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Review on ๐Ÿ“ฆ GeeekPi Acrylic Case with Cooling Fan and Heatsinks for Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (Only for Pi 4) - Black and Clear by Michael Robertson

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Cools my Raspberry Pi 4 under load

I chose this case for a Raspberry PI 4 (4GB memory) that I use to run an OpenCV application that tracks specific cars in an RTSP stream. The kit consists of layers of acrylic plastic that form a case with matching screws, fan and heatsinks. Assembly is pretty easy if you follow the tutorial video. Since I wanted to attach a "hat" I also ordered some GPIO header extensions to make the GPIO header big enough to attach a hat. I used some male/female jumpers to increase the length of the fan cables. For testing, I started compiling OpenCV 4 without the fan header and then plugged it in after the CPU temp stabilized at around 80C. Below is the log of the shell command I used to monitor the CPU showing the fan dropping the temperature from 80 to 50 seconds. I think this set is great value for money. :42:45 81.0'C 1500MHz 0100000000000000000 0.8349V09:43:45 81.0'C 1500MHz 0100000000000000000 0.8349V09:44:45 81.0'C 1500MHz 0100000000000000010 0.8349V09:45:45 82.0'C 1000MHz 0100000000000000010 0.8349V09:46:45 82.0' C 1500MHz 0100000000000000010 0.8402V09:47:46 81.0'C 1500MHz 0100000000000000010 0.8296V09:48:46 74.0'C 1500MHz 0100000000000000000 0.8402V09:49:46 64.0'C 1500MHz 0100000000000000000 0.8349V09:50:46 61.0'C 1500MHz 0100000000000000000 0.8349V09: 51:46 58.0'C 1500MHz 0100000000000000000 0.8402V09:52:46 57.0'C 1500MHz 0100000000000000000 0.8402V09:53:47 55.0'C 1500MHz 0100000000000000000 0.8402V09:54:47 54.0'C 1500MHz 0100000000000000000 0.8402VTime Temp CPU Throttle Vcore09:55: 47 52.0'C 1500 MHz 01000000000000000000 0.8402V09: 56: 47 54.0'C 1500 MHz 0100000000000000 0.8402 V09: 57 53.0'C 1500 MHz 0100000000000 0.8402V09: 58: 47 53.0,8MHz 0100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 completely C 1500MHz 01000000000000000.84400:43.0100. 'C 1500MHz 0100000000000000000 0.8402V10:02:48 50.0'C 1500MHz 01000000000000000000 0.8402V

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  • Style 90