“The case itself is really great, with good built quality and good airflow!
The PiHut is one of the few stores that sells the new revision.
Shipment to Germany was relatively fast.”
“Now the fan and top vent have moved to the NVMe side, and the side vent on the NVMe side has been removed. The ventilation has been significantly improved. It not only cool down the CM5 heatsink, but also the NVMe drive. I have been using my CM5 as a low-power NAS drive.”
“Still selling this despite many forums pointing out major flaws. For example...no passive cooler can be mounted without moving the case fan on top of the case. This is an ugly hack and makes the fan susceptable to damage. Case design should always consider thermal factors as a priority. The fan alone is insufficient cooling for a Pi CM5.”
“I was intending to use the CM5, CM5/IO card and case as an arm64 Gentoo build system. However, the cooling provided by the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 IO Case is totally inadequate. Chromium takes 24 hours to build on a properly cooled P5 but the CM5, CM5/IO card in the Compute Module 5 IO Case goes into thermal throtting in a few minutes. I don't know what that will do to the Gentoo updates and I don't intend to find out.
The next step is to fit the CM5 cooler. Of course, it won't fit under the case fan. Not even if the fan fixing screws are reversed.
The case is well made ... if you want your Ferriari speed limited to 30 MPH and I don't. The cooling arrangements need some serious attention. I expected better from the Raspberry Pi Foundation.”
