“Great heatsink, complete with little heat pads to put between the chips and the 'case'. However the edges of the PCB etc are exposed, and there is enough space for dirt etc to get in, so if you are looking for a protective case, this might not be the one for you.
As my pi will be running 24.7 in a clean environment, I'm very happy with this 'case'”
“It's very well made, I don't know for sure if the three zones are actually touching the three chipsets, but at least for the processor it seems to be working because it doesn't get hotter than about 50 degrees. I'd highly recommend that to anyone using the Pi in a warm environment or as a desktop computer.”
“I have 4 identical Pi4's, 2 with this heatsink/case and 2 with the fan-assisted version, currently sat side-by-side.
The fan-assisted machines are running Pi-Hole DNS; one "fanless" is running MariaDB and the other Apache2 with Wordpress.
The fan-assisted cases are showing idle temps of 43.8-44.8 centigrade, the fanless cases 51.0-52.0 centigrade, in a room with an ambient temperature of 23.8 degrees. So thermally, they're not quite as effective as the fan-assisted cases, but they are, however, silent.
These cases are *beautifully* engineered and machined, they fit perfectly and they are tough and sturdy - enough to protect the delicate Pi board from scrapes and perhaps even being dropped.
Pi4's run hot, as we know - and these cases go a long way to addressing that, even if the temperatures aren't quite as low as I would like - but they are still well below throttling limits.
Overall extremely pleased with the result - to the extent that I bought 2 extra fanless cases to replace the fan-assisted units on my PiHole machines (because the fans, being small, are audibly noisy).
I've read on the web that even better performance can be had by ignoring the blue thermal pad that is provided for the ARM CPU and instead using thermal grease like Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut. I've bought some and will try it when I swap in the 2 extra fanless cases I have, and add an update.
For the money, you just can't go wrong. Excellent quality, robust, effective. Sorted!
For the price, I honestly don't think this level of performance will be beaten.”
