“Three coolers are fantastic, and there's no recommendation required but if you have a pi 5 you need some sort of cooling solution. These are well priced and easy to fit”
“I would have given between 2 and 3 stars, it's barely worth the money you pay for. It came with the thermal pads misplaced, a minor inconvenient as they can be removed and placed in the proper place before you install it, but the thickness of the pads (1mm I guess) was not adequate for all the devices. The CPU is the thickest among them and the pad thickness is OK but for the memory chip I had to use a 2mm thick pad instead of the one provided with the heatsink. Even the WiFi chip seems to need a thicker pad as, looking at it, once the cooler is installed, you can see that the heatsink seems just to rest on the pad, without squeezing, not even a bit. For the time being I've left it as is.”
“Once installed correctly, the fan works well. But the flimsy plastic pogo pins that hold the fan in place are just that: way too flimsy. Effectively, this is an install-once-never-remove product. I had to remove it after I discovered that layer 3 of the Pibow case needs to go on first. This one-time removal, in which I promise I was very careful, already slightly damaged one plastic pin. It gave me a lot of trouble when reinstalling. This product should at least come with one or two spare pins but, ideally, that fixation mechanism should be redesigned to be way more robust.”
