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How To Improve Pi 5 Cooling (kbin.run)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I've got an 8GB Pi 5 with the offical Active Cooler and then the Pineberry NVME HAT on top in the Pi52 tall alumnium cooling case and thermals are not great. Looking for guidance and/or recommendations.

I already have the active cooler so I'm all out of fan headers, and I have 3 hard drives plugged in so I'm not sure about powering a whole USB fan.

I saw that Noctua finally came out with their desk fan and thought that may be a perfect solution. I was thinking of just slapping it under the Pi, but I was wondering if this would even make a difference.

Also wondering what the best configuration would be between push/pull & bottom/top or if anybody has better ideas, I'm all ears. Thank y'all!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

UPDATE: Got the new Noctua desk fan and slapped it on top of my Pi, seems to have lowered temps by 20 DEGREES. According to my monitoring, I was around 70 before and now I'm around 50. So it seems way more than worth it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

That's epic. Mine is running at around 55°, so I'd call that a certified win. Congrats!