There is one more test you need to do. Put the Noctua fan on the Ice Tower
@ExplainingComputers
5 жыл бұрын
An, I never thought of that. :) Nice idea.
@LDWilliams
5 жыл бұрын
@@ExplainingComputers We await your results :)
@Gg_system
5 жыл бұрын
i had the same thought
@DudeSkinnyTall
5 жыл бұрын
Someone is aiming to achieve room temperature)))
@LDWilliams
5 жыл бұрын
@@DudeSkinnyTall Come over here to the UK in winter :-D
@AgeingBoyPsychic
4 жыл бұрын
I have the Ice Tower for the 4B. I first attached it with one of the heat pads that came in the box, and got a very respectable *idle temperature of about 32C.* After watching this, I remembered I had some Arctic MX-2 thermal paste left from building my PC, so I removed the pad and put some paste on the chip, and assembled it again. This time the *idle temperature was 26C!* So it really is worth getting some thermal paste if you want to get the absolute best results from this great cooler. Also, the newest firmware (as of March 2020) reduces CPU temps by around 10C by limiting power to the USB bus. It also allows you to overclock both the CPU to 2GHZ and the GPU to 600MHZ (which does void your warranty). So having this cooler and upgrading the firmware is a must if you want to overclock!
@gerg5555
5 жыл бұрын
I don't even have a Raspberry Pi, but these videos are so relaxing and well made I watch them all anyways lol..
@starttherebellion9146
5 жыл бұрын
I know right!? Chris just has such a positive and warm way of presenting things. It really makes you want to watch! - I don't have an SBC yet either, but this is making me want one, lol.
@typingcat
5 жыл бұрын
You, sir, need ASMR videos. I recommend kzitem.info/news/bejne/r4GXmnqlnHSpfaQ
@Andytlp
5 жыл бұрын
just call it what it is asmr
@starttherebellion9146
5 жыл бұрын
No, it's called CHARISMA. 👍
@send2gl
5 жыл бұрын
Buy one, put it in a Pimoroni case and just put it on the side board, great ornament.
@Ceielo
2 жыл бұрын
11:09 That excitement is such an unexpected feel good moment. Loving this.
@bradmonk69
5 жыл бұрын
I was getting ready to comment about running the tower cooler with some MX4 instead of thermal pads.. then you pull out a tube of MX4. Good lad.
@thegardenofeatin5965
4 жыл бұрын
Would be another datapoint, do the test again with a thermal pad instead of the paste to see what the difference in performance there is.
@bradmonk69
3 жыл бұрын
@Dmon1Unlimited I remember quite a few years ago I was using the original pi with thermal pads (Akasa) along with a generic ram heatsink and was getting ~10°C over ambient temperature, which was pretty good considering the cost for it all. Keep in mind that I was also using these in conjunction with a very small (40mm) casefan I had rigged up, running it of the USB port.
@Samuel-km5yf
5 жыл бұрын
I like this guy’s style. Smooth. Concise. Informative. No rambling.
@caseygtr
5 жыл бұрын
It like a tiny gaming rig. Wish there was a tiny little graphics card you could plug on to it. So cute.
@ExplainingComputers
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, it so needs a tiny graphics card.
@mitchellspanheimer1803
3 жыл бұрын
Maybe one that plugs into the DSI connector?
@beachsex
4 жыл бұрын
I have just setup my pi with an ice tower + noctua. The fan is connected to the 3.3v pin and is basically silent. A bit overkill but It works beautifully! 👍 Thanks for the great video!
@VIPINSAINI_20
5 жыл бұрын
I really love SBC Videos. I always love your work
@jikemenkins7098
5 жыл бұрын
Your videos are excellent. Your narration is excellent. The way you deliver information is top level professional.
@toysareforboys1
5 жыл бұрын
Love the cuts to the high resolution close up photos, nice editing, thanks!
@jasontiscione1741
5 жыл бұрын
Looking forward to the review of the official Raspberry Pi 4 AIO water pump!
@_ryukora
5 жыл бұрын
That was i thinking about it
@educational9533
5 жыл бұрын
Missed title name: slowly building up the rasperry pi until we can no longer call it a 'small' computer.
