Disassembled, the Streacom BC1 Mini is very flat and perfectly suited for transport. The base plate is made entirely of anodized aluminum and weighs less than one kilogram with all accessories. The workmanship and the painting of all components is of very high quality. However, with a price of € 193.70 * you should be able to expect this. Features that the benchtable was built to be as transportable as possible can be seen in the fact that the base plate is equipped with a recessed grip.
But as already mentioned, the design of the BC1 Mini is based on high functionality. Even when disassembled, all components required for assembly are still located on the body of the bench. No screw is lost and everything has its fixed place. After a glance at the instructions and some practice, the BC1 Mini can be assembled within a few minutes and completely without tools.
The workmanship of the Streacom BC1 Mini is on a very high level. The aluminum elements are cleanly manufactured and anodized. Despite the low weight all components feel very high quality.
Now we come to the system installation. As hardware we use an AMD Ryzen 5 1600 on a Gigabyte B450 I Aorus Pro WIFI with Crucial Ballistix Sport LT grey 32 GB DDR4-3000. The Ryzen is cooled by a Noctua NH-L12 Ghost S1. For the image output a GTX 1060 6GB from Gigabyte AORUS is responsible. The power supply is done by the fully modular >a href=”https://amzn.to/3pA8HSQ”> Corsair SF450 Gold with 450W.
A Benchtable is of course always made for quick component changes. Since there are no side walls, glass windows or other things, the installation of all components was quickly completed. In addition, all PC components including the hard disk can be installed completely without tools. As befits a test system, there are almost no size restrictions for hardware components. For CPU coolers and graphics cards there are no restrictions at all, but the SFX power supply must not be longer than 160 millimeters. This does not occur in this category anyway.
A radiator can also be attached to the BC1 Mini. Due to its small dimensions, however, it may be a maximum of 170 millimeters wide. The radiator is locked in place by means of two brackets that have to be screwed to the body.
Since the temperatures of all components when using a benchtable depend only on the thermal paste used and the ambient temperature, we have not included a stress test here.