Raspberry Pi 5. Ice tower cooler and case from 52Pi

Is it possible to use thermal paste over the raspberry pi processor?

Do you think the PiNEBerry Pi nVME top hat will fit into the enclosed case?

Would it be possible to invert the fan so that it blew air out? That plus the heatsinks I wonder if it would be similar in performance to the active cooler.

Also is having the active cooler in an option ?

All my 4's have the ICE tower and I was hoping to see this on the 5 too.
These are by far the best to keep my Pi4 cool and hopefully my Pi5 too.
I was hoping to see that we can change the temperature/fan speed profile using some Raspi-config setting. I think that with both the official case and the official active cooler the CPU temperature gets too hot before the fan ramps up

It realy is silly to not use the heat sinks or the official active cooler in that case expecaly on a PI 5. There is a marked improvement with either solution. Slow twisting slightly side to side of the heat sinks during removal will almost always make them easily release. DO NOT pry them up from one edge as the adhesive is strongest against that approach, just wiggle them as you pull them up vertically.

I hope someone makes a chunky passive cooler like I have for one of my pi 4's that touches all the chips that can use cooling. It was cheap, heavy, completely quiet and nice and simple. Every case I looked at is either not touching all chips, just doesn't have enough metal to pull the heat away or has a fan.

Seems like I will need to solder my own wires to use a noctua fan with it, the pi 5's fan pinout definitely doesnt line up with noctua fan's PWM.

YOU GET TO HAVE THREE NOW??! I'm still waiting to get ONE. 🙄

Thank you for these tests. This is useful.

I ordered a PI5 literally the minute they where announced and went up for sale.
Still waiting on mine

I got one for the Pi4B which I haven’t had the time to test yet. For the coming months I’ll probably be content with the official options from Raspberry Pi.

must be nice to get free stuff all the time.

Was that fan pulling out?

how does ICE Tower Cooler for Raspberry Pi 5 compare with the official cooler temperature wise ? The official one have pads for all chips and it cools them all.

Why use thermal pads with the ice-cooler, and not some paste, like arctic mx-4?
Results should be even better, because paste makes a much thinner film, and has higher thermal conductivity.

With the Pi 5 coming with an official heatsink and fan, a comparison with any third party 'solutions' in order to ascertain whether any of them actually have any real value shoild ideally be the norm. It was disappointing to hear that he supplier asked for a delay in the review because they were out of stock because it can easily give a reasonable impression that what we are seeing is not a review but an advert, potentially calling into question the impartiality of the review.

I like pi. In all flavours.

I would have no problem putting those copper heat sinks on the silicone elements but isn't there an issue with galvanic corrosion when you put a copper heat sink on a chip with an aluminium shield?

Both my Pi 4's have low profile ice towers .. would never attempt overclocking with out one ..they keep the Pi nice and cool..

i want this wallpaper, please😁

Given the results I doubt this fan ever makes a difference compared to the official active cooler which also seems to cool down vram or something as well.

I'm looking forward to the low profile ice cooler. I did order the active cooler with my Raspberry Pi 5. So I will just use that for now. I hope everything ships out soon.

love love love my ice tower cooler

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I'm more interested in the metal cases that passively cool the RPi5.

water cooled Pi5!

Can you please test passive cooling on Pi5 options? i.e just a heatsink no fan

i LOVE giant stupid coolers. All my pc builds have had super overkill coolers. I'm so happy this exists. I'll certainly be purchasing one myself. Pi's are the Nintendo of computers, they're just plain fun.

just to let you know, so you can try, the RPI5 has hdmi audio problems with monitors 2560x1080 .... if you play a video with audio, it starts flashing and audio comes out crippled....

were did you get those cute little rubber feet for the screws, neat move!!! 👍👍😀

That's all well and good. But, every day I check the online stores and my local Microcenter and no Pi 5 in stock. I check a few times a day actually. If this is going to be like the Pi 4, I will be done with the Raspberry Pis. I can get a HP Mini PC From Microcenter that is much more powerful for the same price as the Pi 5.

hanbrake on a normal computer uses everything it can. Here it looked like it was using one core and a half. Did that preset use hardware acceleration? Was the encoding somehow bottlenecked by GPU or Disk? I remember on the pi4 handbrake could not be used with software hevc due to a bug and could access only one coere in software h264. No hardware acceleration was available unfortunately.

My ice tower for my Pi4 is not working since installing bookworm. May have to go back to Bullseye. But nice to see the Ice Tower for the 5 working now.

Very cool!!

And the original pi fan ?

Is there a UK link for the ICE Tower Cooler?

I understand this isn't quite necessarily the best place to ask, but I feel a good video topic to cover would be OrangePi 5 vs Raspberry Pi 5 for emulation purposes. It's difficult to keep track of which system is a better pick/buy for an emulation box, OrangePi 5 seems to be available, albeit a bit more expensive, but does have technically better hardware. Raspberry Pi 5 seems to have better support/drivers/pricing, albeit availability is much more difficult. Understandably, it's early in RPI5 development and things can improve, and so can OPI5 if driver support improves, but a current day evaluation of framerates on supported game titles would be very welcome. Thank you.

hmm.. Handbreak is a bad test, since it doesn't use all cores. Can't you use a software that uses all cores? For example compiling source with "make -j4" or other software (like my one :-) )

Will anyone actually run theirs without the overclock?

Aight now I want to try the sunwell ptm pad and the ice tower. Because I think that pad would be holding us back. But only during overclock, as ptm isn't exceptional until about 50°C when it gets to phase change.

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Awesome vid!!