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Computex: Fanless housing for Raspberry Pi 5 and Asus NUC

Akasa is presenting two enclosures for the silent operation of popular mini PCs and single-board computers. Attention has also been paid to details such as GPIO

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Aka housing for the Raspi 5

The fanless Raspberry Pi housing cools the ARM processor and is equipped with a front display.

(Image: c't / chh)

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This article was originally published in German and has been automatically translated.

The British-Taiwanese manufacturer Akasa specializes in the development of aluminium housings that also serve as heat sinks for the processor. At Computex, the company is showcasing a black anodized Hawking series case for the NUC mini PCs acquired from Intel by Asus.

Compared to the previous NUC passive housings, Akasa was able to significantly reduce the size, but only releases it for the variant with Core i3-1315U of the NUC 13 Pro. In contrast to the models with Core i7 and Core i5, the CPU in this case has a thermal design power (TDP) of just 15 watts instead of 28 watts. This makes cooling considerably easier.

The Hawking case from Akasa allows fanless operation of Asus' NUCs, but takes up hardly any more space than the original case with fan.

(Image: c't / chh)

Akasa presents a fanless housing with front display for the Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer, which is popular with hobbyists and industrial customers alike. It brings out the two micro HDMI outputs on the side of the board as standard HDMI sockets, the USB-C power connection and the other connections on the rear. The40-pin GPIO strip is also accessible from the outside via a ribbon cable.

Akasa has not yet commented on prices and delivery dates. Typically, however, the manufacturer's products are also delivered to Germany.

In the Raspberry Pi 5 housing, the manufacturer has ensured that the GPIO pins are still accessible.

(Image: c't / chh)

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