@FatNorthernBigot
5 жыл бұрын
I've never seen anyone so excited to see a blue LED. The ice tower does look like a beast, though 😀
@chainarispadungkul8245
4 жыл бұрын
He He He
@tomknapp6194
5 жыл бұрын
I have to admit that I was not thinking, "Yeah, but how does the Ice Tower perform without the fan?" Good job on being thorough.
@gregoryturner1505
4 жыл бұрын
I now have two ice tower cooing solutions on the way. I thought I purchased adequate cooling until I ran "stress" and hit 80 C in less than five minutes. Thanks again for your videos.
@geoffreyjohnstone5465
5 жыл бұрын
I think the Fan Shim is excellent and makes the Pi4 seem like a Pi SBC . Whilst the result of the ICE Tower is incredibly impressive, I just think it makes the Pi4 seem too big and, for me anyway, it goes against the point of the Pi SBC form factor. It does mean there is a fair bit of head room for overclocking the Pi4 though.
@DanafoxyVixen
5 жыл бұрын
I can see the Fan Shim board connectors succumb to huge oxidation issues down the line. It really needs a proper connector or to be soldered into place
@0dyss3us51
5 жыл бұрын
This is really fun, I can warmly reccomend the Flirc case it is made of solid aluminium with a heatsink, and so it is soundless
@microgamestation
5 жыл бұрын
Return of the radical cooling! Your excitement for the ICE Tower is contagious. Cool video.
@MusicPlusBooks
4 жыл бұрын
When you exclaimed "it's even illuminated" though. Adorbs!!!
@uss_04
5 жыл бұрын
EC: Explaining Cooling
@MicrobyteAlan
5 жыл бұрын
Very interesting. Back in the day, we’d test the fans every week. It was easier than troubleshooting a heat related issue. Thanks from Orlando.
@robertfletcher3421
5 жыл бұрын
That ICE Tower does a fantastic job it opens up the Pi4 to a lot more tasks. Thanks Chris.
@nighthawkvc25a
5 жыл бұрын
So much excitement for blue LED (@ 11:07). We can only imagine how much more exciting it would be with full RGB!
@kevindeng1889
5 жыл бұрын
The V2.0 support the RGB FAN,you can check it here kzitem.info/news/bejne/p5mftKOqq2iVaZw
@bubba842
4 жыл бұрын
I would definitely recommend active cooling. My pi 3 could barely run KZitem before I installed a heat sink and fan. Plus I couldn't run Ubuntu Mate without it crashing after 5 mins. Once I installed the fan I had no problems.
@StarcleBlaze
5 жыл бұрын
Looks like a mini hyper 212 evo ;)
@kyoudaiken
4 жыл бұрын
Came back to this video when I put together a Raspberry Pi 4B bundle! Thanks for making this video, so I could now buy the best cooler for it. :)
@ExplainingComputers
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching -- and note my follow-up video, with some updated results and more options! :)
@kennethflorek8532
5 жыл бұрын
Mr. Icetower is the cutest heatpipe heatsink I have ever seen. It is so sweet I'm getting a toothache.
@jerrygundecker743
5 жыл бұрын
I'm looking forward to when Raspberry sends you a kit for a quantum computer and you show us how to have our own. Cheers.
@ExplainingComputers
5 жыл бұрын
:)
@glyphidgrunt
4 жыл бұрын
Just put it in a fridge
@call_me_stan5887
5 жыл бұрын
This ICE tower cooler is AMAZING! What a lovely cooling solution!
@rapscallion3506
5 жыл бұрын
The early raspberries were phenomenal in the size of a cigarette box. Now with their advance to higher power, they have turned into masonry bricks once the performance improving gadgets are buckled on. Such a trade-off.
@Tiger351
5 жыл бұрын
Wow those are impressive figures from the Ice Tower, it makes the Pi look very gamer too lol, I can't help but think it needs a miniaturised version of the desktop case you used in your Ryzen 3 build.
@willyjimmy8881
4 жыл бұрын
Tetris in 1080p
@michelfilion5482
5 жыл бұрын
Nice..! The ICE Tower Cooler gives it a little ''je ne sais quoi''. I can see that on my desktop.
