I have a 4b not being used. I want to try using in Southeast Asia heat.
What would be be best silent case/cooling solution?
I will also need a power supply.
Will purchase in the US. choices are a bit overwhelming.
I have a 4b not being used. I want to try using in Southeast Asia heat.
What would be be best silent case/cooling solution?
I will also need a power supply.
Will purchase in the US. choices are a bit overwhelming.
A very popular choice is the Flirc case - I don't have any personal experience with it but other team members are quite happy with it.
Personally I use this "Armor case", as it still lets me access the GPIOs and one can plug in a HAT (eg audio card) with a GPIO "stack" header
There's also a variant which fully covers the RPi and GPIOs:
I also have the latter case but it seems - like with most cases that fully cover the RPi HDMI connectors - that you might not be able to fully insert the HDMI cable if the case or the HDMI connector is just 0.2-0.5mm too wide/thick.
so long,
Hias
I have several Armor cases and have put on a 50 mm 12V fan connected to 5V GPIO, cant hear it but my overclocked Pi4's never gets over 40C.
I am using the "Geekworm Raspberry Pi 4 Heavy-duty Aluminum Passive Cooling Metal Case" linked above. It works great, but WiFi does not work well due to the antenna being surrounded by metal.
But I love it because it keeps the RPi4 cool (currently 42.2c) without a fan and it looks nice on the desk.
I am using the "Geekworm Raspberry Pi 4 Heavy-duty Aluminum Passive Cooling Metal Case" linked above. It works great, but WiFi does not work well due to the antenna being surrounded by metal.
But I love it because it keeps the RPi4 cool (currently 42.2c) without a fan and it looks nice on the desk.
thanks for this, I will most likely need the wifi to work. I'd love to figure out a small fan, maybe Noctua.
Stay with the passive approach, and use external WiFi. You will have no driver issues with this, because it uses the Ethernet plug: