSODs? Well, it happened a few more times and after the most recent one, I've finally had enough and went to retest the memory. Low and behold, it found errors. But that's not the most painful part. After I went and removed the socketed RAM to test the soldered one (the GL502VM has both soldered and socketed memory) and, well, it also spat out errors after just 2 passes. So I'm now in a very sticky situation. After I put the socketed RAM back in, the system had failed to POST at all. Which brings me into a very difficult situation, having a computer that can boot but is also unreliable. Think I should just cut my losses?

Actually, I have been working on that for months. Due to me having a literal tripod collection, I've kind of been christened "The man of many tripods". So I can definitely help out there.

Yeah, I can sort of foresee using my X-T3 with an Elgato while the 50-140mm is attached alongside some Aputure lighting. Overkill? Ohhhhh yeah.