@blackfedora81
4 жыл бұрын
I have a cooling solution that you might like to replicate / test: It consists of a small normal heat sink, a small (approx. 8 fl. oz) pure copper cup, some paper napkins wrapped around the outside of the cup and held in place with elastic bands. The cup is placed on the heat sink and filled with ice. Pros : cheap, silent, keeps the soc extremely cool under virtually any load. Cons : condensation can be an issue if left unchecked, ice requires periodic replacement.
@karinejohannecharlot1781
5 жыл бұрын
People with pets or young children may want to add a fan grid to the ICE tower. Looking forward to seeing results using the Pi4 Flirc case and the Pimoroni aluminium Heatsink case.
@jq747
5 жыл бұрын
Raspberry Pi 4: The Pentium-4 of SBCs
@abzzeus
5 жыл бұрын
When you disconnected the fan, it became a an air baffle that heavily restricted airflow across the cooler. I'd repeat the test with the fan uncrewed and a belt and braces, with the fins vertically to see if convection occurs - I doubt it but it might
@zerodefcts
5 жыл бұрын
Awesome stuff! All tests completed in 10 minutes, so computational performance seems the same. I agree a good passive solution is ideal. Can't wait for your next video!
@srtcsb
5 жыл бұрын
And it's ICE Tower for the win! The prices on these coolers are all very reasonable also. I'd like to get some plastic sheet and build a case around the Pi 4 with the ICE Tower installed. I know 3D printers are the big thing now, but I'd go 'old school' for a project like this. Thanks for another great video Chris.
@ExplainingComputers
5 жыл бұрын
I like building from plastic sheet too. :)
@nullzero821
5 жыл бұрын
ice ice baby! next video, liquid cooled overclocking raspberry pi 4! :D
@kirkd1502
5 жыл бұрын
This KZitemr is great also...and has done a liquid cool on a prior pi version. kzitem.info/news/bejne/24GAuJaZpn2aeYY
@markconger8049
5 жыл бұрын
Liquid cooling the SoC is actually not as effective as a fan. Apparently, more than the SoC generates heat.
@markuswohlrab8356
5 жыл бұрын
OH! ITS BLUE! It s amazing!!! I love it. It's blue. So cool ...
@m0rkvarg
5 жыл бұрын
Congratiulations to 500k subscribers!
@ExplainingComputers
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Special video tomorrow. :)
@DeadNoob451
5 жыл бұрын
That tower cooler is so cute. And it seems like a neat fit for emulator boxes that dont need to be super small but could really use some overclocking. Also maybe it work work better passively if it was at a 90° angle so the warm air can pass through the fins better.
@KingJellyfishII
5 жыл бұрын
Right imma buy that ice tower right now. Those are some amazing temps
@metalheadmalta
5 жыл бұрын
The ICE Tower visuals and the cooling offered are certainly impressive, but, always in my humble opinion, spoil what is one of the biggest advantages of the pi... the small size factor. Having said that it really looks cool and I'll agree it would look awesome in a custom built case... say, an Artoo unit... Thanks for this video!
@defeqel6537
5 жыл бұрын
Very impressed by the cooler, and the attention to detail with the package contents, but would agree that it seems to go against the spirit of the Pi.
@danieljuno810
2 жыл бұрын
i use the Ice tower and a clear case similar to his with my Minecraft server running, the pi 4B slightly overclocked and added heat sinks for the other chips on board. The Pis cpu runs at 42.3C and its currently 80F in the house. Way better then any other heatsink with fan case ive used.
@artmcteagle
5 жыл бұрын
Congrats on the 500K! That's awesome and well deserved!
@ExplainingComputers
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks.
@milankostic5401
5 жыл бұрын
Some regular 60 mm fan, set at low speed to not be noisy would probably be most effective as it will remove potentional heat from everything 😂.
@levilevis9032
4 жыл бұрын
Computers really are an amazing thing to behold.
@perrymcclusky4695
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for these cooling tests. Looking forward to your passive cooling tests! By the way, I now have a Raspberry Pi 4 Computer Desktop Kit. Your video on it was a great influence in my ordering it. Thanks!
