The Best Raspberry Pi 4 Cooler! The Ice Tower Also works on the Pi 3 & Pi 3B+
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2019
- This is the Best cooler I’ve ever tested for the Raspberry Pi 4 3 or 3b+ its called the Ice Tower and it lives up to its name!
An insane Tower cooler for the Raspberry Pi 4 is something we really didn’t need but always wanted.
In this video, I test out the thermal performance on the Ice Tower cooler for the Raspberry Pi 4 Raspberry 3 and The Raspberry Pi 3 plus.
Sorry for the quick re-upload, The last chart was a little messed up in the original.
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Sorry for the quick re-upload, The last chart was a little messed up in the original.
Overclock overclock overclock!!!
overclock overclock overclock!!!
do some bigger oc on it
See if you can get it to 2ghz +
Maybe try some thermal compound and see if it improves the cooling compared to thermal pads!!
1:09 It's a parent and their newborn. Cutest thing I've seen in tech.
Please overclock it with the big cooler. I want to see 2 ghz.
Putting the Ice Tower on the Pi4: 1:49 thru 3:56
Benchmarks start at 4:58
Maxing out all cores at 6:24
I love you
Thanks, can you please do overclock?
The first Core 2 Quad system I built back in 2009 was all tricked out with LED fans & I had Heat pipes on all my coolers. I special ordered a Southbridge Cooler almost exactly like that, same fan & Grill config. Interesting, very cool (no pun intended)
I'm so happy this video exists, bless your heart.
Brought one of these for my Pi4 and it was a pleasure to see they added an extra standoff, screw and nut plus a little screwdriver in the kit, Don't know how many times I've put something together and dropped a screw or nut and couldn't find it plus I put all 3 thermal pads on because they were so thin
Nice testing! I'm going to get a Pi4 for my everyday computer so i can do some robotics dev. I will get the ice tower, but not bother with adding the fan for just a few degrees difference. Mainly because I like it nice and quiet and fans tend to add noise. All good wishes. I gave you a thumbs-up.
This is great! I already had the heatsinks on my pihole, and I happened to have a spare fan laying around. Temps in the pihole web interface dropped 6C instantly.
The Ice Tower is bad ass looking. Thanks for showing it off.
"Like always, thanks for watching"........ Like always, thanks for sharing :) . I was waiting for this video. So good to know that the fan is not needed when using the Ice Tower heatsink only.
This cooler looks impressive, why not play with some overclocking and see if this cooler lets you achieve newer performance heights?
One of the "coolest" accessories... I see what you did there
Wow it looks awesome, perfect miniature tower cooler.
Awesome review but the stand out in the test is the 20mm heatsink with fan. You could even get a better or bigger heatsink to improve the cooling and still get inside a nice case. I'm trying to find better cooling for odroid xu4q to avoid thermal throttling.
Any cooling solution that also comes with a custom case?
Very cool cooling solution, no pun intended. It would have been nice if there was some kind of compatible case/enclosure you can use for this set up.
Great review. Thanks. It would be nice to see temperatures for using only a fan without a heatsink.
I'd love to see the Ice Tower with it's corresponding case.
It would also be cool to do some OCing with your new toy as well.
At least something that beats my cooling method. Mine is at 45c max. Will purchase this guy.
When I got the ice tower it didn't come with instructions I just went by pictures for me the video here question where does the power cord for the ice tower go
You always show the coolest stuff...
I have nice results with some very cheap cooling blocks (included in some kit) and a 60mm Noctua 5v fan (I run it on 3v). I bought some raspi cooling kit but the cheap included fans were way too loud at night
Great option for overclocking but I thought of another possibility: What can this beauty do for a Peltier 12705/6 tablet? ... if it is not expensive I will still test it.
I ordered two of these before even seeing the cooling results. It's large and looks wicked so if it cools as good as a bare tiny heat sink, I'm happy!
Yeah got this ice tower also but gives around 46-47c. My other heat sink is better and cheaper plays around 42-43c
I don't usually use the word but damn that's cute. Actually reasonably priced for what it is too, there's a lot of manufacturing required. Innovative mounting mechanism too, I was wondering how it mounted. It's outrageously overkill and I don't _need_ one but now I definitely _want_ one.
It may not get any performance gains, but it surely will have longevity improvements with lower temperatures. ;) Great video, it'll be really interesting to see cases made with compatibility for this beast of a cooler!
i'm interested to see what a pi4 ARMOR case will do if it has contact points on the CPU, RAM and GPU
I have a pi3b+ armor case, I might try milling it to fit the pi4 .....
Amazing mate, nice tests!
I love this thing, it keeps my 3b+ at a chill 2.2ghz
Great work, thanks for your time!!
How about comparing it with the Argon case.. I would definitely like to see the temperature graphs
I'd love to see how this (clearly over-the-top) cooler changes the over-clocking game.
love your videos. however on your temp chart you should make it abit more clear if its F or C you use. i know its c but some might be confused? thanks for all of your awesome videos! :D
Nice cooling man but will be enough space to add heatsink for the ram, USB and Ethernet chips? Or just get the normal case with fan and heatsinks?
