GeeekPi ICE Tower Cooler for Raspberry Pi 5, with Aluminum Heatsink with Cooling Fan for Raspberry Pi 5 4GB/8GB (Raspberry Pi 5 is NOT Included)

After a few months, I decided to swap out the stock cooling system (yellow anodized heatsink and fan). The stock cooling was just fine for the Bitaxe Supra, but I wanted to overclock it and heat is always bad for performance and longevity of your equipment.I installed a 52pi ICE-Tower Cooler (for Raspberry Pi 5) and I used Arctic MX-6 thermal paste.I also had to re-solder the fan wires at the hub (pull the decal back to access), so that the wiring convention would match up to the pins/connection on the board (5v, Ground, Tachometer, PWM).However, I didn't mind the extra noise of the stock fan running at 100%, so I swapped that one back onto the 52pi ICE-Tower Cooler (in lieu of the ICE Tower provided fan).With these "upgrades", I have been running the Bitaxe Supra at 784 Mhz with Input Voltage at 1.333 VDC, which sets the "Expected" hash rate at 1.0 TH/s (1,000 GH/s).Efficiency runs at about 24.6 J/TH (Watts), give or take, with ASIC Temp as high as 49°C or cooler, depending on room temperature. For example, I've had the ASIC Temp go as low as 37°C.I had initially purchased the 52pi ICE-Tower Cooler for my Bitaxe Gamma, but it wasn't as effective on that little heat generator. On my Bitaxe Gamma, I installed the Argon THRML 60-RC, and it works great on the Gamma.In closing, an impressively compact, yet effective design, the 52pi ICE-Tower Cooler is perfect for the Bitaxe Supra.

My first example of this cooler was for my Pi 4, which allows me to overclock it to 2.4GHz reliably for the last 3 years or so. This version works equally well on my Pi 5, though I’m not OCing my 5, as performance running Kubuntu 23.10 is excellent, out of the box (when coupled with an NVMe SSD). Regardless, this keeps the CPU nice and cool with the default fan profile. Much of the time the fan doesn’t need to spin, with the CPU idling at ~42 with the fan spun down. Because the fan doesn’t need to work hard, it spins slowly, even when all four CPU cores, and the GPU, are 100% busy, with soc temps never exceeding 62c. Bump the fan profile to a more aggressive profile and those temps can be reduced across the board by 10 degrees.The only real problem with this cooler is it has no provision for cooling the new south bridge, or memory. This might pose a problem for those who opt to aggressively OC this version of the Pi. I’d like to see them design a version with a block extension to cover some of the additional IC packages on the board.That said, it’s still an excellent cooler (and it looks cool).

Well crafted

I like this little guy because you can still add heat sinks to the other chips with out getting in the way of the main unit.

This thing definitely keeps your Raspberry Pi 5 cold as ICE! So much so in fact you will at first assume that the fan is in fact just dead but this is only because the heat sink does most of the work. But once you run a stress test (I used s-tui) and once the heat gets to much then you will see the fan kick on. So if you notice it seems to never run that is why. I must admit after seeing the fan that came with my previous heat sink running all the time I at first found it odd that this fan barely runs at all, which is a very good thing. Note: The RGB LED's still function without the fan running.

Yea this thing ROCKS! Im Pushing OVER 2 T/Hs with this cooler!

Colors and brightness are bit underwhelming, but the unit works fine.

The cooler mounted with no problem. looks good, cabling is great. I was not able to use it because I'm running a geekworm 1001 NVMe hat which gets in the way of the cooler. for this project the NVMe is a higher priority. I wull be using this on my Pi5s with no NVMe. you can bet that