@DanafoxyVixen
5 жыл бұрын
I can see the Fan Shim board connectors succumb to huge oxidation issues down the line. It really needs a proper connector or to be soldered into place
@Britonbear
5 жыл бұрын
Would have been interesting to see the difference between the thermal pad and thermal compound.
@twmbarlwmstar
5 жыл бұрын
I've seen a few 86_64 tests and it is minimal, I now use the pads for SBC and some 86_64. Temperatures aren't so critical because the overclocking thing isn't the same, just keep below throttling and really you are done- unlike competative 86-64 overclocking.
@jimcarriesa1911
5 жыл бұрын
Would have been cool to see the difference between ice cooler with pad vs paste
@perrymcclusky4695
5 жыл бұрын
Jim Evans yes I was thinking of the same thing!
@johnm2012
5 жыл бұрын
I would expect paste to give the better results as long as the mounting brackets allow enough pressure to be applied
@ninline2000
5 жыл бұрын
The Flirc case for the Pi4 works very well as a passive cooler. Nothing is going to top the Ice Cooler though for active cooling or for geek points.
@lorderectus1849
2 жыл бұрын
Chris got so excited 😆 with his new 52pi fanny!
@crazyrussianbot8012
5 жыл бұрын
nice. i may get the Fanshin if i buy a Pi4. the Icetower is cool, probably the better solution for people who dont move their Pi around too much.
@ExplainingComputers
5 жыл бұрын
The Fan SHIM is excellent, very easy to fit, and very practical. The ICE Tower is just cool! :)
@horseradishpower9947
5 жыл бұрын
I have a fan shim, and it does work very nicely indeed. Snug fit, and quiet as well. Chris' performance test fits my experience of it as well.
@horseradishpower9947
5 жыл бұрын
@Space Monkey Based on what assessment? What is so wrong with a Raspberry Pi?
@pooounderscoreman
5 жыл бұрын
@Space Monkey in other words, only buy a Pi if you can affort a 10 dollar active cooling setup.
@pooounderscoreman
5 жыл бұрын
In my opinion, there's benefits to the Noctua and Fan Shim setup: controller cooling including Ethernet and USB.
@j-man6001
5 жыл бұрын
well when it gets hot enough to actually bake a pie, time for cooler haha
@cdoublejj
5 жыл бұрын
the heat pipe cooler IS a high end PC cooler, look up "heatpipe northbridge cooler" a tad bigger but, that's what they used to be used for.
@bknesheim
4 жыл бұрын
Based on the results in this video I tested skipping the heat-sink and just use a small fan. The fan is 40 mm, 12 volt , but i run it at 8 volt. It silent at half a meters distance and uses less than 0.5 watt. It resulted in a drop of 25 degree from 56 to 31 when idle and even more under normal load . with no heat-sink the height of the fan is level with the USB/Ethernet ports
@chandekam1826
5 жыл бұрын
When you're testing with the 52Pi ICE Tower Cooler in the passive mode, could you please post the results where you have oriented the RPi4 to make the fins of the Tower Cooler vertical rather than horizontal? If you don't have a fan running, convective air flow will play a big role in how effectively it will cool the RPi4. And convective air flow works best when the fins are vertical.
@JMRSplatt
5 жыл бұрын
Awesome video! Your excitement is pleasant to watch. :)
@johnhazel9986
4 жыл бұрын
There's some unexploited potential in the Pimoroni. detaching the fan from the shim and tilting it at a 45 degree angle should give double or more airflow across the SOC. Also it still seems an intresting experiment to color the SOC with a black sharpie to incease it's emmisivity. (same reason SR-71 Blackbird is black)
@ikhtiaramin2578
5 жыл бұрын
That Ice Tower cooler is so cute!
@europeansovietunion7372
5 жыл бұрын
I remember back in the days, someone cooled a computer with non-conductive oil, but IIRC it caused problem with HDD or something, plus it was massive. I'm curious if this would be a good solution for tiny single board computers.
@99nerka
5 жыл бұрын
I was hoping you would show result with thermal pad.
