Related Blog post - Heating and cooling Raspberry Pi 5 - https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/heatin ... erry-pi-5/Hi there,
I just received my Raspberry Pi 5 with red cases and power supplies. The red case has a fan in... so is there any reason to buy and use the active cooler fan instead? I am going to be using these with middle school students, two period per day.
Thoughts?
Thank you very much.
If you need the devices to be encased perhaps the case with fan is the better option?
Are your students going to be getting to a point where they put the machines under a compute load such that cooling is really needed?
Conclusion from that article -
The standard case - mine is black, not red and white - simply works, no fuss.When deciding on a cooling solution you should consider what sort of use you’re going to put your Raspberry Pi 5 to, and make a decision on cooling based on that, rather than just arbitrarily adding cooling. Because for a lot of day-to-day use cases, it’s not going to be needed.
Cooling of any type isn’t mandatory, no harm will come to your Raspberry Pi if it’s left uncooled — and even while throttling under heavy load, a Raspberry Pi 5 is still faster than an unthrottled Raspberry Pi 4.
Statistics: Posted by B.Goode — Thu Feb 08, 2024 6:53 pm