zoals je zelf al aangeeft, het betreft een advertentie, en dat is dus iets voor V&A
Ik heb ook de koelprestaties van deze case gemeten. Ik heb deze ook gepost in het Engels op
Reddit. Hieronder een kopie aangezien ik de neiging heb om op zijn tijd mijn post historie op te ruimen.
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This is not a review. This is just a quick test to check the thermal performance of the passively cooled official Orange Pi 5 Plus shell by comparing it to a popular third-party actively cooled shell and the shell itself with third-party quality thermal pads and paste. The heat generated by the memory modules and the NVMe drive aren't accounted for in this test.
Testing methodThe NVMe boot drive was prepared with a fresh Ubuntu 22.04.3 server image. No additional settings were made. Note that the system will no longer run on performance mode by default since ubuntu-rockchip v1.28. It was made sure the idle temperature was stabilized before starting the stress tests. The ambient room temperature was not controlled. Should be between 19 and 21 °C during the tests. Not sure about the humidity, let's say the test was performed in a typical healthy well-ventilated room during autumn in the Netherlands. Each stress test ran once for a maximum of 1 hour per case configuration. The assembly of the cases was done with great care, ensuring correct mounting pressures.
Results
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Plotly for an interactive graph and more raw sensor data. The included plot only shows the SoC temperature and average CPU frequency over all CPU cores.
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52Pi case with NF-A4x10 modificationThis case is also sold by Geeekpi on Amazon. Mine came with a pretty good low-noise fan. A Noctua NF-A4x10 5V fan isn't that much quieter. Don't believe the internet when they say a Noctua fan makes their Orange Pi quiet. It's still a 40mm fan. The Noctua does sound better. It lacks some of those annoying high pitches.
The original fan has to be directly plugged in on 5V and GND on the GPIO header using jumper headers. The Noctua fan was supplied with a jumper header accessory so I did the same thing. Connecting it this way leaves the fan always running at 100%, whether the system is powered on or off. The Orange Pi 5 Plus also has fan header with a 5V PWM signal to power the fan and GND. You can use this fan header for smart fan control, but it does need some connector modifications for both the stock and Noctua fan.
With just 20 minutes of stress testing, the 52Pi case with fan reached an SoC temperature of 60.1 °C under full CPU load. The test was cut short due to hitting stable temperatures pretty early on. No thermal throttling was observed.
- Cheapest option
- Excellent cooling capabilities
- Stock fan is a good low-noise fan
- Lots of fan noise despite it being a good low-noise fan
- Needs additional modifications for smart fan control
- Just a black boring prototype-looking case
Stock Orange Pi caseThe official Orange Pi 5 Plus case. Fully assembled using the stock-supplied thermal pads. A 22x22x1.0mm pad for the SoC and two 15x10x2.5mm pads for the memory modules.
The SoC temperature reached 79.5 °C after 1 hour full load. It was somewhat stabilized, still rising but very slowly. No thermal throttling was observed after an hour of 100% CPU load.
- Fair pricing
- Passive quiet cooling
- Aesthetically pleasing design
- It's a giant heat block and can be uncomfortable or too hot to touch
- Borderline asking for thermal throttling on sustained intensive workloads or warm climates
- Use of low-quality thermal pads
Orange Pi with GP-Extreme and NT-H2 modificationThe official Orange Pi 5 Plus case. Fully assembled using third-party thermal pads and paste. A 20x20x1.0mm pad for the SoC and two 15x10x2.5mm pads for the memory modules cut from 1.0 and 2.5mm Gelid Solutions GP-Extreme 120x20 thermal pads. The smaller SoC pad still covers the full contact area. Noctua NT-H2 thermal paste was used to improve thermal conductivity between the case and the heat block. There was like 0.8mm clearance between the case and my Samsung 980 drive, so the remainder of the GP-Extreme 1.0mm pad was used to cut and apply a 70x20mm pad for SSD cooling purposes.
The SoC temperature reached 72.1 °C after 1 hour full load. It was somewhat stabilized, still rising but very slowly. No thermal throttling was observed after an hour of 100% CPU load.
- Passive quiet cooling
- Aesthetically pleasing design
- Just creates that extra much-needed thermal headroom
- Expensive modification that stuff aint cheap
- It's a giant heat block and can be uncomfortable or too hot to touch
- Cheap screws, make sure to use the correct sized bits as you want some decent mounting pressure between the case and heat block after applying thermal paste
Afterthoughts
I'm not gonna do a recommendation. It all depends on your available budget, expected workload, and whether you appreciate silent operation and/or design. If you want to buy the same thermal pads and paste, it would cost an additional €30 in my country. That's more than the cost of the case itself.
Please note that the Orange Pi case is a passively cooled case. Passive cooling solutions behave differently from active cooling solutions. It all depends on how efficiently the heat can be transferred from the SoC to a thermal mass (the shell), and the ability of that thermal mass to release the heat to the environment. Ambient temperature and humidity play a role in the latter. So your results might differ depending on your environment.
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