Streacom FC5: A Chassis To Build A Completely Fanless PC, Great For Linux HTPC/SteamOS PCs

With supporting up to a ~73 Watt CPU, most any AMD or Intel system can be made to work with this chassis. Streacom officially lists the LGA-775/1366/1155/1150 CPUs as supported or AMD AM1/AM2/AM3/FM1/FM2 sockets as supported. If you are interested in all the technical specs, they offer a system build guide for their enclosures. The passive CPU cooler is made up of an aluminum base coming in contact with the processor and then four adjustable heatpipes that connect to the side of the chassis for heat dissipation via the fins running along both sides of the unit.

Without thinking too much about it, at first I decided I was going to try out an AAEON Bay Trail system since this was my first time trying out any Streacom chassis. Unfortunately, those plans were quickly foiled. The mounting holes around the Bay Trail Atom SoC were too close for utilizing the metal mounting bracket that sits atop the CPU heatplate where it then interfaces with the heatpipes. While I was then working on a way to workaround the mounting holes, I realized the heatpipes wouldn't fit since the memory slot immediately above the CPU socket area obstructed the pipes. So I had to give up on my Bay Trail plans and turned to an AMD AM1 system.

The hardware I ended up using was an Athlon 5350 AM1 APU with ASRock AM1H-ITX motherboard using an M.2 SSD storage and DDR3 memory.