Active Cooler for Raspberry Pi 5, Aluminum Heatsink and Cooling Fan

Comes with twice the needed thermal pads and (nylon) screws, along with a cheap screwdriver. There is a simple guide to what thermal pads go where that you should follow when installing because there are 3 different thicknesses of thermal pads. Installed a fresh copy of raspberry pi os lite and the fan started spinning, so it seemed to work with no noticeable noise in my environment. Currently seems to be idling at ~50 C.

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.

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)_/¯

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

This fits perfectly and comes with correct connectors. Works well to keep pi cool. comes with everything needed.

The replacement fan works as expected. The fan on my unit is very quiet (quieter than the RPi Active Cooler, IMO). Running stress tests now, and fully loaded, the cpu temp is holding at 57-60 C. I also have the AI Hat+ installed w/slightly longer standoffs (no physical interference with the cooler), and a taller gpio header. I'm monitoring fan speed w/"watch cat /sys/devices/platform/cooling_fan/hwmon/*/fan1_input" and with the 100% cpu load, the fan speed fluctuates between about 2500 and 4500 rpm. Mostly at 2500 w/short bursts at 4500. Almost inaudible, even at 4500 rpm. So all seems good for now. I'll keep an ear out for fan/bearing noise over time. Held back one star for the hassle of dealing with a DOA. Fan dead right out of the box. Didn't spin at startup init; didn't spin with high temp. I have 8 other RPi5's with a variety of fans, all of which work. Disappointing. Returning for replacement. We'll see how the next one does.

Why did you pick this product vs others?: 1. Silent under stress (had to poke the fan to know it was working) 2. Easy to install, has screws that you can cinch right up 3. Bigger heat sink and fan than stock

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

Keeps my rpi 5 nice and cool.

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.