GeeekPi ICE Tower Cooler for Raspberry Pi, RGB Cooling Fan with Aluminum Heatsink for Pi 4 Model B & 3B+/3 Model B (Black)

Previously was using the Vilros passive cooling case with a Sandisk Extreme 32gb card, stock CPU settings. Liked the case as it came in contact with the CPU, ram, ethernet and usb controllers. Looks good too.For my use, got so hot the pi kept slowing down and becoming unresponsive. Too bad.Added this cooler, same conditions but added my own heatsinks to the other chips as this cooler only contacts the CPU.Rock solid at 1.5ghz. Not a single issue. Never overclocked a pi before so gave it a try.Ramped up to 2ghz. Temp never got over 40°C!Run this command via command line to monitor temperature:watch -n 1 vcgencmd measure_tempEven when stressed with near 100% CPU load at a full 2ghz, never skipped for 12 hours and only touched 44°C for a short time. Was performing large file transfers (large and small files, 5 bay raid usb 3.0, four simultaneous transfers and random speedtests via chromium) to test.System is running full Raspbian and OMV (wired ethernet, 5-bay usb 3.0 enclosure). Very usable as a workstation (and background server) for light office use, not video editing or heavy tasks. That is what a PC is for.Fan is a quiet hum and barely noticed it running. Nice touch on the color changing LEDs.Would highly recommend the cooler and would like to know if anyone has tried Retropi while overclocked? Would be interesting.

It was able to lower temps on a rpi4b from 83c during a stress test to 37c.You will need longer screws if you want to install a Noctua fan.The original shipment arrived with some damage to the fins but the seller offered a full refund.

Moved from official Pi3+ case. Dropped average temperature by 10 degrees F.And SUPER quiet.

Nice cooler, easy to install, well though out design.No problems with the finish, or the mounting. Looks awesome.Left off one star just because the airflow is super weak. Could have done a bit better with the airflow.I'm thinking the RGB fan was more for looks, sacrificing static pressure for pushing air through the heatsink

Used some thermal paste to attach it, definitely works better than a passive heat sync, looks way cooler, and fits nicely in my case (with just enough room for my SSD to squeeze on top)

I have a Noctua NH-D15S chromax.black in my desktop, so I bought this just because it looks cool and thought it would be a fun compliment. I was halfway thinking this was just a gimmick and wouldn't actually have a real benefit.I installed this on a new Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB. To take the install over the top, I sanded off most of the paint on the base with 400 grit sandpaper and then polished it with 1500 grit to get a nice smooth surface for mating to the CPU. Rather than using the supplied thermal adhesive I used some NT-H1 thermal compound that I had laying around. Attempting to follow the pictures in the installation guide I assembled the mounts backwards the first time, but it was easy to correct.Following the install I thought it would be a good idea to run some thermal stress tests. The case that I ordered is still in transit so for now it is sitting on my desk in open air, ambient temperature is ~24C. I used Stressberry to run 3 tests, Fan Unplugged, Fan connected to 3.3V, Fan connected to 5V. Because I was so excited to install the heatsink I didn't run any stress tests without it installed.Fan unplugged: Idle 33C, Stress 44C3.3V Fan: Idle 30C, Stress 39C5V Fan: Idle 29C, Stress 36CAt these temperatures there was obviously no throttling. These were short 15 minute tests so I may not have reached stability. Once I get the Pi installed in the case I'll run longer tests to determine how I want to run it long term. I bought a Noctura 40mm fan that I'll be testing as well, just to increase the cool factor a little bit more.If you want your Pi to run cool or just look cool this is the cooler to get. Is it overkill? Yes. Am I happy with my purchase? Yes.

Decided to act a lot younger than I am and buy a couple of these power coolers with RGB lighting effects for my Pi 4s. My initial inspection when they arrived left me a little concerned that the base that would face the processor didn’t look all that flat and wouldn’t make good contact. After some fiddling to get the lower supports turned to give access to either the camera slot or the GPIO. Either I’m dumber than I thought or you have to choose which you want to be ale to use after the tower is installed. Anyway, I choose camera for one and GPIO for the other and after putting only a single thermal pad (comes with three pads) and tightening all the four nuts was pleased to see that the base seemed to make good contact.I run distributed processing software (think seti at home) on all my computers and the RPI4s seemed to be running pretty hot. I didn’t take the time to do a bunch of before and after temperature measurements but ICE towers did seem to cool things down maybe 10 °F or so. The fan runs quiet and I found I enjoyed the slowly changing RGB illumination.

This lowered the SoC temps by 15-20c at 100% load. Didn't help that much at idle, but my Pi is never idle. It works and looks good. Would buy again.