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!

  • Ace@feddit.uk
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    5 months ago

    I’ve just bought a 5 with the fan case, and it’s kind of ridiculous that it needs active cooling while under no load. I’m sort of disappointed how much power it draws. The whole point of a pi is supposed to be that it’s tiny and uses almost no power. My previous pi3 would be cold while idle and only ever got “warmish” under load and no active cooling.

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    5 months ago

    I realize that in all reality I was a fool for not getting the Pineberry bottom NVME HAT so that I could still put an ICE tower on the Pi board, but I’m in too deep now