This build pulls off something pretty cool — a full desktop rig that actually goes places. We're talking a Ryzen 7 9800X3D paired with an RTX 5070 Founders Edition, all packed into an all-aluminum CNC-machined ITX case called the STC-06. The whole point? One machine you can actually carry around. Let's walk through how everything fits together.
The Case: STC-06
The STC-06 comes from Houtu (厚土公社), a smaller custom-chassis shop, and it's built as an all-aluminum CNC "sea-view" ITX case — basically, glass panels so you can actually see what's inside. What you get: portability and a solid metal finish, designed around a handle-carrying mini-ITX form factor instead of cramming in as much as possible.
Visually, it's this compact bronze-toned aluminum box with a finned top (better airflow, looks good too), tinted glass on two sides, and a thin base plate that keeps the whole chassis off your desk. There's an angled intake on the side with a ROG grille right over where the GPU sits — so even before you peek inside, you know cooling is part of the design story.
The Carry Handle Does Double Duty
Here's the clever bit: on that side intake, there's a machined aluminum frame that wraps around the case's intake fan and extends into a carry handle. That's the grab-and-go magic of the STC-06 — the part you hold when moving it is literally the trim ring around a working 120 mm intake fan.
Behind it sits a PCCOOLER R700 DCNC tower cooler handling the 9800X3D, with a RAM stick squeezed in tight beside it. Yeah, it's snug in there, but the layout keeps both the cooler fins and the memory visible through the glass, which is the whole point.
GPU and Power
The GPU is NVIDIA's RTX 5070 Founders Edition — and that blower design actually matters here. The shroud sits low in the chassis with a braided power cable looped cleanly underneath, and that sloped ROG grille above feeds the intake fan straight across its fins.
Power-wise, there's an ASUS ROG Loki 850W SFX-L tucked beside the case's open frame. The SFX-L format is the real hero here — it's compact enough to let a two-slot Founders Edition and a full-height tower cooler actually coexist in this tiny footprint.
Editor's Notes & Summary
The STC-06 does what it promises: an aluminum CNC mini-ITX chassis built for carrying, with a metal finish that feels solid at this level. If you need a full desktop that travels as one piece, this parts list is your starting point.
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
- Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix X870-I (ITX)
- Memory: Colorful Shadow II 16GB × 2, DDR5 6400 C28
- SSD: ZhiTai TiPlus7100 2TB
- GPU: NVIDIA RTX 5070 Founders Edition (reference)
- Case: STC-06 all-aluminum ITX
- PSU: ASUS ROG Loki 850W SFX-L
- Cooler: PCCOOLER R700 DCNC
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