Are you using a case or anything to restrict the air flow? Pi stuffed i a cramped space? ..? What applications?
I use a Pi 5 with passive copper heatsinks and it never hits a roadblock. The activity is mostly disk or network limited, not games or similar. I experimented with the official cooler and it never switched on for anything I did, outside of maybe the boot up sequence when the OS is testing the fan.
Even with NVMe SSD making everything fast, the CPU does not heat up enough to invoke a fan movement. Your use might be different and it depends on applications and settings. For example. I use Firefox with Noscript to stop Javascript wasting my CPU and brain cycles. If i let the average web site load all the typical Javajunk trackware, I would need more than a fan to cool the Pi 5, probably liquid nitrogen.
You can use the "official active cooler", or an equivalent, without the fan and have an external fan for those occasions when natural convection does not help. There are also quieter option like big heatsinks with Noctua fans.
I use a Pi 5 with passive copper heatsinks and it never hits a roadblock. The activity is mostly disk or network limited, not games or similar. I experimented with the official cooler and it never switched on for anything I did, outside of maybe the boot up sequence when the OS is testing the fan.
Even with NVMe SSD making everything fast, the CPU does not heat up enough to invoke a fan movement. Your use might be different and it depends on applications and settings. For example. I use Firefox with Noscript to stop Javascript wasting my CPU and brain cycles. If i let the average web site load all the typical Javajunk trackware, I would need more than a fan to cool the Pi 5, probably liquid nitrogen.
You can use the "official active cooler", or an equivalent, without the fan and have an external fan for those occasions when natural convection does not help. There are also quieter option like big heatsinks with Noctua fans.
Statistics: Posted by peterlite — Mon Jun 24, 2024 9:29 am