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Pros & Cons
Pros
The setup is great, everything works fantastic. The pi no longer complains. Oc'd or not, they help a lot.
The thermal tape is sometimes a bit off but easily rectified. It helps to remove the adhesive they put on there.
An attractive and practical addition to the raspberry pi. It fits almost perfectly on all components, except it is too big for what appears to be a pwm.
Cons
Double-sided tape to fasten them to the chips appears to create greater resistance to heat transfer than just leaving the chip bare. These aren't usually necessary for the rpi, even if overclocked to a reasonable degree, and even if additional cooling... Read More
Highlights
Quality
The rpi processor runs much cooler with the heatsink.
Fits the raspberry just fine, and helps a lot with the chip tempeture.
Shame on the raspberrypi designers for not including heatsinks for their product.
I added these because i wanted to enclose my pi and thought that it would help with the reduced air flow.
Price
00 which seemed like a great price.
Competitiveness
I keep my pi running at the highest overclock setting and i haven't had an issue yet.
I recently purchased a 2nd rpi, so this is my 2nd set of heatsinks.
After a while, the pi started acting squirrely while running raspbian.
The larger of these heat sinks is roughly 1cm square, and the smaller two are about a half cm square.
Overview
- How are reviewers describing this item?
thermal, great, easy, good and small. - Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 9.
- Previous analysis of this listing was an D grade.
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- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 46.9% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 138 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 10 2022.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I took the backing off and used atctic alumina epoxy
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It is only double sided tape that holds them on
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
After a while the pi started acting squirrely while running raspbian
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The pi would still get a little squirrely at times but it took longer after installing the heat sinks
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It fits almost perfectly on all components except it is too big for what appears to be a pwm
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If you can peel and stick youve mastered the installation process
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Ran pi under moderate load for 28hrs straight these little heat sinks work just exactly as stated never got hot
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
My pi is inside a plastic box designed for it and these have no problem sitting inside the reduced space not touching anything but the chips they are supposed to be attached to
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