Aluminium Armour - Heatsink Case for Raspberry Pi 4 Black Reviews

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“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.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“A very reasonable price accessory to go with my new Pi 4. Seems to be keeping the working temperature quite well. Well recommended.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“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.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Excellent !”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Perfect”

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Posted 5 years ago

“The case looks nice, feels solid and is compact CPU/GPU temperatures stayed around 60 celsius while listening to a podcast and running a 4k demo video from YouTube (and running a polling script via ssh). The case itself got hot to touch, not burning, but hot. I'm also a tad worried that I will at some point somehow mange to short circuit this full metal cage ;P What I miss most from this (and most other cases) are options to attach them to something else. Mounting holes would be nice.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“... and nice ! i have tested other cases for the raspberry pi 4, and it is the only one which satisfies me”

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Posted 5 years ago

“This is a great heatsink case without question……. With one small manufacturing modification and it would be a 5 star fantastic case. If the fixing holes in the top part had been drilled and tapped all the way through it would be possible to securely mount a hat above the heat sink, as it is, any attached hat is only attached by the GPIO connector.”

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Posted 5 years ago