The faster processor, though, is a bit of an interesting case. Plus, there’s the nice mental heat spreader over top, helping cool hot spots on the chip. The board is thicker and heavier from upgraded internal power/ground planes, which helps spread heat, preventing the chip from clocking down as much as on the Pi 3. This replaced the Raspberry Pi 3, and included a number of very nice improvements - gigabit ethernet, 5GHz wireless, slightly faster RAM, a new power supply on the board, an improvement in processor clock speeds and, most excitingly, radically improved thermal behavior. On Pi Day, 2018 (March 14, or 3.14), the Raspberry Pi foundation announced the latest and greatest Raspberry Pi - the Raspberry Pi 3B+. My Raspberry Pi 3B+ can build the Linux kernel at 1.4GHz without even hitting 50C! Can yours do that? Plus, the fan is automatically controlled by some software and the GPIO pins - which, in addition to saving a (tiny) bit of power, just looks cool when the fan comes on automatically. As is often the case in my lab, what started as “messing around” turned into something far more exciting: This contraption! I have no idea what to call it, but it’s pretty cool (running)! It does a really good job with the 3B+ as well - but it didn’t keep things quite as cool as I wanted. It’s slightly more expensive than the “Moster” heatsink case I used, but it’s a good bit better at cooling a Raspberry Pi 3. What I missed, though, was an even better case on the market that does an even better job with cooling - the FLIRC case. This will help a lot with passive cooling.Earlier in 2018, I did some experiments related to the Raspberry Pi 3 thermal behavior under load, and I found a case that worked reasonably well to keep it cool. I believe it needs a second iteration with holes in the backplate - as the old Pi 3 case, but also some holes in the top of the aluminium body ( in the power area and in the memory/controllers area ) and for cover some aluminium mesh - like the one used in some radio receivers on the speakers. By removing the plastic top the temperature will fall about 2-3 degrees very fast - more useful surface and the holes who keep the cover in place now can evacuate some hot air from inside - there is no ventilation inside - the internal surface also act as a radiator heating the air inside - which is not good. The entire case act as a cooler, but due to design only the external laterals are useful. Luckily there is now a new Pi firmware who help it cooling. They even removed the backplate holes used for ventilation. They just took the old case and redesigned the holes in it so it can fit the 4. Even if they say this was thermally designed for Pi 4, it's not. With high temperature, this may happen faster.Ģ. Also all products I had with this kind of "premium" surface got it degraded in 2-3 years - it became some kind of rubber adhesive getting dirty and bad looking. Looks very good until you touch it - it absorb the grease on your fingers and it's hard to remove it. The plastic elements are covered with a soft touch surface. Well, yes, this is probably the best looking case for a Pi.ġ. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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