@PeteVanDemark
5 жыл бұрын
I really like the 52 Pi Ice Tower. I plan to try one with a Peltier module for another project as well. 52 Pi even have them for sale with free shipping on eBay!
@PeteVanDemark
5 жыл бұрын
As I said, completely different project. Thanks.
@tubegor
5 жыл бұрын
As always very interesting video. I congratulate for 500,000 subscribers.
@ExplainingComputers
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks. :)
@NexXxus86
5 жыл бұрын
yea that tower is probably helpful if you overclock to 2ghz and stress your pi 24/7.
@vonEitzen
5 жыл бұрын
Check out the new Pi 4 case from Flirc. It's lovely and works very well for cooling, too.
@ExplainingComputers
5 жыл бұрын
It will form part of my final Pi 4 video on passive cooling solutions! :)
@IncertusetNescio
5 жыл бұрын
@@ExplainingComputers I find that while it works, it ends up too toasty to hold under load. Interested to see your tests and results on it.
@DCFusor
5 жыл бұрын
As it happens, I just got one of those and ran the same test on it. Starting from 35 C seconds after booting, it hit 61 C at the end of the test, and idles around 55 C long term. The case has quite a lot of thermal mass, so temperatures move slowly. It takes a long time to fully heat up, and a very long time to cool back down. It's hot to the touch at the end of the test...Allowing it to hit its 56 C idle first, it heats to 71 C in this same test. Testing another pi4 in the Canakit case, modified to mount a Noctua fan on top, and using their "joke" heatsinks, I got a little bit better results than Chris; I think the airflow in my version is a bit better in terms of the path it takes - but it looks horrible by comparison. For that one, I got 51 C top temperature, it idles in the low 40s. I think my room might have been around 1-2 C cooler than his (It does depend where in the room you measure, around here). The fan is clearly the winner in all tests, his and mine. It's so good I'm thinking about trying to run it down in speed, or make it switched, like the pimoroni fan. I got the "thicker" Noctua (same as shown here) - there's now a thinner version on Amazon, which is probably less air and more noise. Be careful in ordering.
@bradquinn4161
5 жыл бұрын
@@ExplainingComputers I have a Pi 4 flirc case. My pie idles higher than most (started at 60C after a month it has dropped to 50C(ish)). Under load the case is quite warm (so there is good cpu to case contact). Since the bottom seals the case, I was wondering about using some 10mm(ish) standoffs between the bottom of the board and the base cover to allow some airflow into the case. The standoffs would need to be long enough to clear the SD card slot. I have no local source for 2.5mm stuff and shipping is about 10X the cost of the standoffs. Any chance you could give it a try? Thanks
@ExplainingComputers
5 жыл бұрын
@@bradquinn4161 I will certainly be testing the Flirc case in a video here soon. :)
@Richardj410
5 жыл бұрын
That was amazing. Thought that the large heat sink was a hoot. Thanks for the video.
@paladingeorge6098
3 жыл бұрын
So when I first saw the Ice Tower cooler my first thought is that it would have been a more aesthetic piece than anything. However, as it turns out you can in fact miniaturize a tower cooler and expect great results!
@pulesjet
5 жыл бұрын
Now add a Peltier to the Ice Cooler. LOL
@ozzymandius666
5 жыл бұрын
That really is an excellent idea, but it would need its own power supply. Get the Pi running below room temperature!
@johnm2012
5 жыл бұрын
What would that achieve though? Any of these cooling solutions is sufficient to stop the processor from throttling so what is to be gained by more exotic solutions?
@pulesjet
5 жыл бұрын
@@johnm2012 Probably nothing. Just fun screwing around. Go Cryogenic. Overclock the chit out of the thing.
@@ozzymandius666 On air cooling alone the silicon is well away from the danger zone. Cooling it further wouldn't improve longevity by any measurable amount. Even running it without any active cooling at all is safe, but it throttles.
@CaveyMoth
4 жыл бұрын
The FAN SHIM has an RGB LED. Does that turn your Raspberry Pi 4 into a gaming machine?
@qallincha
4 жыл бұрын
Does Retropie count ?
