ASUS PC DIY Campaign Appoints "Genki-sensei", Assembling Personal Computers with Parents and Children

ASUS Corporation appointed science artist Genki Ichioka as the first PC DIY campaign in Japan, and released a video of a parent and child assembling a personal computer. This time, I saw the recording scenery.

Computer assembly from the perspective of "ordinary people"

Conventionally, ASUS's PC DIY campaign has often planned to use high-end parts such as "gamers" to make products, but this time Mr. Genki was appointed as a person who is not familiar with personal computer building because it is a general person's point of view. The personal computer to be assembled is also "so-so-sober specs".

"Building a computer with parents and children (during summer vacation)" is a relatively popular event in Japan. Major companies such as Fujitsu, Panasonic, and DELL (see the latest 2019 report) are doing this, but these are mainly laptops that are relatively light and easy to maintain.

When it comes to building a computer with relatively free specs, I once covered a parent-child computer assembly class for a mouse computer.

However, the corona disaster has not ended yet, and mouse computers and DELL have already announced their cancellation in 2021.

This ASUS video is "Elementary School Independent Research", where Mr. Genki Ichioka builds a computer with his daughters (Mimi-chan, Koko-chan) who are in the third grade of elementary school. I feel that the hurdles are high. It was the basic daughters who actually assembled it, and Mr. Genki was in charge of explanation and assistance. Below, we will deliver the behind-the-scenes photos from the day of the recording (probably) that do not appear in the public video.

This parts list. All are ASUS products except CPU, memory and SSD.

Extreme cold?

Mr. Genki seems to be interested in "overclocking with liquid nitrogen cooling" because he said unnecessary things during the assembly work, but the motherboard must also use a high-end product. and it can be difficult.

Personally, I think it would be nice to make a "liquid cooling MOD PC" that uses a large reservoir tank because it looks like a GENKI LABO computer, but if you do that, it won't be the Ichioka family's computer, so "Papa My computer was stolen!"