“Bought this about a week ago for my Raspberry Pi 4. I wanted to have some sort of cooling on it and a case but didn’t want a fan that could be noisy. This is perfect for my needs. It is very sturdy, zero noise (obviously) and easy to assemble. My Raspberry Pi runs at around 38 degree Celsius idle and around 44 degree Celsius on full load. It has a space to expose the pins but I don’t use any of the pins. So, I can’t comment on how well it works with the pins.
Only issue, if I really have to mention one, would be that the thermal pad ripped when I was peeling off the protective paper (I was being careful). But this might have just been a one off issue with mine. I just put it together. So, it’s not much of an issue at all.”
“Brilliant engineering - aesthetically pleasing. I am building a Kubernetes cluster so bought 5 of these heatsink cases in different colours. Every colour looks great!”
“The aluminum heatsink quality is perfect, however the heatsink pads supplied don't seperate from the protective film easily. Smallest pad broke up and was totally unusable, medium one broke but was still able to be used.”
“Works as expected, with the same load and same conditions:
RPi 4 with small heatsink: ~61°C average, 74°C peak.
RPi 4 with this heatsink: ~48°C average, 54°C peak.”
“I had the review commnet (that was "This product is so very fine/nice that no extra cooling fan is required." )
Today, this is the additional information for those who are very interested in the overclocking on RPI 4B.
On your responsibility, it is fun to challenge the overclocking with this fine Heatsink.
On my case, after learned from advance user's comment in RPI forum. I did established the new world of my RPI4B-4GB.
I could put the overclocking kicker with following three text lines into /boot/config.txt.
over_voltage=4
arm_freq =2000
gpu_freq=500
With the great cooling performance of this good-design-heatsink, it is never heat over 60℃ even though above overclocking situation.
Enjoy your overlocking - if you want to do !!”
