Watercooling AIO Kit For Raspberry Pi 5!!

hey guys what's going on it's Don here from Nova Spirit Tech and welcome back to the channel and today I got a really cool product to show you guys which is water cooling the Raspberry Pi 5 kit so let's get [Music] started now I did see this water cooling kit from another Channel which is from Lee PSP video I'll leave a link down in the description below for that after I saw his video I reached out to Pi 52 and Seed Studio to see if they could send me the same exact kit and that's what they did so here we go this this is the box that we're going to open now as a disclaimer the Raspberry Pi 5 is does not actually need a water cooling kit the active cooler that comes with the Raspberry Pi 5 is more than enough to actually keep the temperatures down even at overclock speed of 3.0 but I was more excited about getting this kit because while I am able to water cool the Raspberry Pi 5 this kit is almost like all-in-one where I could use this for other applications like I have a laser cutter that uses CO2 that tube needs water to run through it to keep the laser cool having a water cooling kit like this I could could use that for that application or other stuff as well so I could overclock a GPU using this kit or anything else so just keep an open mind that yes while it is possible to overclock the raspberry 55 this is a little bit more of novelty but it's still very functional for other applications anyway let's check out what's in the box we have the styrofoam now this is the water cooling kit itself I love how it's like all enclosed into this metal case and this does weigh a bit so it won't topple over now it comes with two 8 mm Tube 8 mm internal diam uh tubes and power 12vt 2 amps the kit itself which is really really cool the CPU block for the Raspberry Pi 5 a bunch of um thermal pads a filler nozzle and the bottom plane for the Raspberry Pi to connect it to plus a huge thermop pad over here as well and that's about it as for what the box contains I do like that they inscribed everything on top as well you can see it says ice pump pi5 Seed Studio 52 pi and this is 120 mm rad and a water pump and this water pump I played around with it that's why you see water in there it is pretty strong now they do have RGB fan on this as well so you can see this pretty bright and they do have RGB over here as well on the bottom of the pump overall if you needed to mount this somewhere uh there are mounting holes on the side there's a 12 full Barrel connector on the side as well as well as a on and off switch now as far as the pump goes there's a screw up on top and a screw in front where you could actually fill it in both ways or add to this if you want then you have the area where you can stick the tubes in otherwise it's a very simple design compared to what I used to use on my Raspberry Pi 2's and Raspberry Pi 3 for the water cooling which you guys probably seen is this little setup right over here I use Alpha cool water pump and then a 40 mm x 120 mm height radiator and a few of the tubing for the CPU block obviously it's been a while since I played around with that and I've retired that for a while already I do need to flush it because the color dye in the water practically destroyed a lot of that stuff so I do need to flush it and get it out of there that's why on this test I'm actually not going to be using colored Dy I'm just going to be using distilled water just so I could keep reusing this pump for other purposes and I got a lot of other ideas down the road so we're going to be testing this against the Raspberry Pi with the active cooler uh there's no point in testing it without the cooler so I'm just going to test it with the cooler at stock speeds and then over clock speed and then on the water cooling I'm just going to test it on the overclock speeds so let's jump into it so here we are on the desktop of the raspberry piie this is a fresh formatt it I did install some programs on here just for uh stress testing and stuff we are using the active cooler on stock clock so here we go now this program I just wrote recently which helps me demonstrate what the temperatures are so I'm just going to run this and I wrote this in Python and here we go we are on 2.4 GHz right now and it's it's running roughly around 30 C now that's not really the idle temperature that it really sticks with because it's just freshly Boot and I haven't run this in like a past couple of hours so I know the idle around with this active cooler is around 40 to 45 or 45 actually so what I'm going to do right now is just run a stress test CPU and bring the temperatures up and then I'll let it settle back down and here we go we're just running CPU burn burn and you can see the temperature is going up it's running at 2.4 GHz it kind of like gets up to the point around like 49° when it's running this CPU burn after a while and it kind of idles around that at stock speed so I'm just letting it go up there right now so you could see it's 45° C right now it's going to get up to around 4950 before the fan actually starts kicking in and trying to keep it cool so right now it's 47 and if I want I'm just going to jump over to web browser hopefully the CPU burn doesn't kill it cuz I am using the CPU cores and I am going to show you what I was looking at over here oh I don't even have internet connected let's fix that and this is the kit that we are looking at now I'll leave a link down in the description below for this and where you could get it basically you get over here and the price of this is actually 120 USD which honestly I think it's not a bad price because if you get the pump and just a radiator and a fan and something to power it with it comes out to roughly around 80 to 90 bucks that's without the CPU Cooler and a few other attachment that comes with this so for 120 bucks it's actually a pretty decent price now going back to the cooler this does have like a whole setup kit on how to do it what pads are for what how to install everything and they did run some benchmarks themselves uh as far as the cooling techniques that they use so if you really needed the stat you they have on the website as well you see this 76 over here and obviously I don't think they have active cooler on this because it does run around 76 if they don't have active cooler and 35 with their water cooling kit now I'm going to go back into our figure and you can see right now the active fan just kicked on not too long ago and I think that's when it hit 50 but that's about it it doesn't go any higher than around here 54 55 and then it'll just hover around here when it's on stock speeds with the active cooler now what I'm going to do now is just close out of the browser close out of the stress test and let it idle for about I don't know 30 seconds or so and what's cool about the software that I'm using right now that I wrote um it records everything into a CSV file so I could actually just pull it into Excel and then turn it into a graph so you could see it's active right now of what it's recording but I'm going to be able to pull up a full chart and show you what it looks like so now the Fan's turned off around 45° and you can see it CH chills around 45 and then goes up to 46 kicks up a little and then comes back down and it just hovers right around this areir area for using an active cooler so now that we have some decent numbers