Is it worth water cooling a Raspberry Pi 5? #RaspberryPi5 @Raspberry_Pi @seeedstudio
Michael Klements at The DIY Life takes a look at a new Seeed Studio water-cooling kit that has been designed for a Raspberry Pi 5. The custom water block and its performance are tested against a DIY solution built for a Pi 4 a few years ago as well as the official Raspberry Pi heatsink/fan cooler.
The water cooling kit that we’re going to be using has just been launched, it is available from Seeed Studio’s web store and currently costs $120.
It includes a fan and water pump assembly, a cooling block, a 12V power adaptor, the installation hardware like some thermal pads and screws as well as some flexible tubing to run to the water block.
The water block is a custom design for the Pi 5 and the kit comes with a black aluminium heatsink for the bottom of the Pi as well.
Both the water cooling kit and the DIY solution worked significantly better than the active cooler on an overclocked Pi. That’s not to say that the active cooler isn’t a good option, it is actually quite capable of cooling an overclocked Pi at full load as well.
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