It will be accompanies by a chassis meant for the Intel NUC

May 27, 2014 11:38 GMT  ·  By

Gaming computers tend to get fancy cases to dwell inside, and Streacom is getting ready to release the first chassis of this particular sort. We only have until June 3 to wait before we can catch a glimpse of it.

That's the main problem we have with the company's announcement, you see: Streacom deliberately withheld press photos of the chassis.

The F12C Steam Box case is described as an “elegant, yet powerful chassis for the living room” but which is also suited for an existent HiFi environment.

Which is to say, Streacom intends for the case to house PCs that are just as likely to play films and home video as they are to run games.

Standard-sized PC components are said to fit in the Streacom F12C Steam Box, like video cards of up to 300 mm in length (11.81 inches), ATX motherboards and power supplies, up to six storage devices (four 3.5-inch SSDs/HDDs and two 2.5-inch HDDs/SSDs) and radiators for GPU and CPU coolers.

Presumably, there is a whole bunch of PCI Express expansion slots in there somewhere, and an I/O panel with USB 3.0 and audio ports, at the very least.

After all, it wouldn't do for an illustrious, gaming chassis to lack things that even the most basic of cases possess.

That would only leave an HDD dock to be installed at the top of the thing, but unlike the others, this is not an essential component of any case, gaming or otherwise, so it's a tossup.

The other case that Streacom will unveil at Computex 2014 (the trade show taking place in Taipei, Taiwan from June 3 to June 7) is a fanless miniature enclosure designed for the Intel NUC mini PC (Next Unit of Computing).

Unfortunately, the name of the product wasn't released, though the company did mention another mini case by name: FC8 Evo, which will hold an AMD AM1 platform system at the show.

Or maybe it actually is the case that will house the Intel NUC, but Streacom just wants to keep us guessing.

In any event, we suspect that the case (or cases, if they really aren't the same product) has one 2.5-inch bay (for an HDD or SSD), room for the tiny PSU, support for USB 3.0 and all the other basics. We won't be able to tell you how it compares to the other NUC cases out there until the release though, or at least a photo leak.