I Bought a GALLERIA XA7C-R37 — Core i7-11700 / 16GB / RTX3070
I bought a “GALLERIA XA7C-R37," a gaming PC from the Japanese PC retailer Dospara.
It carries the then-latest 11th-gen Intel Core i7-11700 and a GeForce RTX 3070, and the price came in just under ¥200,000.
This post is just to say I bought it. I will add benchmark results as I go. With GPUs this hard to find right now, was ¥200,000 actually a good deal?
Why I Bought This
Bitcoin recently broke ¥7 million per coin for a moment, and a cryptocurrency mining boom has followed.
Mining leans heavily on GPUs like NVIDIA’s GeForce lineup, and as a result graphics cards have all but disappeared from the retail market.
Gaming PCs are taking the full brunt of this.
With graphics card prices through the roof, even people building their own PCs cannot get their hands on one.
The GeForce RTX 3070 I wanted launched at around ¥70,000, and it is now going for more than ¥150,000.
Which brings me to this GALLERIA XA7C-R37.
It pairs an 11th-gen Intel Core i7-11700 with a GeForce RTX 3070, prebuilt, for just under ¥200,000.
Against the current market, that price felt like a genuine deal.
The Key Specs on This Build
Right now, this is about the cheapest way to get a PC with a GeForce RTX 3070 and an 11th-gen Core CPU together.
| Model | GALLERIA XA7C-R37 |
|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Core i7-11700 8 cores / 16 threads, 2.5GHz (Turbo Boost 4.9GHz) |
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8GB GDDR6 |
| Memory | 16GB |
| SSD | 512GB |
| HDD | None |
| PSU | 650W quiet PSU (80 PLUS Bronze) |
| OS | Windows 10 Home 64-bit |
As a gaming PC, this is a comfortably capable build.
Some VR titles, like Medal of Honor, run close to 200GB, so the SSD as configured might feel a little tight.
Case Changes
The case is basically the same as the XA7C-R70S I reviewed previously.
The main change is a support brace, visible in the photo below, added to hold up the heavier graphics card.
Motherboard
The motherboard turned out to be an ASUS “PRIME H570M-PLUS."
The rear I/O panel is shown in the photo below.
- USB 2.0 ×4
- USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ×2
- USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C ×1
Personally, I think it might be time to retire USB 2.0 ports altogether.
The USB Type-C port is USB 3.2 Gen 2, not Thunderbolt.
I plugged an Oculus Quest 2 into the Type-C port. For some reason, it delivered no power at all.
Graphics Card
The graphics card in this unit is a Palit “GeForce RTX 3070 GamingPro."
As a standalone card, it is currently sold out and hard to find.
Benchmark Results So Far
I will add to this section gradually.
Cinebench R23
This is the score after 10 minutes of thermal throttling, and it still only lands a little over 9,000 — roughly in the same range as a Core i5-10600. It is possible I got an unlucky chip.
3DMark: Time Spy
3DMark: Fire Strike
3DMark: Port Royal
3DMark: Night Raid
PCMark 10
Trying Out GPU Mining
I installed MSI Afterburner, tuned the GPU, and tried mining with NiceHash.
https://www.msi.com/Landing/afterburner/graphics-cardsI tuned for efficiency, and got around 450kH/J. That seems to be on the good side for efficiency.
I would not call this the best possible setup, but here is a screenshot of my Afterburner settings.
NiceHash was showing roughly 0.1 mBTC per day. Run 24 hours a day, that works out to around ¥18,000 a month by simple math — which, over a year, would come out above ¥200,000.
That said, if the PC is actually being used for real work or gaming alongside this, the mining income alone would likely stay under the ¥200,000 threshold where, in Japan, it would not need to be declared separately on your taxes.
Mining does come with downsides:
- It works the hardware hard
- It costs electricity
- It means opening a hole in your security software
So it is worth thinking through carefully, but as pocket money on the side, it does not seem like a bad deal.
My Overall Impressions
I bought a “GALLERIA XA7C-R37," a gaming PC from Dospara.
I picked it for the 11th-gen Core i7, which had caught my interest, and because I wanted a GeForce RTX 3070.
Since the model change last year, the GALLERIA line’s design feels a step ahead of where it used to be.
I will keep adding performance notes bit by bit, but this is a machine that makes you want to own it.
As a rival option, FRONTIER has also released a fairly nice model priced just under ¥200,000.