Water Cooling Pi 5: cool, but complete overkill

Seeed Studio and 52Pi partnered up to make a Water Cooling Kit for Raspberry Pi 5, and they sent me one to test.

(They did not pay me to make this video, nor do they have any input into the contents, but they did provide me with a kit for testing, therefore I'm marking the video as 'sponsored'.)

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[KrisRogos]

You can spot an engineer because they only ask, "Can we?", never "Should we?"

[jfolz]

Mixing metals -could- will cause problems

[hey-da]

i could see it being used for a silent rackmount cluster near your workstation if you want a bunch of them for doing some clustering test/dev workloads.

[Gigachad-Thundercock]

I could see someone throwing several pi 5s into a regular pc case with a 240mm radiator and running that as desktop cluster

[OldMadScientist]

It's definitely a solution in search of a problem.

[kingkrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

You can add a solution to the coolant to make sure it doesn't corrode.

But keeping the metals the same or anodising the part that touches cooling solution would work the best.

[YSPACElabs]

I could see another use case: as a small water cooler for high power things (like a mosfet used as a constant load), but it also costs $120 and you can get a more powerful PC AIO for around the same price.

[shapelessed]

I... literally just soldered together a bunch of 0.4mm copper wires to a small copper plate and nickel-plated it at home for my Pi's... The ultimate DIY.

[Mr.Unacceptable]

If you get the block and use old AIO from another system it could be worth it. For a cluster I'd want a single block all built in to a stack of 5-6. maybe a Peltier stack would work better.

[DiamondMaster]

A cooler that costs more than the Pi itself 😂 that's definitely overkill

[trevorreece]

Looks at cabinet with radiators, pumps, and fans. Cool just need the blocks.

[teeteetuu]

Makes sense to daisy chain a few blocks together in a Pi cluster to make full use of such a cooling solution. But then again, a nice big heatsink on each and then a 120mm fan (or two) to blow through the cluster would provide similar performance at less cost and complexity (maintenance).

[Rushil]

This needs to come ready to cool *multiple* Pis at once. I can’t imagine any actual use cases for this outside of a very cool and quiet cluster under heavy load.

[harshbarj]

That thumbnail! It made it look like the meter had arms and was stretching.

[hiiamelecktro]

Why are we still mixing metals in 2024 😭

[thegreeneyej]

I’ve got the water block, and plan to connect it to my Zalman Water cooler tower..

[sysadmin-info]

I have seen it already on Michael's Klement channel. He did long time ago a water cooling for CM4 board and also Raspberry Pi 4. I modified his water cooling solutions for CM4 (you can see it on my channel). Anyway water cooling is always very efficient. I think I will buy Raspberry Pi 5 but I think that the bracket for the CPU aluminum block will have to be redesigned in some CAD software to make it work. I have a bracket CAD for Raspberry Pi 4 CPU block. The fan in this 120 USD model should be replaced because it is too loud. Anyway I like it and I want to adapt it for Raspberry Pi 5. Of course it will be much cheaper now, because I have a lot of of leftovers from the previous project. Wish me good luck.

[Evangelion]

"When the Cons outweighs Pros"
-An engineer

[Ma_X]

RP6 will need a cryogenic production facility nearby.

[markshasteen]

How many could you cluster on 1 rad before you reach the saturation point? 10?