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Review on ๐Ÿฅง Vilros Raspberry Pi 4 4GB Basic Kit: Stay Cool with Fan Cooled Case by John Naidu

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Good kit, fan is not very.

Quick guide: Power is the 2nd pin and ground is the 3rd pin on the extreme pins. It can be seen in the second photo. The fan is too, too loud, I mean ridiculously loud. If you use this as a media player, it cannot be used. So I bought a Noctua NF-A4x20 5V PWM, Premium Quiet Fan 40x20mm. It's only 14.9 dB. I had an 80mm USB fan that was supposed to be 23dB but even that is loud. Yes, the Noctua fan is way too big for this case, I cut open the case, inserted the fan right over the thermal synchronizer and literally hot glued it. The Noctua fan has an adapter for power and ground. Cut the leads of the supplied fan, strip all 4 wires, solder the wires and wrap them with electrical tape. Other Notes: The HDMI port closest to the power source should be used. Without the fan processor it was 145F, with the fan processor around 100F at idle.

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