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Yeah, there were a limited number of cheap cases big enough for the CPU cooler and with enough ventilation for fanless. There's a caddy that goes down that empty bit at the front for 4x HDDs which I didn't bother with (although it was described as extremely compact on the blurb, it's a Fractal Design Core 1300).
Only one SSD, SFX size PSU, no optical drives and no video card makes for an easy build and lots of space.
Processor seemed to work fine cheers.
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New PC build time. Building up a fanless, headless Plex server. Cost about £250, took a couple of hours to build up. All pretty straightforward apart from forgetting to plug in the 4 pin, square power supply to the motherboard (which I've forgotten on pretty much every build I've done for some reason). Trouble shooting power issues on a PC with no fans and no HDDs is a bit tricky as you can't tell whether anything is actually turned on or not.
The CPU cooler, one of these http://www.nofancomputer.com/eng/products/CR-80EH.php , is pretty sizeable, need to see how it actually performs as to whether I can get away without a case fan. Seems to idle at about 50 degrees which seems a bit high but I haven't tested it much as Virgin decided to turn my internet off last night so limited on what I could install.