Re: 'The Raspberry Pi 4 Needs a Fan'
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:42:24 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
> 'So I decided to follow the lead of Redditor
> u/CarbyCarberson and put a fan in the top cover. [...] After
> installing the fan, I booted the Pi and ran "stress --cpu 4" and let
> it go for an hour. The entire time, the CPU's temperature stayed at or
> under 60C (140F), a full 20C lower than the throttling point.'
Here
<https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/all/2019/07/22/raspberry_pi_4_too_hot_to_handle/#c_3831920>
is another suggestion:
... I got a heatsink for my 4G and just sticking an 8 inch tube of
rolled card on the top of the heatsink to make a chimney knocks a
good 15[°C] off it.
This reminds me of the old “MacChimney” addon for the original fanless
Apple Macintosh machines ...
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