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    System temperature really hot

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    • KirAsh4K Offline
      KirAsh4 Moderator
      last edited by KirAsh4

      My fan is quiet, but remember that these are cheap fans. You may get a very noisy one. Fans are cheap, you can buy a bunch of them and figure out which is the quietest. Or you can find some really quiet ones through an electronics vendor such as DigiKey or Mouser, and pay a higher price for them. I replaced two 30mm square, very noisy fans on my 3D printer, $7 each at the time. Now they’re a little over $9. Good fans are expensive.

      FYI, both my rpis are running at 1GHz.

      A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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        plumcraft
        last edited by

        Thanks for your replies, i’m going to buy a new box for my Pi 3 with a quality fan

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          dmcinnes Module Developer @KirAsh4
          last edited by

          Thanks @KirAsh4 ! I bought a case to try out as well.

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          • MichMichM Offline
            MichMich Admin
            last edited by

            Mine is around 65C as well. Stable, for the past few months.

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            • MichMichM Offline
              MichMich Admin
              last edited by

              Good to know: mine isn’t actively cooled. It’s not inside a box, but it is inside the Mirror’s casing.

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              • KirAsh4K Offline
                KirAsh4 Moderator
                last edited by

                With mine, as the temperature started to get higher and higher, the HDMI started dropping out. It would cause the monitor to blank out momentarily. It would stop late in the evening and be fine, but then during the day I would start seeing it again. Boosting the HDMI signal on the rpi didn’t help (in fact it made the temperature go up a bit higher even), but whenever I just blew across the rpi’s CPU, it would stop. That’s how I realized it was just getting too hot, even at the default speed. Now that I put it in a case with a fan, I haven’t had any issues.

                A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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