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Passive Cooled Case for Raspberry Pi $9.89USD ~ $12.65AUD Delivered @ Banggood app

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Spotted a passive cooled raspberry pi case for some silent cooling of those OC'd pi's out there.
The sink contacts both sides of the CPU and the Network controller.
Suits: B/B+/PI2/PI3

One of the reviews note that WiFi is slightly affected by the case, so may not be ideal if youre already struggling for signal.

Alloy or Black

Much cheaper than the $28ish to get the Flirc case delivered. Should have similar cooling properties too

How to get price:

1) Download Banggood app here
2) Add the case you want to cart
3) Add 10% off coupon from app order
3.1) if 10% off coupon does not appear you may need a new account with BG. It still works for me after my 1st purchase.
4) Checkout

Review:
Got exactly what I expected. I could see the case wouldn't make that large of a contact point with the cpu from the pictures before bying but I also ordered some copper shims to fix that. Otherwise it's a nice pi case for the price that does exactly what it says. Didn't make very good contact so had to add a bit of extra arctic silver 5 to get the SOC to even reach the case "pin". Running for about 3 minutes full load on all cores overclocked to 1.3Ghz it reached about 56c. In the long run it seems to reach 65c wit the case top being 39c. With long run being 15 minutes. With better contact temps will be even lower. So I'm a very happy camper.

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  • GLO on 03/02/2018 - 10:27

    Side question.

    Can a raspberry pie bye good with this case, for home security camera software?

    • Hirolol on 03/02/2018 - 10:33

      I think people have used it for that.
      If you search other deals you could find info in the comments

    • chumbucket on 03/02/2018 - 10:42

      I guess it would depend on the requirements of your software. if it is already already stable on a ras pi then the case certainly wont inhibit performance.

  • Hirolol on 03/02/2018 - 10:34

    Do copper shims absorb heat?
    Is it real copper or a coating?

    • chumbucket on 03/02/2018 - 10:38
      +1

      the copper shim would only act as a conductor to transmit the heat from the device to the heatsink. I would imagine you could use any thermally conductive material, including aluminium, just be careful you dont use one that is too different galvanically otherwise you may end up with corrosion

      edit: the guy in the review may have purchased these. I ordered mine last week so im not sure of the tolerances etc. But you may be able to get away with using a cleaned/trimmed off piece of soda can and plenty of thermal paste

      • Hirolol on 03/02/2018 - 17:31

        Ok thank you

      • Rutger on 03/02/2018 - 18:36

        Galvanic corrosion requires an electrolyte. If it didn't cars, circuit boards and probably most metal items would corrode without exposure to an electrolye. They don't.

        • chumbucket on 03/02/2018 - 20:40

          Cars circuit boards to corrode. Electrolyte presence while improbable is not impossible. Especially if you live near the ocean. Or a bad selection of thermal paste may contain duct electricity. Although in hindsight worrying about corrosion in your 30 dollar PC isn't really a priority.

  • solidussnake on 03/02/2018 - 11:20

    I have the metal case with the fan from light in the box cant even hear mine running. And it was similar pricing.

    • chumbucket on 03/02/2018 - 12:07

      depends on your needs i guess. I had a look at that version, and honestly Pi's run fine without any case and natural convection, I was going to try and play around with overclocking and from what i've read thermal throttling becomes a big issue when pushing the boundaries of the pi.

      Would you mind being part of a little experiment? can you run the following code in 'terminal' with your case fan running?

      while true; do vcgencmd measure_clock arm; vcgencmd measure_temp; sleep 10; done& stress -c 4 -t 900s

      Its a stress test that indicates how effective the cooling is in your system in relation to your clock speed.
      When my case arrives ill try the same thing and post my results here.

  • [Deactivated] on 03/02/2018 - 11:25

    Hey what os should I install to get the best browser experience?

    • chumbucket on 03/02/2018 - 11:38
      +1

      I tried raspbian, but moved over to Ubuntu Mate because i like the UX more. Also better integrated with firefox if that tickles your pickle. only had the pi for 3 days now though, so I havent had a chance to properly test it.

      I mainly wanted the pi for low power Proof of Staking with crypto, hence the need of large quiet cooling.

  • altomic on 03/02/2018 - 12:28

    I'd prefer aggressive cooling, but each to their own.

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