“This case is barely bigger than the Pi itself. All of the external ports remain accessible. I have one of these housing a Pi 4 acting as a two-monitor thin client. Through passive cooling the case keeps the Pi running at luke warm. The engineering of this die-cast box is precise and clean: it is a perfectly acceptable piece of desk furniture.”
“Fairly well designed case. However the instructions for fitting the heat sink thermal pad are not very good. It’s not clear which side of the pad contacts the processor chip. The pad is not very sticky, is it supposed to be?
The case is very thin doe cast aluminium, it looks cheaply made. I did not consider it to be very good value for money at £16.
I’d think twice about buying another at the price.”
“Very neat, effective. Not quite enough cooling if you plan to leave the Pi on 24/7 working hard, but in other scenarios it is really good. I added a finned heatsink to the top instead of the silly black plastic insert, and I spray painted the case Raspberry Red. As it is aluminium, mods like that are really easy. Very nicely made, fits together well, ports are all well lined up. And not expensive! A second, larger version which puts all the ports on one edge would be nice, especially if it added a power button.”
“Very impressive cooling, especially as it's all passive. I bought this for an 8GB RasPi 4B. To test the cooling, I ran a stress test on it for 20 mins with all the CPU cores fully loaded at 100%. The results? The temperature stabilised at 60C and there was no throttling at anytime. The case got warm, but not excessively - you could still comfortably hold it.
The case itself is very nicely made, with excellent tolerances and looks really good. The only disadvantage to it, is you can't directly mount any hats on the Pi, but you can feed a ribbon cable out of the case if you need connectivity to the GPIO pins. The SD card is easily accessible if you need to change that.
All in all, it's an excellent case that I'd highly recommend, unless you specifically need to put a hat on your Pi.”
