Should You Water Cool Your Raspberry Pi 5?

In this video, we'll take a look at a new water cooling kit that has been designed for a Raspberry Pi 5 and we'll see how its custom water block and performance stack up against my DIY solution to see whether it's worthwhile to water cool your Pi 5.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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PURCHASE LINKS
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Tool & Equipment Used:

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
0:53 Cooling Options
1:32 Test Process
2:51 Active Cooler
4:08 Water Cooling Kit
6:02 DIY Water Cooler
7:08 Final Thoughts

If you've got any ideas for Raspberry Pi, Arduino, or other Electronics projects or tutorials you'd like to see, let me know in the comments section.

[littlezero]

Always liked your original project. I was always hoping for a follow-up video on what you used the cluster for.

[BenCos]

finally catching up on old videos
nice setup btw

[barge]

i bought your pi 4 case kit and it works really well thanks

[blackmennewstyle]

Super duper dope my South African brother 🔥🚀
Have a great week ans stay awesome ❤

[de-bodgery]

Try your pump and radiator on the copper water block. You may be seeing better cooling from air flow, larger radiator or a more powerful pump. Plastic sides on the copper block aren't going to do much and it has a lot more horizontal surface for liquid to extract heat from. Any water block works best from a turbulent flow. Maybe the copper block is too "smooth" and "laminer" in its flow to get the same results? First thing of course is to make as many variables the same so you can eliminate them. You can also run your water block on the others pump and radiator. What does that do?

[Famine]

*High End gaming pc's today will use double the power* that an average house with every electrical device all running at once so in my current build I'll be adding in the Raspberry Pi 5 for daily pc use for email, & youtube. The water block made by Seeed Studio has G1/4 threads so any water cooling fittings will work, including hard tube fittings, & since the pc I am building is going to be all glass tubing, this will not look cringe. I am also planning on installing a small led monitor for system monitoring, & with the RPi5 installed I'll have it connected to this screen so it can stay on while the PC is off, to monitor for everything my phone already monitors (emails, etc), but it will also monitor for leaks inside of the case, so I know not to power on the gaming pc.

So I ordered & have received the Pi5 water block already & once this current pc is built (I'm having a hard time finding the time needed) all I'll need is a KVM switch to switch the keyboard, video, & mouse over from the main pc's K, V, & M ...think once I build & post the video on my main youtube channel I'd bet we'll see it copied in new youtube build videos, having this built in to me it is just common sense, because we are all struggling these past few years.

*btw, Right now the Seed Studio RPi5 water block is currently only $16 bucks (normally $20), this is only the block & the pads, screws, back plate, soft tube g1/4 connections, so everything but the pump, soft tubing, fan, & radiator.*

[IngmarSolissa]

I think the temp differences comes from the power input chip thats getting cooled by the copper block and not by yours. That part gets pretty warm.

[reillydunn]

awesome video! i dont know much about the water cooling as im just getting into this hobby and i will be buying this system. so i have a noobie question for you lol, do you use just plain water with some sort of coloring or do u put actual rad coolent in her?

[-someone-.]

Yours is the OG flux capacitor. It looks like they tried to copy yours.
Well done Michael 👋

[jcdammeyer]

Is it a fair comparison when yours only covers the CPU while the commercial unit also covers the other two devices?

[sysadmin-info]

I am just curious is it possible to replace the fan and use another one that is more quiet? I did my own water cooling solution for CM4 by copying your DIY project for CM4 and since then I am a fan of water cooling. However it was expensive. 120 USD is much more below the price I achieved when I built my own project. So almost in the same price I can buy Raspberry Pi 5 in Poland. Raspberry is cheaper a little bit (few bucks less). However I would like to see a case for Raspberry Pi 5 with water cooling, similar to the one you made for CM4.

[yeranyjimenez]

Hello Michael, i really like your videos, i wish i could get in touch with you to talk about a weather station project very similar to one you uploaded a while ago on your channel.

[xyicre]

Hi @Michael Klements, I know you've built a cool case for a beelink mini pc in the past. Ryzen processors in these mini pc's are becoming a lot better, and also produce a lot more heat. Would you consider building a water cooling solutions for one? Nothing like this exists on Youtube currently, and these mini pc's are becoming increasingly popular, and besides the fans can be obnoxiously loud under load! Cheers

[TinTalon]

I think your kits looks better. I get flack all the time for using 52pi ice tower coolers on my Pi4 and Pi5s from facebook groups saying "do you think this like an intel cpu, its only a raspberry pi" but i dont care...if they running cooler then why not! Never water cooled a Pi before but it looks like fun to try.

[Nagual_Jo]

I want some of this green power in a nespi case 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[davidg]

Agreed that they should've used an Al block. For an RPi, there really isn't much benefit of Cu over Al.
It's a hilarious product and I love it. Totally fun overkill for a single RPi but a pretty good idea for clusters.
My RPI5 also can't stay at 3GHz stably though it can do 2.9GHz all day long. RPi5 is still in early production with rev. 1 boards, so I think later ones will hit 3GHz just fine (much like my early RPi4 can't hit 2.4GHz, but my later two run 2.4GHz just fine). I'm sure >3GHz will be unlocked at some point, too, either via hack or firmware update.

[TheLukemcdaniel]

Shouldn't the baseline be w/o cooling?

[g.o.a.t]

I see this being the best effective option for clustered applications but
It's ridiculous to have this on a single Pi.
By the way, who, how or where did you manufacturered your kits ??

[Ditzz]

Please building a CyberDeck with a Raspberry Pi sir.

[thomasvnl]

Why though? Just buy a real computer at this point