Dedicated heatsink attachment points on the PCB would be greatly appreciated, even if only 2 mm in diameter. Maybe the foundation can set a standard like they pretty much did with the I/O pins.
So how do you mount the Pi afterwards? I have the MB mounts for my arcade using the 4 holes on the PI and they are needed for this cooler (Yes sime case or bottom plate mount would be great)
I actually hope for casebuilders to compliment the block instead of hiding it, because this is the cutest "badass" you can get for the pi. i seriously want to play with a a base case and try to test airflow in a simulator. any recommendations?
Love the videos man
Nice, thanks a lot for that, REALLY helpful. Is there any Case (probably with a hole in it) that will go well with the solutions with a fan?
I have some files if you want to print one
@@jonah9689 I’d like to, could you provide us with a link or mail please? Thanks :)
I picked up the ice tower with an acrylic case and its beautiful. Also running the Pi4 with an m.2 ssd and its faster then my wife's laptop most of the time. kind funny.
interesting is use cooler without fan... good temperature. have You try to put cooler 90 degree for use natural ascension of hot air? maybe temps could be lower
Would the cooling that you were using on that miniITX build work with Ryzen 3000-series? I'd like to build a high performance miniITX ryzen build sometime
Does the new Raspbian image not come with Wolfram Alpha and Mathematica anymore?
If the fan off isn't making too much of a difference, could try putting a Noctua fan. Since this is pretty cheap, that fan is probably airflow optimized, and isn't able to push much. Noctua fans are good for static pressure and still quiet.
I use the Noctura 5v fan mounted onto an open air plexiglass case with aluminum heat sinks and the latest RPi4 firmware.
Now you need a case that looks like a mini PC tower and this thing would be awesome!!!
Would love to see the temps with some CL Liquid Ultra/Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut
Is it usual for fan to look like it is slowing due to lights chanbging or have i dione something wrong? Live on pin 1, ground on 3
It looks so cute with that big heatsink hahaha
Thermal grizzly or gtfo 😂 Also, I *really* want to get a PWM controlled Noctua on there.
Great video, and fantastic little product. Absolutely love it.
Any cases that will work with the ice tower though? If so i'll totally buy/print one.
That is the cutest tower cooler. you should put a little Noctua fan on it.
Please do overclocking comparisons with and without this cooler.
Could you please test the Ice Tower with the fan at 5V and the fan at 3V. What would be the dB difference. It should be a lot quiter at 3V. Thanks
I want to know if I use this raspberry pi 4 inside a car which park under a) open air or b) Car Park in a building, will it cause a fire or flame when there is a program or app running in it with respect to with and without Ice Tower? In short, it is safe to run a program on raspberry pi 4 inside a car which is 1) turn off and 2) is running on the road with aircon turn on. Thanks
Any chance you will be performing the same tests on a pi4 with the flirc pi4 case or the kodi pi4 case?
the 40 mm Fan with a copper heat sink would be nice to see in comparison with the alu heat sink. to see if copper is worth it.
Thanks for all your nice videos i just descovered your channel.
They need to make a case that's compatible with the icetower fan it looks so cool!
I'm getting a bartop arcade cabinet it has the rasberry pi 3b+,in it,running hyperpi,I've seen they have one of these on ebay but it's the low profile one,should i get one of these i wont be over clocking just plying arcade classics and PSP and Nintendo 64 games,just wasn't sure if i need this to play these games,also does it draw to much power when plugging this into the pi.or should I get the flirc case.
I know they released a new kernel to address the overheating issue, could you comment on which version where you having, and if you could repeat with the updated kernel, thanks!!!
Now I am curious to how much you can overclock it with that fan on :D.
Do you know if I can fit the Geekworm Raspberry Pi 4 X862 M.2 NGFF with the ICE tower?
ETA Prime could you do a video on installing a pi 3 or 4 into an old laptop and getting the keyboard to work without the use of USB?
Would love to see some game cpu load test once emulation is working also how loud is this fan
Little advice, use two fans at half the speed. The airflow will be the same but the noise will be a lot less compared to one fan.
That’s not how fluid dynamics works... the velocity doesn’t go up by a factor of 10 when I stack 10 fans on top of each other when they go the same rpm they did before now does it? So why would it for 2 or 3 or 500? It doesn’t... airflow is volumetric flow rate, or area of fan times velocity, so no matter how manny hundreds of fans you stack push/pull, the velocity won’t just increase by a multiplier like that without the RPM increasing (I do have duel stage contra rotating server fans, the front is 7 blade vane and the second stage is 5 blade with aggressive pitch, they run different RPM to maximize airflow, however don’t be fooled thinking they aren’t doing this to increase RPM/velocity/airflow, just look at the math, volume per time is airflow, and that’s area times velocity (distance^3/time).
