“Although a beautifully made case with very effective heat dissipation there are two problems with it. Firstly the metal of the case (which is the reason heat dissipation is so effective) blocks a siginicant amount of wifi signal. Previously I was able to connect to a particular AP and then stay with it for ever, with the Argon case connections would drop, reconnect somewhere else, or lose all connectivity for a while. Secondly the power button, fan control, IR receiver all use GPIO pins but these weren't specified and so there was a danger that pins in use by the case would be inadvertently resused. I did contact the manufacturers about the wifi problem but they didn't bother to reply - I guess it is a know issue which they cannot fix.
In summary if you only connect via LAN cable and are careful with GPIO connectivity it is a splendid case and the features such as fan control and heat dissipation are great. If you need wifi and are some distance from the router then beware.”
“This is - of course - a beautifully designed case. I do like the full-size HDMI sockets and booting from the SSD was easy to set up. Less good (for some) may be its shielding of the Wifi signal (I use a telephone hot spot and merely keep the phone close to the Case). The infra-red receiver is a feature I will use. So all in all I am very happy with this case... it really does propel the Pi4 into a main PC contender.”
“Excellent little case! Highly recommended to anyone considering it.
The only criticism is that it should really come with one additional thing - an easy way of connecting the SSD in the case to a USB cable for your PC.
I got hold of a "USB 3 Male to Type C Female" adapter and I can confirm that it makes reinstalling SO much quicker and easier, and you don't have to take the case apart.”
“Lovely case, easy to fit and very well made. The only let down is a slightly noisy fan. Which I may try to find a quieter replacement for. I have it running Home Assistant with a 256Gb M2 drive.”
“Excellent case, but the usb to usb dongle is faulty, the pi4 won't boot. Replace it with a usb to usb cable and it boots up. Am currently waiting for Argon to send a replacement. Still an excellent case though.”
“Very pleased with the case, great to have all the connections on one side which keeps it neat. Although larger than a standard Pi case it takes up less room with all the connection at the rear. Full size HDMI are great idea but I run my Pi headless. My Pi 4 is used as a reverse proxy server and boots from a M.2 Sata SSD. The only downside is the fan is a little noisy. The fan did stop working after a reboot, I took the case apart, could not see anything wrong and the fan is running again My Pi 4 currently running at 37C in an room temperature 21C. When the fan was not working it was running at 47C which is still ok.”
