Armor Lite V5 Aluminium Heatsink with PWM Fan, Raspberry Pi 5 Compatible, 30mm Cooling Fan, Thermal Pads for Raspberry Pi 5 4GB/8GB

Got this after the official stock active cooler failed - that was always noisy and needed to be on alot more due to poor passive dissipation - disappointing considering its high reviews to the contrary. This one however is fantastic. The fan rarely needs to kick in due to excellent passive cooling, and when it does, it is very quiet. Extremely cheap for the performance. Installation is always fiddly with a pi, especially when it is nested between the board and the PoE & NVMe HAT. It has 6 pads to the AC's 3, more components protected It looks cool, but that doesn't really matter seeing it is hidden under the case. I was worried it wouldn't fit as it appears large in photos but it is very small and there is more than enough room.

Works great, silent, keeps the Pi 5 cool

Far superior to the OEM cooler, practically silent and rarely has to spin fast compared to my other one which was constantly tested

This cools my pi well enough.When I used it without a heatsink, my pi seems to throttle to about 10-20MB/s during file transfersBut with this it mostly stays around 60-80MB/s,The fan is fairly quiet and it also doesn't seem to move too much air so the cooling over time becomes less effective when under constant load (for me moving a large number of files). It does the job under regular use though so its not bad.

it's so quiet and well built.

Fan and heat sink very good

The fan is virtually silent & it does a decent job of cooling, but there's just insufficient metal & dissipation fins in the heatsink, so it does little passive cooling, which means the fan runs quite often.

A really silent fan/heatsink - fits well and will be buying another couple soon.

Sehr einfache Montage und super leise. 👍👍👍👍

While the heatsink is very useful the fan is very noisy for such a small size and low rpm

Ottima ventola, acquistata per raffreddare un Raspberry Pi 5 4GB adibito a NAS dentro un involucro di alluminio Anidees molto compatto. Nel mio caso, sopra alla ventola ho installato un hat PCIE con due ssd NVME che sicuramente compromette in parte l'efficacia della ventola. Nonostante ciò, rispetto ad altre ventole testate (il cooler ufficiale di Raspberry Pi e la ventola Argon THRML) questa di GeeekPi vince ampiamente in quanto è l'unica che riesce a tenere le temperature in idle sotto ai 52-55°C, con una temperatura ambiente che purtroppo d'estate è di circa 28°C (le altre ventole faticavano a tenere la temperatura della CPU sotto ai 60-62°C). Usando un involucro meno compatto e senza "soffocare" la ventola con un hat NVME immagino che riesca facilmente a tenere la CPU sotto ai 40-45°C. Rispetto alle altre ventole testate inoltre questa è quella in assoluto più silenziosa.Altra nota positiva è l'installazione tramite viti di plastica, al contrario di altre ventole che prevedono l'uso dei fastidiosissimi pin a molla che, una volta installati, possono essere rimossi solo rompendoli. Ho anche apprezzato che le viti e i pad di silicone sono il doppio di quelli necessari all'installazione, permettendo così di avere delle parti di ricambio.Le istruzioni di montaggio sono tanto semplici quanto chiare.

Fitted perfectly on my 8gb rpi5 with the bottom mounted nvme adapter

Fonctionne parfaitement.