KKSB Rock 5B Case with Heatsink - Black Aluminium Case

I have been seeking for a good case for my PCB and finally found this one. Works well for me, although if I would have preferred one with active cooling (this is because I am also using an NVMe disc with my 5B. Hopefully in the future they will make a new version with some active cooling and maybe some pads for the NVMe disc at the bottom of the PCB.

Since i discovered the Powerful Rock 5B Board i had been searching for a good case made of metal with a good cooling capacity. The KKSB case is perfect, it contains a metal cooler that uses the case as a radiator. My system mounts a SSD and some additional hardware to serve as cloud agnostic smarhome center and this means 24x7 cpu, network and SSD activity. Besides of a hand warm case i have nothing negative to report, the system runs stable, silent and looks good side by side with an small PoE splitter that is almost the same height. I can only but recomend this case (actually i just bought a second one for a second SH server ) IMHO a CLEAR BUY

I'm doing an R&D project for work and I needed to get a few SBCs with PoE hats, cases (ideally with Key-Hole mounts), etc. to be able to test a product as well as feasibility to deploy. Sturdiness - 5-Star. I had some concerns when I was disassembling it to get the heatsink and bag of hardware from inside the case, it felt flimsy, but once I put the top grill on and screwed it in, it is plenty solid/rigid. Space - 5-Star. For my purposes, I didn't utilize the passive heatsink as I needed to be able to fit a PoE hat. This case fit the SBC, a 40mm X 40mm X 5mm heatsink and the official PoE hat while also being able to put the lid on and screw it in. Having a couple of threaded holes on the lid for a camera or other mount point is great as well for those of you that need that expansion capability. Customizability 3-Star. While I don't need to customize this for my purposes, the ability to expand on this is limited to 4 punch-outs for small cables and/or antenna for a WiFi card, and the threaded hole on the lid for mounting a camera or other feature to.... That's it. If you don't need flexibility for your project (external access to GPIO pins, etc), then this isn't a consideration for you either, but if you're just looking to tinker and play, this case won't be great for that. Fit and Finish 5-Star. This board came without blemish, the stand-offs align perfectly with the holes in the board, the cut-outs for the I/O ports fit perfectly with no slop or tight fits. All things considered, I'd highly recommend this case for both home-labs and work-place SBCs alike.

Si adatta perfettamente, ce da tenere in considerazione che lo spessore dell'alluminio con cui e fatto il contenitore è molto fino, basta poco per piegarlo.

Obudowa ładna i lekka jednak niezbyt dobrze przemyślana pod względem miejsca na układ NVMe z radiatorem co utrudnia montaż

Sehr solides, sauber gefertigtes Gehäuse. Auf der Seite gibt es zwei abgedeckte Durchlässe für SMA-Stecker. Leider nur ein seitlicher Schlitz für die Gpio-Pins, das ist nur genug für ein Flachbandkabel. Auch der Maskrom-Button ist durch das Gehäuse nicht zu erreichen. Aber gut, den braucht man hoffentlich ohnehin nicht ständig.