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Review on πŸ”₯ GeeekPi Raspberry Pi 4 Case with ICE Tower Fan - RGB Cooling, Heatsink, and Model B Compatibility by Quvarious Morrow

Revainrating 5 out of 5

don't overdo it!

Be careful when tightening the combination of screws and brass bushings, if you use them the bushings will damage the plastic by being 'pulled' into the plastic as the bushings have a very small diameter and concentrate all your clamping force on a small piece of plastic. Also, the base of the heat pipe assembly doesn't make physical contact with the processor if you're using a laminated plastic case. I preferred to use brass extensions and just a layer of plastic as a base. This configuration is preferable (to me) because the base with heat pipes makes physical contact with the processor and allows you to use thermal paste instead of thermal tape. . As I said, the instructions supplied are useless, my reason for the three stars, but the images of the product provided by amazon allow different options to be put together with a little trial and error. I love the Raspberry Pi Model 4 heat pipe and fan kit, the heat pipe provides excellent cooling. I have 11 Raspberry Pi; 6X Pi-3 and 5X Pi-4. The pi-3 cools well with an aluminum chassis (remember to use thermal tape liberally), while the pi-4 cools best with a heat pipe and fan. You can test your cooling solution by running pi-stress-test, search for "raspberry pi stress test", it's easy to do, it takes 15 minutes. enjoy your pi.

Pros
  • Delivery was very quick
Cons
  • Large and bulky