Description
Looking for the best heat sink for your Raspberry Pi 3? Check out this nice and tall
15x15x15mm Heat Sink!
This heat sink is made from high quality aluminum and will work perfectly with
any Raspberry Pi but is best paired with a Raspberry Pi 3 since it can run a little
hot. It comes with thermal adhesive already applied to the back making installation
super easy. Clean the surface of the chip of any dust or grease then peel off the
protective film and press the heat sink firmly onto the chip. You can use this
heatsink with any of our injection molded Adafruit Pi Enclosures, but it may not
work with other enclosures and most HATs will not fit on top with the heat sink
installed.
We don't have formal specs for this heat sink, but when we ran 'stress -c 4' on the
Pi 3 to run all 4 CPUs, a heat-sink-less Pi quickly dropped down to 0.96 GHz to
maintain thermal equilibrium. With this heat sink installed, it could run at 1.16GHz
(so, 20% higher performance)
Note that you do not
need
a heatsink for the Pi 3, it will automatically adjust its
speed to avoid overheating! It can also, of course, be used for other processors
Product Dimensions: 15.0mm x 15.0mm x 15.0mm / 0.6" x 0.6" x 0.6"
Product Weight: 3.6g/0.1oz
Engineered in NYC Adafruit ®
