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This spring break, we were able to hold a PC building event with only one person, a freshman named O. He wanted a PC that could play Minecraft even with mods. He wanted a GeForce RTX video card, and his budget was about 200,000 yen for the computer alone. He already had an LCD monitor. He revised the estimate I made and bought the following parts:

CPU Intel Core i5 13400F

Motherboard ASUS TUF-Gaming H770-PRO WiFi

Memory ADATA CT2K32G52C42U5 DDR5-5200 32GBx2 = 64GB

Video card ASUS TUF-RTX3060-O12G-V2-Gaming

SSD Crucial SSD P3 Plus 1TB

ATX power supply Seasonic FOCUS-GX-650S

ATX case Fractal Design Pop Air TG

He said he would be using wireless LAN at home, so a motherboard with WiFi was a requirement. This motherboard supports DDR5 memory. The CPU does not generate much heat and comes with a CPU cooler, so I chose the Core i5 13400F. The configuration is 10C14T = 4P6E. Even the 6-core 7600 AMD Ryzen CPU is more expensive than the 13400F.

Photo 1. Inserting the power cable for the CPU.

O-kun made two changes: the memory capacity and the SSD. The original plan was for 32GB of memory, but he increased it to 64GB because he wanted to edit videos in the future. The Core i5-13400F CPU supports up to DDR5-4800, so 5200 is plenty. The original plan was for a WD Black SN770 1TB SSD, but he decided to change it to a cheaper Crucial with QLC. The TUF Gaming H770 WiFi has four M.2 slots, so he can add three more.

I had budgetary restrictions and could have gone for either the GeForce RTX 3060 or 3060 Ti video card, but I decided on the 3060, which has a large VRAM of 12GB, even though it is a lower-end model.

The power supply is a Seasonic FOCUS-GX-650S, which has a 10-year warranty and plenty of capacity. I think I can replace both the CPU and video card with something about two ranks higher than what I have now.

Photo 2. O-kun and the completed PC.

The first time I tried it, the BIOS screen did not appear. The reason for this was the CPU power cable. The motherboard has an 8pin+4pin socket, and two 4pin+4pin CPU power cables are used to connect to it, which means one 4pin plug is left over, but it seems that the plug was connected to the 4pin socket in the wrong direction.

After fixing that, I was able to correctly install Windows 11 from the boot USB memory that O-kun had prepared. I still couldn't connect to the LAN, so I installed the motherboard driver from the included DVD and was able to connect to the campus wireless LAN. After that, I installed the GPU driver from the NVIDIA website and updated the BIOS.

I started at about 10:30 a.m. and finished at 3 p.m., including lunch in the school cafeteria. Good work!

O-kun's impression was that it was easier than he thought. He was a diligent and excellent student who was able to do it quickly after I explained it to him verbally.

I'm interested to see how the 3060 is.