So I’ve got an 8GB Pi 5 with the offical Active Cooler and then the Pineberry NVME HAT on top in the Pi52 tall alumnium cooling case and thermals are not great. Looking for guidance and/or recommendations.

I already have the active cooler so I’m all out of fan headers, and I have 3 hard drives plugged in so I’m not sure about powering a whole USB fan.

I saw that Noctua finally came out with their desk fan and thought that may be a perfect solution. I was thinking of just slapping it under the Pi, but I was wondering if this would even make a difference.

Also wondering what the best configuration would be between push/pull & bottom/top or if anybody has better ideas, I’m all ears. Thank y’all!

  • DARbarian@kbin.runOP
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    5 months ago

    Fair enough. I was really trying to avoid obsolescing another case though 😭 What about putting the fan on top in either push or pull? Think it’d be worth getting cool air in there despite the HAT?