Water Cooled Raspberry Pi 4 - Totally Unnecessary, But Pretty Awesome
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ย. 2020
- I wanted to see if I could use a PC water cooling kit to water cool a Raspberry Pi 4. I've seen a couple of people try this on older model Pi's using reducers and adapters to get to a small cooling block onto the CPU, but I'm going to try and make an adapter to fit a larger, 30x30mm cooling block onto a Pi 4. I'll also try to overclock the Pi to 2.0GHz and see how well the water cooling system does to keep it cool.
Just to be clear; this is totally unnecessary and is more of a let's do it because we can, not because we should type of project.
Here's a link to my write-up on the build and the test - www.the-diy-life.com/water-co...
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When your cooler uses more power than your computer lol
@@FleetNine ok
Clearly, the solution then is to add more Pis
Ok but the cooler can't run crysis.
Next up, liquid nitrogen overclocking a raspberry pi.
Already done th-cam.com/video/RbzKM5XxlOA/w-d-xo.html
Raspberry Pi 4 8GB model can be overclocked to 2350MHz on air with CooliPi - passively. You can add a fan though. Details on project support pages.
XD
@@WaterLex KKKKK
I think I've been watching too many TH-cam tech channels, I got unreasonably excited when he brought out the thermal paste
Warning: "Your unit is too cold. Shutting down."
I've once put one in a freezer using an external battery and remote desktop and it got minus temps lol.
@@love_kuroko haha, nice. I like. Did it still work? unstable?
AFAIK it won't shut down, we've reached lower than -88deg Celsius using liquid Nitrogen cooling and it worked. th-cam.com/video/RbzKM5XxlOA/w-d-xo.html
It woudn't measure lower than this.
I don't have watercool. I am using ICE Tower and in a cool day I am running at 25celsius overclocked to 2GHz... I probably can push this to 2.2... searched for a better cooling solution which is water cooling is on the list and that's why I am here..
I very professional designed DIY project. The camera and editing was also excellent.
I wonder if a small LCD Display showing the temperature could be incorporated into this design?
I would like to see more projects like this one. Thanks for sharing your project with us today.
Thanks for the tip and great feedback! It would be quite easy to put the OLED display which I used for the Desktop Pi Case onto this stand as well.
th-cam.com/video/RbzKM5XxlOA/w-d-xo.html
Camera and editing is the worst you've seen, ever - we don't have the equipment and time to fiddle with things. It's a bit rough.
@@MichaelKlementsBuild a version with Arduino Giga Display and make it run stand alone with the touchpad and other much funny stuff! :D Great PROJECT! I love it! Einfach nur Genial gemacht!
Excellent work, it's a work of art! I love it!
When you get all the attachments for the starter weapon
a glock with a x12 thermal vision scope, a drum magazine and a sniper bipod
Totally unnecessary, but pretty awesome. I love it ! Excellent work.
je n'avais jamais vu de decoupe de plexi au laser
c'est génial ! bravo trop propre !
SMALL TECH LOOKING AWESOME IS WHAT IS THE MOST FUN. GOOD CONVERSATION FOR KIDS AND VISITORS!
Was looking for this last night!
This is like using a dump truck to carry home your groceries. Hahaha. Love it!
This is the most awesome cooling system for Raspberry Pi.
I did something very similar last year, when the Pi 4 was released - with all the talk of it being a "desktop computer" I decided to have fun with the concept. You have used very similar parts to my build, except I mounted my Pi in a cheap clear sided Mini ITX computer "Gaming" case (with RGB fans and UV LEDs + reactive water coolant) that was an Amazon return item - only £17 ;)
In my case I used a water block that had the fittings on the top, and I used an old Pentium 3 heatsink spring clip to apply a constant pressure on the block, but the general mounting arrangement is similar to yours.
I do like the clean look your build has though, very nice! :)
That sounds awesome. Would have loved to see a picture of the completed project! Do you still have it running?
i'd also love to see pics of this build, sounds cool
Looks awesome, great job.
good job with the quality of you video i honestly thought you were a 200k to 250k subs. so very nice job
Thanks for the great feedback! Hopefully one day.
Obviously over-the-top silly fun, but I bet some of those people building clusters of Pi4 units could actually benefit from liquid cooling by chaining all the CPUs together to one rad.
was thinking the same, but the last pi in the loop would have the least cooling (if at all), split the single into x pipes and cool all of them at the same time ?
I've been trying to decide how to best do this for my cluster. My worry with the splitter is balancing the flow rate through all of the heat sinks. If one or two have more resistance than the others, then most (if not all in extreme cases) of the liquid will flow through the other channels.
Both seems to have one disadvantage. Using a single channel, the last one would have the least cooling and using splitters leaves a risk that one might not be cooled at all.
I think the best solution is to make sure that the flow rate is high enough that the increase in temperature between the first and last Pi in the chain is not significant.
Yeah, fewer points of failure is more important than having even temps in my view. As long as a simple loop through all the CPUs can avoid throttling, you've succeeded.
Very nice project! GJ!
