“I'm running home assistant, etc with my raspberry pi 5 with the FLIRC 5 case. It dropped from idle around 45-47 celsius to 27-29 celsius idle. Great in my book. Installation could be simpler.
Shipment was horrendously long to Sweden, but, finally it arrived.”
“Great case. Easy to put together, and it holds the Pi really well.
Easy access to the SD card, and all connections.
I have two of these now, and if, (ok, when!), I buy another Pi I will buy another of these cases.”
“Good case, I like the aluminium (not a fan of plastic). My only niggle (and the reason its 4 not 5 out of 5) is that the description is not quite clear enough: it contains a big aluminium chunk that makes contact with the CPU (passive heatsink), meaning an internal fan cannot be used. The description does make it clear that the GPIO pins are not accessible, but not the fan. A better design would be to have this as a seperate removable contact/heatsink. So, I had to drill around this and cut it out - fortunately the outser case covers up the hole. My fault - should have looked more carefully at the photos.”