@KalahiMd
5 жыл бұрын
Can't wait for the passive cooling solutions on the Rpi4. Bought myself a very neat FLIRC case for my Rpi3B a while back, never overheats, no noise, looks slick, very cool, indeed.
@wammo12345
5 жыл бұрын
Fan-tastic video Chris! I have this vision of a near silent Pi 4 attached to the back of a monitor, wireless mouse and keyboard, running as a desktop. I'm thinking the board could go inside a short vertical section of aluminium pipe with big slow fans ant the ends, bottom fan pulling air in and top fan pushing air out...
@ExplainingComputers
5 жыл бұрын
Pi in a wind tunnel. Nice idea!
@mattparker9726
5 жыл бұрын
yay! but i'm confused... Why no water cooling?? no nitrogen?? But don't you know we want a 5ghz pi?? XD
@TechTroppy
5 жыл бұрын
Next video liquid cooled raspberry pi 4
@Okurka.
5 жыл бұрын
Cryo cooled.
@WilliamBurlingame
5 жыл бұрын
I have two RPi 4s. I have One RPi 4 in a case with a fan/heat sinks (iUniker) and the other in a flirc case. The unit in the case with a fan idles at 36°C and the unit in the flirc case idles at 45°C. When I ran the stress test on each, the unit in the case with the fan maxed out at 51°C and the unit in the flirc case maxed out at 61°C. The iUniker case with the fan was $8.99 on Amazon Prime and the flirc case was $14.95, but with shipping it was $22.80.
@wrxs1781
5 жыл бұрын
The ice tower cooling was truly impressive, and I would suppose manufactured in China,because of the price point. Again well done Christopher.
@sjc1836
5 жыл бұрын
Why is it that mobile phone processors, which are much more powerful don't require this level of cooling?
@milankostic5401
5 жыл бұрын
Phones likely throttles more and do bigLITTLE tricks, plus some advanced scenarioed power managment avoidances usually to prolong battery life etc.. That managment could go as far as that even user hands act as cooler too 😂 RPi 4 as aimed also for Desktop does not calculate as all 4 cores are BIG and that cries for a fan to not throttle in intensive scenarios such a stress benchmarks. Plus some people like to OC it too, so 😂
@user-aw3dh6jxc3
5 жыл бұрын
If you use fan, your phone will remain caseless. So you can't really hold it. If you use heatsink, the case will be too hot for you to hold it. So best way is just to throttle it.
@kennethflorek8532
5 жыл бұрын
If you confine the processor to do what a phone normally does (as Milan Kostić says), the rp4 will probably run cool. The benchmark just flogs the processor as hard as it can go.
@weerobot
5 жыл бұрын
I Cool a Raspberry pie with ice cream...lol
@ExplainingComputers
5 жыл бұрын
:)
@sannidhyabalkote9536
5 жыл бұрын
I did with raspberry flavour, i did 10 degrees lower from the vanilla one
@MB-THX1138
5 жыл бұрын
A vanilla build. Boom boom
@sannidhyabalkote9536
5 жыл бұрын
@@MB-THX1138 ohhhh
@perrymcclusky4695
5 жыл бұрын
...and who needs a case when you have a plate.
@andamodeming274
4 жыл бұрын
I replaced the fan with a Noctua NF-A4x10 5V fan. I bought the vertical model (Ice Tower) then returned it for the horizontal (Low profile). The vertical uses screws for the fan mount and the horizontal uses a fan clip which I find poorly designed and it doesn't work well with the Noctua fan. Both of mine were the GeeekPI models.
@Simcore999
5 жыл бұрын
Looking forward to the passive cooling
@calmac3723
5 жыл бұрын
When you have a small factor pc and the only way to effectively cool it makes it 4 times as big 🤔😂
@mohamadyusoff9091
5 жыл бұрын
an NUC has way higher performance and smaller package
@Celcius1
5 жыл бұрын
Could you try installing Windows 10 on a RPi4
@ExplainingComputers
5 жыл бұрын
I understand it can be done! I have several Pi 4 videos planned.
