Ultimate Dual Fan for Pi3

Ecks

Just curious if anyone has seen this before alt text
cause i seen one guy on YouTube use it so far and he claims that it lowers the temp on the Pi by 10°C to 16°C also the price for it is not bad which is roughly 10$ Canadian which is nice and thinking of getting it because i am thinking this might be better than the whole heat sinks and single fan and i miss using my older case as well that doesn't have a fan thing on it.

DD-Indeed

I saw this as well, but it uses very thick double sided tape, so I highly doubt, that it will transfer the heat that well. And also, I dunno, that how this copes with those certain components, that are higher than the CPU and GPU lids. But so far, this thing seems to be the best possible cooling solution, that is also affordable. Maybe we should just order them and give it a go. One trick I had in my mind was to buy couple small square copper plates, that would be positioned between these and the processor headers, to lift the cooler higher than those certain components and use thermal glue to hold all together.

caver01

@dd-indeed said in Ultimate Dual Fan for Pi3:

One trick I had in my mind was to buy couple small square copper plates, that would be positioned between these and the processor headers, to lift the cooler higher than those certain components and use thermal glue to hold all together.

That sounds like a much better way to use these. Actually, any heat sink properly attached ought to work much better than double sided tape. Even with just a little airflow, you can relieve a sink of that heat. One fan should be capable of that.

Ecks

@caver01 I know that one fan would be more than enough but this company i think wanted to do it this way just for certain cases that doesn't have the ability to stick on a fan like the NES/SNES cases they have out there.

DD-Indeed

Found this fresh video from Youtube, looks really promising:

I'm ready to order those, but I try to find them from a sort of place where I could get those copper plates to lift it up a bit and to have better thermal transfer to the cooler.

Update: Got them all, the fan kit and the copper plates, from Volumerate.

Rion

DD-Indeed

@rion

Good for people who have space to have that. Other than that, you can get it done more easily.

A Former User

Just ordered one of those dual fans. Ship date is about a month away though. :/

Ecks

@rion That kind of cooling is cool but would cost you a lot more just for making that because what i was showing costs around 10$ Canadian and buying the copper plate with the heatsink that size and also buying the materials for that case for everything to fit because without it everything would just fall out of place would cost you about double.

DD-Indeed

Dual fan is now on its way, I'll post some info and pictures to this topic as well, once I start to build them in. I need to order that thermal glue too, but that's something I'll do locally to get good quality stuff. I propably need to cut one of the copper plates into smaller piece to fit into the GPU chip.

But about testing, I know that there is those stress testes that can be done internally, but can I monitor the temp at the same time ?

FatWhiteLump

@dd-indeed ExplainingComputers has a good video on testing temperature with Rapsbian.

DD-Indeed

@fatwhitelump

But that requires a boot to OS, right ? So basically, I could use another SD card with OS installed to do those tests and once I've done them, I can put the RetroPie SD back and it's ready to go. But, are those overclock configs saved only on the SD ? Meaning that I would need to use same setup for the benchmark as well.

Ecks

@dd-indeed You can use putty on your PC to connect onto your Pi which will give the same terminal for you to put in your commands which you can play a game on your Pi at the same time the most powerful kind and see the temps on your PC which is what i usually end up using when i am testing out newer things like when i installed my single little fan with the 2 heat sinks,

DD-Indeed

@ecks

Allright, that sounds reasonable. I have the machine now next to my PC anyway in a test bench. Gonna get back to this whet I get the kit I ordered.

A Former User

Got this in the mail a couple days ago. It’s cooled my Pi 3 considerably. Cut temps by 10-15 degrees celcius, depending on what I’m doing. Quite happy with it.

PetroRie

I would recommend it only if you're going to overclock your Pi, else it's not really needed.

A Former User

It has other purposes than overclocking.

If you have a case that runs hot, this will help. This is exactly why I got it and it’s been great. Can finally keep the lid of my case on.

caver01

@livefastcyyoung Yes, not to mention the fact that if you are running emulators, or ROMs that push the limits of the Pi3, I noticed an immediate difference in just adding a heat sink. Any cooling, whether active or passive will be of benefit if attached correctly.

DD-Indeed

I should get mine finally next week, I decided to go with regular thermal paste instead of that thermal glue. I've been thinkin about, that I could just use hot glue gun to lightly glue the kit down from the sides. It would stay still, but would be also easy and safe to remove later. I'll post pictures of how I went with it later on.

PetroRie

@caver01 said in Ultimate Dual Fan for Pi3:

@livefastcyyoung Yes, not to mention the fact that if you are running emulators, or ROMs that push the limits of the Pi3, I noticed an immediate difference in just adding a heat sink. Any cooling, whether active or passive will be of benefit if attached correctly.

I had only once heating problems and that was during a hot summer day, I;ve took the top cover off. The thing I don't like is that these heatsinks are way too small because of the cases. You can use a 40mm 40mm heatsink with a fan but you have to "mutilate" your top cover.