The MagPi - February 2020

These cases keep Raspberry Pi 4 feeling,

and looking, cool. By Gareth Halfacree

1. Raspberry
   Pi 4 Stand


2. Flirc Raspberry
   Pi 4 Case


3. Argon One for
   Raspberry Pi 4


4. Sensoreq CooliPi
   Heatsink and Case


5. Pimoroni Aluminium Heatsink
   Case for Raspberry Pi 4


6. The Pi Hut Raspberry Pi 4 Case 2.0

R

aspberry Pi 4 – like all the other

members of the ever-growing

Raspberry Pi family – is entirely

usable as is, and plenty of people

appreciate the aesthetic of a bare board

on a desk.

For those who don’t, there are a wealth

of cases – both first- and third-party –

available. You’ll find one, the Raspberry

Pi 4 Stand, mounted on the cover of this

magazine, while the others in this group

test can be found at all major retailers.

Each case here has been tested for

aesthetics, complexity of assembly, and

its performance in keeping Raspberry Pi 4

running cool.

How we tested

Each case was given a heavy

synthetic workload to represent

a worst-case scenario. This

workload, which stresses

both the central and graphics

processors, runs for ten minutes

followed by a five-minute

cooldown period. Full details of

the workload can be found in The

MagPi issue 88, at magpi.cc/88.

GROUP TEST

Raspberry Pi

thermal cases

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