Not at “half the speed. The airflow will be the same”, that is physically not possible, and to that I’d say study physics. I have an aerospace engineering degree, but I will still say “it’s not rocket science”, the physics is very easy to understand.
If you still don’t understand, draw it out, you can simplify the airstream as particles slapping an angled blade, or simply envision the particle being thrown from a blade of X diameter and Y RPM with Vtrsfr_efficiency= ~90%, and then envision that particle hitting the second blade again at the same X and Y V, meaning that it really can only gain approximately 9% faster velocity with the second fan. That would be roughly 49.5 units/time vs 90 units/time, that’s certainly not the same...
Also your dB scale is wrong, it’s logarithmic the other way, it would be 12dBA vs 15dBA (not 3 dBA, my goodness, an inaudible cricket a mile away would be on that scale!)
@@jakegarrett8109 . I actually have a physics degree and have been over two decades in the field of acoustics and extensive experience in practical research and testing. So i think i know a thing or 2 about these things. I would highly suggest googling/searching the relationship between acoustic noise levels vs RPM, because yes that is a 50 log. Fans are somewhat between a coherent and incoherent source, so therefore the 3-6 (more like 5) dB if you double them. Two fans in series have the ability to deliver double the amount of air. Especially in a push-pull configuration were there is quite some resistance (like a heatsink). But hey, do whatever you want with it, i am not here to have a nitpicky debate about things that can easily be found on your favorite search engine and has been used for the past 70 years or so.
@@jakegarrett8109 I also don't have a clue what you're talking about, but I can confirm that @Merlin Gallagher is absolutely right in this. Time to get out of your dusty books and lab and see how things work in the real world would be my advice as a technical consultant and CTO of different tech teams (so fun when people show off their so called degree)
The giant fan is fun, but maybe the oversized fan would make more sense if integrated into a case design. Maybe even something with a cross draft that still left room for installing a pi hat of some kind.
How does it ice tower sound?? i mean the small fan does make a high pitch sound on high rpm.
I was actually going to buy one of these, but they always seem to be sold out on Amazon.
Hi, can you tell me the size of the thermal pads in millimeters (1.5mm or 2.0mm?)
what a monster cooler ! :-o
So OK for the cpu... what about the memory bank ? Don't you need to cool the ram too ?
Can you set it up to connect to a pwm pin or something and make it variable or at least an on off based on temp either way you should do a tutorial on something like that
buys a cooler for raspberry pi, runns a hello world python program #me
how can one use GPIO at the same, is there some kind of Extension or something?
wow, thanks. That was very helpful. I love the look of Ice Tower but I'm building a cluster so with many options I should choose 20 mm fan - that won't hit my wallet 😅
How much noise does the fan make? Is it a quiet or noisy fan? Thanks...
Do you have any tips for mounting the 40mm fan?
I want to Gaming on raspberry pi SBC's. Like pubg mobile, CSGO, Dirt 3. So which sbc is good for me? My budget is 50-55$. So plz help me.
Hi ETA. Any news you can share on Retroflag's pi4 cases?
neat. when will they have a case that accommodates it?
so cute! tiny tower cooler
Such a cool video.
It's nice to see the temperature differences but I wanted to know the performance difference. Like, how much time was saved performing tasks when the CPU wasn't throttling vs when it was throttling.
I personally don't care if my Pi runs hot or cool, but if it makes a demonstrable difference in performance then I care a lot!
Looks nice and all but i think i will wait for iUniker or GeekPi to make a dual fan heatsink instead since that heatsink and fan would be a little too big for the cases i have.
Any comments on the sound when the tower fan is running?
Do you have a link to the pink thermal pad?
You have some mentionable board flex I would loosen a screw is just a little bit
cool~ ice tower! that's amazing! Love it so much~~~
Rgb, finally we can start gaming on the Pi!😎👌
Is there an case you can fit the RPi + Ice Tower in it?
I can picture some company coming up with a low-profile case with the fan coming out from on top. I'd buy it! 👍🏼
i would love some toy car model case for it ... PImp my Rasp :-)
Can you show us some overclocking performance with that?
Is the height good for applying thermal paste instead of thermal pad?
Try testing again (just one run with the Ice Tower) at a 20% overclock.
What a cute little cooler
So where are the new Pi4 cases? Hopefully someone will offer a FLIRC-like case with an optional cooling fan.
42C Minutes, nice unit you developed!
Cool but it's bulky and cools the CPU only. On the other hand 40mm fan mounted horizontally above the board is much more compact and cools all the components too, eg usb controller.
A challenging idea : I'd love to see this board in a little laptop chassis with 12" 1080p screen , huge battery taking pretty much all under the keyboard minus the space for the board and heat sink with fan besides the board instead of in top , so it stays as slim as possible, a copper pipe running over all the chips and to the heat sink , will do a great job I guess . inline ports soldered to the board instead of the 2 levels ports that are giving too much thickness for a laptop case implementation .