A new case for the pi

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The pi was an amazing little device. However the original plastic case is rather limited in air ventilation, viewing a HD video on Netflix could easily makes it overheated to have the CPU throttled! Having no choices but putting the pi into a new case for daily desktop use…

There were so many cases on TaoBao and here is a cheap one I bought for just around HKD 33.

The package contaiing the metal case, fan and head sinks.
The pi inside the case with a fan installed, connected to +5v and GND.
The completed case with the fan.

The whole assembly process took around 10 minutes and I got the pi running with the fan in the new case. However the fan was really noisy and I suspect the vibration of the case made it even louder! So anohter few minutes in removing the fan in favour for a quiet fanless pi!

The fan was found to be really noisy! Removed it at the end.

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