Streacom FC5 ALPHA and PSU Bundles

I’ve built quiet PC’s before but this was my first attempt at a totally silent PC and it works just as advertised.

I teamed up the Streacom FC5 and nano160 psu with an AMD 5370, Asrock AM1b motherboard and a Corsiar 60GB ssd running Linux Mint Debian edition. All of my media files are held on a server which sits in the study.

There were only a couple of moments that required a bit of thought: The first was fitting the cpu heatpipes. As the manual suggested I did a dry fit first and at one point I thought I was going to need several more hands to hold everything in place while I tightened all the screws. In the end I found that fitting the pipes to the apu and then tightening those four screws made the other bits easier. The other slight gotcha was that the apu heatsink bracket arms protruded over one of the memory slots. I was only fitting a single memory stick so it wasn’t really a problem. If I’d wanted to fit two sticks I could have cut a small amount off of the two arms in question.

The HTPC will be running for the next few days and logging some temperature readings, it’s currently showing 46C which is quite acceptable. I’d classify this build as a resounding success.