Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ Aluminum Case Metal Shell Black Enclosure Compatible with Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (Without Fan)

Great heatsink for a raspberry pi 3b. As other reviews have stated, the thermal pads are too thin for good contact, however if you source some of your own, it's a great case. It's pretty overkill even if you're overclocking the pi and running it full tilt 24/7. lots of material to heat-soak.

I had a pi 3 b running a project and it would hang around 70c. Put this on and it dropped to 58-59c. When I installed the fans the temperature increased to 61-62c. They are ineffective at cooling, its better to install just without the fans.

This is a nice, solid little case for the Pi. I was running an ADSB feeder station with an SDR dongle and a GPS/RTC hat, but I just had the Pi board in the guts of an old plastic case I had from a long time ago. I had one of the small, cheap heat sinks normally sold with these cheap cases attached to the CPU, but nothing else at all in the way of cooling. As you can see from my photo, which shows the CPU temperature over the last 30 days, my temps had ranged from about 43-57 C, with 50 being about average. Now, to the right of the last blank/white/offline period in the graph, you can see where I've put this board into this case. Now, my temps have not gone past about 40 since.It was a little confusing when first opening the package, because all of the thermal pads were just stuck together in a big clump. If you didn't know about the height difference between the CPU in the B and the B+ models, you might end up sticking the wrong one on there and having cooling problems, or alternatively, trouble getting the top piece to fit properly. There was basically no documentation to explain which thermal pad needed to go where, though it was relatively easy enough to figure out, again if you already knew about the CPU height differences. Other than that, assembly was a breeze, only 4 little screws and the needed tool, allen wrench, is included.The reason I bought this case specifically was to get better access to attach my GPS hat to the GPIO pins. I use the Uputronics Raspberry Pi GPS/RTC Expansion Board available from airspy dot us. Previously, I attached it to my Pi using a GPIO extender ribbon coupled with some adapters. It was clunky at best. With this case, I only needed 1 adapter out of the set available on Amazon ASIN B0827THC7R, and now my GPS hat sits very comfortably right on top of this case, with a bit of room to spare. I had tested one other case and was unable to get any adapters in to use the GPIO pins, despite them advertising GPIO access.So, this case seems like a win all around. Recommended!

Be Careful to use proper thickness heat pads. The product is made for multiple 'versions' of Raspberry B and the mfr provides multiple heat pads. For Model 3 B (not plus) the heat sink protrusion for the processor chip will NOT touch (NOT CONDUCT HEAT) if you use only the thick or the skinny pads alone. For my 3B it took BOTH the large square thick and thin together to make contact. Just make sure you peel the protective cover from thermal pads.For my 3B, he other two pads : The thin tiny square goes on other chip on top side with the processor. Stick on chip to make sure it matches to as much of the rectangular heat sink protrusion. The other thermal pad - a square (thicker) goes on back chip and does reach from heat sink protrusion to chip.UPDATE : I purchased another for my 3B+. I used both thin for 'top side' chips including metal processor. And the thick larger square for the chip on backside. ALL produce good contact.Still not fully 'happy' with the doubled up thermal pads on model 3 processor, but seems to disburse heat, and the 3B does not run that hot. As well the first set of heatsink pads seemed 'crumbly', the second were nice and active.Upped my rating from 4 to 4.5 (so yeah fell in the 5 star bucket).

I have a Raspberry Pi 3 b, non plus. Others might have had issues with other models but with the 3 b it fits perfectly. This thing is pretty incredible. It's solid aluminum and acts like a big heat sink. It fit perfectly and in my opinion it fits so perfectly well that I'd think it was an OEM Raspberry Pi product.What I like about it is that it covers all the bare circuit board areas so you don't need to worry as much about handling it. Also it adds a little heft/weight to the raspberry pi but not in a bad way, it doesn't get jostled around as much and it feels more like a substantial product in your hand. I had an earlier Raspberry Pi and I got a plastic enclosure from another company for it and I didn't really love it, it served its purpose of keeping it enclosed though. But this product serves the same purpose and makes up for all the things I wasn't thrilled about with that other product.The Pins however are left uncovered but that isn't an issue at all for me.I'm not overclocking so I can't make any claims at how good it is keeping it cool. But I'm sure the huge heat sink and surface area would help out a whole bunch for something like that. I think they sell a version with a fan if that's your thing.

When assembling the kit I noticed that the case, which has large molded/cast protrusions. meant to make contact with the CPU and USB chips, does not, in fact do that. Even with the conductive pads. Maybe I installed it wrong but would seem very difficult to do that. It really defeats the whole point of passively (assisted by fans) cooled case.

When streaming videos on my pi 3, It would get very close to over heating. Mostly when im netflixing . The Temp icon would appear on the top right of my screen. At first i put two small alloy heat sinks on. They helped alittle.But still got the temp icon after awhile. Now with this Unistorm Aluminum duel Heat sink with fans i havent had any issues with the temp spiking. It runs very quite. The top and bottom heat sinks encompass the entire board. They call it a case. Its not. But once its screwed together it acts similar to a case. It takes a few minutes to assemble. If you have basic mechanical skills this shouldn't be an issue for you. The only thing i had to google was what pins to put the connection on. It was easy to find that info using google images. I recommend this product highly if your pi runs hot. And on top of all that it just looks Cool.

J'ai acheté le modèle sans ventilateur, celui pour lequel les photos montrent un radiateur très épais sur toute la longueur. Et bien en fait on ne reçoit pas ça du tout, mais simplement le modèle avec les trous pour les ventilateurs, mais SANS les ventilateurs ! Cela fait donc une surface de refroidissement nettement moins développée, sans compter l'aspect pas joli du tout de l'ensemble (une grosse découpe du radiateur supérieur, ainsi que des trous à travers pour le passage des vis du ventilateur (inexistant).Bref, c'est une escroquerie !De plus je ne comprend pas les gens qui parlent d'une remarquable efficacité, ou alors nous n'avons pas reçu le même modèle : sur le mien, impossible de faire toucher le déport métallique sur le processeur principal de mon R.PI 3B ! Même si j'utilise deux petits pads thermiques l'un sur l'autre, il manque encore un gros millimètre ou deux. Pourtant le déport pour le processeur secondaire (près des ports USB) est bien coupé lui, sa hauteur permet de toucher le processeur.Edition de mon commentaire : le vendeur m'ayant recontacté, il s'avère que j'ai eu un double problème lors de la livraison : pas le bon jeu de tampons thermiques et pas le bon modèle de radiateur supérieur. Tout est maintenant corrigé et fonctionne parfaitement.Vendeur très efficace et sympathique, merci à lui.

J'ai acheté ce boîtier pour refroidir ma raspberry pi 3. Elle est overclocker à 1,45 Ghz cpu, 500 Mhz ram et la sd tourne à 100 Mhz. J'ai remplacé la pâte thermique fournie avec le kit par de la ARCTIC MX-4. Quand je la fait tourner à pleine capacité elle monte à 49.9 C° est ce stabilise à cette température.

Je recommande vivement ce produitTrès silencieux surtout en 3,3v