GeeekPi Active Cooler for Raspberry Pi 5, Armor Lite V5 Cooler Aluminum Heatsink and Cooling Fan for Raspberry Pi 5 4GB/8GB

Fit perfectly on my Pi5. Helped lower temps even under full load. It’s also much quieter compared to the stock fan. Great deal for the price. Metal doesn’t feel cheap and the fan is balanced.

Works great. One of the plastic screws broke but the package contained doubles of the thermal pads and screws. I guess incase of user error. It is very quiet and sometimes check to see if its spinning but it alwas is and pushes quite a bit of air. Would recommend

I had passive heat sink, however they just didn't cut it for a demanding application (video + AI) I was reluctant to get a fan - because fans get noisy and it is annoying. But I got this one because the PI was getting too hot. The fan, so far, is amazingly quite and temperature is below 60C which is good. The PI5 has a special connector for the fan which this unit uses. It has pads for all the chips on the board - and it is secured by nylon screws - which ensure firm connection and will not damage the board. Doesn't block access to the camera connectors. Assembly is a bit tricky as you need to select pads by thickness and the difference between 1.5 mm and 2mm is small - but if you place them side by side you can see it - no need to use a caliper. Cons: Instead of using different thickness pads (up to 3mm) they should have machined the heat sink accordingly (some do) and use minimum thickness pads for better heat transfer.

Assembled and connected in a couple of minutes. Keeps the processor cool as expected.

Very nicely made heatsink. The method of requiring different sized thermal pads (you get a extra set! by the way:) to compensate for the various chip heights is just the way it is. IMPORTANT: Make sure that the heatsink will press against the chips properly. In my case it seems like the heatsink stand offs (posts) may be too tall. I may have to add compound to bridge any gaps. Not perfect but it is what it is). Otherwise a vendor would have to machine the heat sink with different contact heights. Making it more costly I would imagine. A nice touch would have have been to mark (print) which pads are which. You will be looking for your calipers I'm betting. If you have more than 3 or more sets to mount... well, good luck with that. Anyway, nice purchase and I appreciate that we can purchase solutions like this at some amazing prices in 2026. p.s. I'm not a professional product reviewer but I do play one on TV ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I hedge my title by saying it's "possibly better" as I don't have the factory cooler with which to compare it. This one cost more than twice as much as the factory cooler, but when you factor in shipping for the very few places that have the factory cooler (at time of purchase and as I write this), it worked out cheaper. I'm not disappointed. It cools extremely well and comes with two full sets of thermal pads that cover more chips than even some of other larger brands. The fan is surprisingly quiet, although I'm not sure if I've been able to get it to spin up all the way due to how effective the heatsink is. Most of the time when it's on at lower speeds, I can't hear it at all (and don't have it in a case yet). Word of warning if you've never worked with thermal pads before: Be very gentle with the thermal pads and use tweezers to remove the protective plastic. The pads themselves are very delicate and easy to damage. FWIW: I also bought one of Geekworm's NVME M.2 adaptors to go with this, the X1002 model.

Apparently this was a opened and returned. At least the box looked pre opened. It was supposed to come with pegs to lock it onto the Pi5, instructions and pads. I did not get them. Used my pads and thought it just stuck on like the little ones I used to use on Arduino, however, it fell off and hit the desk hard it quit working. No fan rotation anymore. Ordered a different one entirely. I hope it comes fully intact. EDIT: GeekPi refunded the cost of this after reaching out. I did leave the review as to let people know of a potential issue but5 as stated above I thyink the package was pre opened either as a returned product that did not have everything or was dammaged before packageing not a direct issue of GeekPi. I have several GeekPi items for Arduino projects and never had an issue so I think this is a fluke.

Works great on the Pi5.

A solid, thick heatsink with a Pi-controlled fan. Its very low profile allows you to put a Pi-hat and still have reasonable clearance. Good value, excellent cooling. So far it has kept the cpu from throttling down...

I'm trying hard but I can't get my Pi 5 past 66 celsius.

No es el original, faltan unas columnas y es más chiquito en altura

Bought 2 heatsink + fan combos for my raspberry pi 5, the heatsink quality and fan size + speed was much more pleasing than any others on offer.

Works great to keep my pi 5, which is in a warm electronics bay of my 3d printer, cool and running well. Very quiet, and I confirmed my pi to only run it when needed.