My favorite raspberry pi case so far was this one, with pretty colors. With a heatsink on the CPU, the temperature averaged around 56 degrees C. Other cases I've used include this one without the top for air ventilation, and this one for Pi Zero, which is simple and utilitarian.
Recently I decided to try to clean up the mess of Raspberry Pis by the router, and got a "cluster-type" case to put them all together. Assembly was trickly, but the end result looks clean. The only issue is the temperatures, which are roughly 10-15 degrees C warmer inside the cluster than outside, where the devices were exposed to ambient room temperatures and air currents. Although the case did come with extra heatsinks for LAN and CPU, some devices did not receive the new addition (for space reasons), and so they heat up. Average around 60 C, warmer for items nested deeper in the case. With temperatures going even higher when I leave for travel and raise the A/C setting, it behoves me to get something that could permit more air-flow, and thus it was. The next case will be a stackable dog-bone style set.
Recently I decided to try to clean up the mess of Raspberry Pis by the router, and got a "cluster-type" case to put them all together. Assembly was trickly, but the end result looks clean. The only issue is the temperatures, which are roughly 10-15 degrees C warmer inside the cluster than outside, where the devices were exposed to ambient room temperatures and air currents. Although the case did come with extra heatsinks for LAN and CPU, some devices did not receive the new addition (for space reasons), and so they heat up. Average around 60 C, warmer for items nested deeper in the case. With temperatures going even higher when I leave for travel and raise the A/C setting, it behoves me to get something that could permit more air-flow, and thus it was. The next case will be a stackable dog-bone style set.
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