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Black Friday dealsare coming in hot, and my little cousin wants a gaming PC.

What components did I pick?

The MSI MAG Forge 112R gaming PC case on a red background with �BIG SAVINGS� text.

But if you do need more, upgrading is easy!

The tempered glass window means you might show off your build in glorious rainbow lighting, too!

Actually, AMD - why the heck did you stop bundling these coolers with all your CPUs?

MSI Gaming Ventus 2X OC RTX 3060: $260now $241.99 at Amazon

They were some of thebest CPU coolersaround for mainstream chips!

Its a fairly feature-light mobo, but thats fine - it just needs to support our components.

So, did I succeed in my quest?

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X: $309now $158.55 at Amazon

It apparently uses DDR3 RAM (in 2023?!)

and nowhere on the listing does it specifywhichIntelCore i7 processor it uses.

Some brief digging seems to indicate its an ancient 3rd-gen quad-core Intel chip, so… not good.

Gigabyte B550 Gaming X V2: $149.99now $95.99 at Amazon

In other words, I think I nailed it.

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Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB): $63.66now $39.99 at Amazon

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MSI MAG A650BN: $69.99now $59.99 at Amazon

MSI MAG Forge 112R: $89.99now $64.99 at Amazon

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