@Celcius1
5 жыл бұрын
Ok cool, been researching to do this with my Pi 4
@ExplainingComputers
5 жыл бұрын
The extra power offers a lot of possibilities!
@arthurdent8091
5 жыл бұрын
Hi Chris. I liked the no-punches-pulled approach you take with your reviews. The only thing that comes to my mind is what happens ( God forbid ) when the fan craps out and you ( or someone ) are so wrapped up in their work that you don't notice. I think that there should be some sort of audible alarm just in case, maybe I'm paranoid but in matters like this, I like to wear suspenders and a belt. Great review. Cheers.
@hotroof
5 жыл бұрын
Well, you did it again! I'm off to order more Pi peripherals! Awesome content, as always.
@DamianAI9
5 жыл бұрын
Yes back again with my favorite Nerd with an IQ of 160
@samuelschwager
5 жыл бұрын
I think the 52Pi cooler completely negates the advantage of the Pi's small form factor, but I like the Noctua and Pimoroni solution :)
@GVSolo
5 жыл бұрын
That ICE Tower Cooler is really impressive. I'm glad to see that you finally get it and test it Mr B.
@MikeHammer1
2 жыл бұрын
Currently using the Ice Tower on a Pi 3B for the Astroberry application. I had to modify the Ice Tower (I did not like the idea of using 3 layers of the heat transfer film) to fit the 3B by taking a copper penny and sanding it smooth on both sides to place between the CPU and heat sink with some thermal compound. Also slightly bent the mounting leg to increase the downforce on the CPU. I mounted the assembly in a 3D printed case found on Thingiverse that I modified to increase the thickness of the case sides. At idle it is steady at 27°C in a room at 20°C. Never goes over 52°C when running intensive applications (such as are possible with a Pi 3B). Very please with the Ice Tower overall. The fan illumination changes color over time BTW, the Ice Tower, which I purchased from Amazon, came with a second, black, fan which I used with a duct included with the Thingiverse case as an additional cooler. The whole assembly is very quiet.
@michelleasjes7805
5 жыл бұрын
woh. Again an amazing video. looking forward to the test with passive cooling. Maybee overclocking in it? Ordered the Flirq, still shipping. Have my Pi 4 4Gb run stable on 1600MHz with simple fan 50°C. Waiting for the Flirq to arrive to overclock more. Keep up and congratulations with the 500K .
@NewAgeDIY
5 жыл бұрын
I can understand why some people are attached to the very large blue LED backlit Ice cooler. It some ways it’s like putting on fancy rims on your car. That said this cooler is just too big for the form factor of the Pi 4. There are many different ways to keep the temperatures down and the best way (my opinion) is the metal heat sink cases that are on the market. They look great and keep the Pi running cool. As always Chris thanks for this weekend instalment of “ keeping your Pi cool” 😎
@danaross
5 жыл бұрын
Wonderful testing. Thank you. I'm hoping that you will unscrew the fan and shrouds on the ICE Tower and try it that way for a passive test.
@lubricatedgoat
5 жыл бұрын
Be nice if there was a heat-pipe cooler that blew air down on the board. That would give it a lower profile, cool ancillary chips, and allow much better convective cooling when no fan was in place (due to fin orientation that encourages hot air to rise through the stack passively).
@paulperkins1615
4 жыл бұрын
What I want is a case and cooling combo that is reasonably protective, is very unlikely to thermally throttle, does not interfere with radio (WiFi or Bluetooth), is silent or at least almost silent, doesn't block ports, and is not overly large or expensive. Probably a plastic case with a small fan (and maybe small heat sinks, but the Pi 4 seems to be it's own heat sink really), or possibly a case-is-the-heatsink solution if it doesn't screw up radio range too much. I have no interest in attaching a thousand pounds of refrigeration and trying to overclock to a billion giga-hertz.
@HuntersMoon78
5 жыл бұрын
The Ice Tower cooler look awesome
@The.Doctor.Venkman
5 жыл бұрын
Excellent product. Thanks for a thorough review, Chris!
@cgraham6
5 жыл бұрын
Way to go 52Pi! Finally, a well-engineered, truly effective cooling solution for the Pi 3/4. I'll definitely be purchasing one.
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