“Fairly painless installation, had to adjust the positioning of the pi once or twice to get the layers to sit flat. Appreciate the spare bolts+nuts, since I managed to lose one. Nylon nuts were a bit difficult to start threading, easy once I'd got it started though. No issues so far with the power button level.”
“I had a nightmare with this case to be honest I had to Google how to put it together as it doesn't come with any instructions and at first wasnt clear to me, however its fairly obvious how it goes once I found a guide online and read the steps. It was a bit bit of a "oh yeah.... duh!" Moment. Once on it does look good i like the exposed active cooler look and is great for ventilation if u want to play with over clocking. My nightmare continued though as I found the sd card slot access a bit fiddly, I'd spent the day putting together a 512gb batocera image together on a brand new sd card only for me to not slot it in properly so once I started the pi it didn't load my image up. Then me trying to take the card out the pi to insert properly I ended up accidentally putting a bend in the card, I tried the sd card in my computer and it wouldn't recognise so I then tried to straighten the bend only to snap my card completely in half I wasn't best pleased at the time as u can imagine. However i have since then got a new card sorted that out with batocera again and carefully put it in the pi and it's running like a dream and looks good in the case”
“Certain things like the AI Kit, can have screws that are too short, at least on the bottom, as this case stacks up, not sure whether removing a piece can work?
It is meant to be an overall case to protect the base Pi, somewhat, not sure about shock damage but least the Pi is not out in the open completely but also not too covered up like the usual cases, so this is nice to be able to see inside.
My other concern is also the impact on temperature, with the active cooler its ok hovers around 55'c but could be improved I think.”
“Unfortunately I found out too late that the case is NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE NVME BASE since it is not made clear on the product page. Hacking it to make it fit doesn't seem possible, at least with the extremely short ribbon cable of the base, so as it stands I bought it for nothing. It seems to fit well with a bare RPi 5 however.”
