heatsink

[DougieLawson]

We should take a moment of silence in their memory.

No we shouldn't. Anyone who broke their RPi by badly fitting a useless heatsink deserved what happened. It's in the same category as the folks who fry their GPIO pins by not using a current limiting resistor.

[jamesh]

The pi is fine. The heat-sink is fine and appreciated; I know the value of keeping silicon cool and temperatures within a narrow range, even if it's not needed under normal conditions, silicon wear occurs due to differences in heat for the most part. The missive to Microsoft is the result of my long-term association with them, their manuals are indecipherable, their websites un-navigable, but their products are, really, impeccable.

Worth noting that the expected lifetime of a Pi processor, without a heatsink, not overclocked, is about 40years. Overclocked about 35 years. Overvolted, less than that, but not by a relevant amount.

The silicon 'wear' through thermal cycling and general use is pretty slow. The PCB will fail first in the vast majority of cases.

[Heater]

This is much worse than I thought.

My Pi 2 SoC is registering 43C on my IR thermometer. So is the USB chip. The RAM is down at 38C. But wait, my USB WIFI dongle is roasting at 44C.

I need 4 heat sinks!

[rpdom]

This is much worse than I thought.

My Pi 2 SoC is registering 43C on my IR thermometer. So is the USB chip. The RAM is down at 38C. But wait, my USB WIFI dongle is roasting at 44C.

I need 4 heat sinks!

My kettle is boiling at 100°C

[RaTTuS]

This is much worse than I thought.

My Pi 2 SoC is registering 43C on my IR thermometer. So is the USB chip. The RAM is down at 38C. But wait, my USB WIFI dongle is roasting at 44C.

I need 4 heat sinks!

My kettle is boiling at 100°C

43+43+38+44 >168C
so approx gas mark 3
nice for long slow cooking

[Burngate]

43+43+38+44 >168C
so approx gas mark 3
nice for long slow cooking

So how many Pi's will I need to reach the sun's surface temperature?

[DougieLawson]

I'll add my eight to the mix
******** Apollo temp=32.6'C
******** Eagle temp=30.9'C
******** Pi temp=42.2'C
******** Raspberry temp=46.5'C
******** yrrebpasR temp=37.9'C
******** Odyssey temp=39.0'C
******** Aplus temp=27.2'C
******** RaspberryPi temp=47.1'C
that gets us 303.4° closer to 5,778°K

[jerryemerydelacruz]

Heat-sinks look cool! Especially the anodized ones.

[Jednorozec]

Heat-sinks look cool! Especially the anodized ones.

So keep adding heat sinks until you run out of room.

[ame]

Heat-sinks look cool!

They are supposed to.

[DougieLawson]

Heat-sinks look cool!

They are supposed to.

They may look cool but they do the square root of naff all in keeping your RPi cool.

[jamesh]

[ame]

Heat-sinks look cool!

They are supposed to.

They may look cool but they do the square root of naff all in keeping your RPi cool.

Whoosh!