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Writing this from a passively cooled (Streacom FC8 Evo) Linux PC with a Russian keyboard.

    # dmidecode 3.6
    Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
    SMBIOS 2.8 present.

    Handle 0x002C, DMI type 27, 15 bytes
    Cooling Device
        Temperature Probe Handle: 0x0029
        Type: <OUT OF SPEC>
        Status: <OUT OF SPEC>
        Cooling Unit Group: 1
        OEM-specific Information: 0x00000000
        Nominal Speed: Unknown Or Non-rotating
        Description: Cooling Dev 1

    Handle 0x002F, DMI type 27, 15 bytes
    Cooling Device
        Temperature Probe Handle: 0x0029
        Type: <OUT OF SPEC>
        Status: <OUT OF SPEC>
        Cooling Unit Group: 1
        OEM-specific Information: 0x00000000
        Nominal Speed: Unknown Or Non-rotating
        Description: Not Specified

    Handle 0x0037, DMI type 27, 15 bytes
    Cooling Device
        Temperature Probe Handle: 0x0036
        Type: Power Supply Fan
        Status: OK
        Cooling Unit Group: 1
        OEM-specific Information: 0x00000000
        Nominal Speed: Unknown Or Non-rotating
        Description: Cooling Dev 1
So a cooling device is still present.

Sensor data:

    iwlwifi_1-virtual-0
    Adapter: Virtual device
    temp1:        +59.0°C  

    acpitz-acpi-0    # Fake, always reports these temperatures
    Adapter: ACPI interface
    temp1:        +27.8°C  
    temp2:        +29.8°C  

    coretemp-isa-0000
    Adapter: ISA adapter
    Package id 0:  +51.0°C  (high = +86.0°C, crit = +92.0°C)
    Core 0:        +51.0°C  (high = +86.0°C, crit = +92.0°C)
    Core 1:        +47.0°C  (high = +86.0°C, crit = +92.0°C)
    Core 2:        +49.0°C  (high = +86.0°C, crit = +92.0°C)
    Core 3:        +49.0°C  (high = +86.0°C, crit = +92.0°C)





> Streacom FC8 Evo

I normally think PC cases are gaudy and boring even when trying to evoke some style. That stuff in Streacom website however makes me want to build something with it.

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LTT did a video with the SG10 a couple months ago. Really neat concept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLHC2_gByQ8

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Isn’t it just a smoother-looking typical industrial PC case? Always liked them though, too.

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I am not sure what an "industrial PC" means. Inside, there are heat pipes connected to the CPU, and one side of the case (where these heat pipes lead) serves as both a heatsink and a surface with fins for convective cooling.

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Industrial PCs are computers meant to go in industrial environments. They vary quite a bit but often have to handle dirty (possibly explosive or corrosive) air, 24v power, wide temperature ranges, lots of electrical and radio noise, and being cabinet mounted.

If you've got a little Node-RED box reading serial data from your bar code reader, doing lookups in your SAP database, and then sending Modbus commands to your PLC to redirect a box down a different conveyor line, it's probably an industrial PC.

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Streacom makes fanless and air-cooled cases computers that aim to look good. Their products target an audio/video and enthusiastic pc building market. I would say they would be on the same category as Silverstone.

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Yeah, that sounds quite different than industrial PCs, where the engineer specifying it spends 10 minutes pouring over specs and 2 seconds looking at the picture.

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It doesn't need to be one or the other. It takes some engineering work to design something like https://streacom.com/products/db4-fanless-mini-itx-case/#fea....

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