I'm going to close out of this and just uh save the recording and then go into config and then I'm going to overclock this to 3 GHz okay with everything overclocked I'm going to jump right into a quick quick CPU burn and we'll see what the temperatures are so right now I'm going to go into CD uh Pym which is the program I wrote hit run and then I'm going to go over here and go to CPU burn and run CPU burn a53 and right away you could see the temperatures go up the fan already running now even with it overclocked to 3 GHz it never thermal throttles it always stays around 60 to 65° it never goes past 80 where it starts thermal throttling so the active cooler does a really really good job at keeping the temperatures low so honestly with with or without the or water cooling as long as you have the active cooler it does enough work but if you are planning to run maybe 10 15 I don't know eight whatever of these Raspberry Pi fivs and you don't want to run all the active coolers on each board you can run and daisy chain a bunch of these water cooling blocks over to one water cooler and probably keep everything even cooler so here we go around like 65° and the Fan's not even loud that means it's not even at 100% probably running at like 50% or so so it's doing a really good job at just keeping the temperature where it's supposed to be using just the active cooler now as you can see it just hovers right around there 65 66 and never ever gets up to 70 and all I'm doing is really just pinning the CPU usage I think I should be able to have htop on here and you can see look it's pinning all four CPUs um it's been going on for the last 5 minutes 1 minute or less than 5 minutes and that's about it I mean that's all I'm doing really just pinning the CPU all right so I'm going to get out of this and we're going to jump right into the water cooling but we're going to keep it at 3 GHz all right so the first thing we need to do is remove the old active cooler and I already took off the thumb screws and we have this little blue thing which I am going to take a little let's see if I can remove it this way and I'll just leave it on here for now I am planning to reuse the active cooler because that's a really good cooler itself so now we have a bunch of area that's open but now we need to add these pads now they come with these gray pads that I did not see what we need these for so I'm thinking it's extra and they have way too many of these Pink Pads I do know they have different sizes for different thicknesses so I know that certain parts need to go here so I have extras too so like this one goes for the CPU and I didn't peel them yet so it's not going to stick this one would go here actually nope that doesn't this one is the thicker square one so it would go here this would goes here because they all level out this another thick pad I guess because yeah that levels out like here and then a thin pad over here and I'm just going to start peeling them off and sticking them on and I'm not a huge fan of this part so I'm just going to do it all right there we have it the one on top so now we are going to actually place this block now if you're wondering if this would work on like a Raspberry Pi 4 the answer is no because of where the placement of the Nick is this will just not work on the Raspberry Pi 4 as you can see it will only work on the Raspberry Pi 5 even this doesn't allow it to install it because of the CSI same goes for the Raspberry Pi 2 or three it doesn't fit because of that so this will only work on the Raspberry Pi 5 now I am going to place this down like so and kind of get it or at least try to get it in line with the holes on the bottom and it actually fits pretty well so right now it's stuck on and that's how it looks and then I'm going to do the bottom portion of this which is this big pad over here get it right by the SD card and whatever components there are down there this is a really big thermal pad and then we'll stick this part on the bottom and then it comes with a bunch of these screws and uh and the Allen key there we have it it's actually installed very well it's not coming up it's very sturdy and it alone I think this is just having this alone wow makes it so heavy is enough to keep it cool without having to use the active cooler but now all I have to do is just install the hoses on one end and then install the hose on the other end all right so that's how it would look and then now I just have to install it on the cooler [Music] itself and that is it basically I have everything all lined up now I'm going to add some water to this run the pump let the air bubbles flow out and then start testing it all right so here we go this is the full water cooling setup of this Raspberry Pi 5 which is really really cool and it's so quiet like you don't hear the pump you do hear the fan but obviously if you the flame with something more quiet you could probably reduce that noise but otherwise it's really really quiet all right so fresh boot let's jump into it and we're going to run Pi temp and let's see what the temperatures are now since it's a fresh boot it might be really low like 30s so we're going to have to run it up a little bit like before but wow you can see it's actually going to 21 20 and let's Pump It Up with the CPU burn and let's see where this takes it to so right now I'm running CPU burn 3 GHz water cooling and it's hovering around 30° it is ridiculous all right 32 it's coming up and down from 30s it's really ridiculously cool I'm going to show you a thermal reading right now just to see how the block looks like when it's being cooled and I got to say I'm extremely impressed with this setup right now I've been running for about 2 minutes or so on the CPU burn and it's still hovering around like 32 3 3° did bump up a little bit to 34 but still it's not anywhere near 65 like it was before with active cooler so this does do a huge difference double the performance of what active cooler can do and honestly I probably could get a little bit more performance out of this if I swapped out the fin or aimed it not in front of a area where you really don't get much air but it's so cool like everything is just cool to the touch more impressively I think this is a complete setup that I could use for a a lot of other applications so I will be doing that but first if you want me to test more overclocking on the Raspberry Pi 5 with this setup let me know down in the comments below again everything we talked about will be linked down in the description below as well so if you want to get yourself a kit but again we can use this kit on Mini PCS or anything else even 3D printers if you want to because this is a full I don't know what I would do it on a 3D printer but this is a full water cooling kit which is really cool anyway all in all I'm very impressed is it overkill for a Raspberry Pi 5 absolutely like I said the active cooler does way more than enough good of a job to keep everything cool even at overclock speeds but this just takes it to another notch anyway if you guys are new to this channel consider subscribing and also hitting that Bell notification icon so you know when the next video is going to be out and I say my ner cave hack tiller HZ

Channel: Novaspirit Tech

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Length: 14min 44sec (884 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 08 2024