Nice and pretty cool. I did water cooling and got 8 degrees on over clock
I want this. Looks pretty cool
this is an absurd ammount of overkill cooling lol
The spacer he put is enough but still cool
Is more absurd than absurd absurdest in English? th-cam.com/video/RbzKM5XxlOA/w-d-xo.html
At stock max load temp is 80+ but 35 range max load is overkill 😂🤣🤣😂
Meh... I am using an ICE Tower and I overclocking my pi to 2GHz... in a cold day I am running at 25-28celsius... but in a hot day I think it can go up to 40celsius...
Super cool, no pun intended, but that's crazy setup for Pi.
I don't know if it was intentional, but when you swapped the copper CPU block, which was included in the water cooling kit, you undid the seller's mistake. They paired an aluminum radiator with a copper block, nurturing corrosion buildup, causing the radiator to get messed up over time, but the use of aluminum blocks saved you from that.
I didn't really give that any thought on this project because the copper block was just way too big for the Pi anyway, but I am aware that you should stick to all aluminium or all copper.
Nice video!
He has done it
*The Meme is Real*
you are a master in this !! .. RESPECT !
Thanks for the great feedback!
I looked his up as a joke, ended up being impressed
looks really interesting
This is awesome! Wow...
This is really nice. Who said the Raspberry Pi can't be sexy too
Nice, I'm use an GeeekPi ICE Tower with a 40mm Noctua fan and gets same temperature with a overclock to 2.0Ghz
This is gorgeous, do you have anyplace that you have posted the design files for the laser cutting parts?
I haven’t put them up anywhere, I just didn’t think anyone would be interested in building this contraption 😂
I’ll put them up on the blog post.
@@MichaelKlements You Are the man. You said in the beginning of the video......Because we can LOL
Hey @@MichaelKlements will you let me know when you get this updated. I am eager to start building this. Thanks man
I've put the files up for download under the image of the stand in Inkscape - www.the-diy-life.com/water-cooled-raspberry-pi-4-totally-unnecessary-but-pretty-awesome/
Good luck with your build!
insane cooling
awesome!
35 - 37. I will watch your other cooling video for comparison myself. Lol. Nice engraver!
when the rad is bigger than the computer
it would have been interesting the maximum overclock you could reach... maybe even more than 2.0 GHz...
They don't go much higher than 2ghz. I think the max someone has managed is about 2.3ghz. If you think about it, that's more than a 50% overclock. Which is a pretty insane increase. They aren't really designed to go super high. Not only does the CPU design restrict it, but the power draw does as well. Even if it could go higher, you could get enough power to it AND you could keep it cool enough, it would become extremely unstable and just fail constantly. And probably just get fried.
I imagine he's going to hit a voltage wall or something instead of a thermal one.
@@honestgoat Mine goes to 2350/750/550 MHz. But only 8GB version can go as high, because it has a 50% faster frequency of its onboard switcher (PMIC). The 1/2/4GB models tend to reboot at all core load as low as 1860MHz. All core load means also GIMP blur filers. Pi400 and CM4 have inherited this upgraded PMIC layout. An I mean on air, no using LN2 as we did here th-cam.com/video/RbzKM5XxlOA/w-d-xo.html
The new ULTIMATE 7ghz GAMINFG pc 🤔😂🤣😂😂
This is over kill but it looks amazing!
That fan, i have a 5 pack of those and they are really quiet.
I absolutely love this, it looks a bit chunky though but what can you do? I mean you made a water cooling system for a freaking raspberry pi 4.
You could put the pi in an actual pc case and put this in it then make it look like a ligit pc
すごくカッコいい！不要というけれどこういうのはロマンだよね
This is exactly what I am looking for. Excellent work. Could a small thermometer be added.
It's ridiculous and I love it.
Its look soo cool
Unnecessary but damn cool.
Omg. Soo gonna do this just cause I can. Thank you for this. Great write up and movie and all! I found an svg to stl converter but I am using a 3d printer. Any way you can include files that is not a cut out but rather the whole item to be printed? I would gladly add it to the free 3d printing community website and give you credit for the design completely.
Thank you! I'll have a look at designing the bracket to be 3D printed rather than laser cut, it shouldn't be too complicated to adapt.
If you do, I too would be very interested in this! Great video, man. Much appreciated content. :D.
Merry Christmas!
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You are genius 😋
I would love one on these! :) so cool a project! Thanks! Not that I have the cool tech to make one though.
I modded a heatsink with a 40mm fan can get similar temps while over clocked to 2ghz.
Wait are those shits overclockable?
Cool.
Ah yes my so necessary fix of techporn
If you use a copper water block instead of an aluminum one and apply liquid metal as a thermal compound, the results will surprise you.
An incredible video and set up
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll have a look at trying this with a copper block
@@MichaelKlements Don't use liquid metal. if it oozes out it is electrically conductive and can short circuit stuff, but yes a more thermally conductive block and diamond embedded higher K thermal value paste would or might help
It is very cool. But I had my pi running 32 degrees on average with just a regular fan. so I think yours can do some crazy overclock without any problem
The Pi's overclocking is usually limited by CPU voltage as the circuitry can't get enough current to the CPU to support much higher clock speeds. But yes there's definitely a lot more thermal capacity for overclocking!
I wonder if it's possible to delid the IHS like many do with intel processors, and get direct die contact, the thermal resistance there is probably at least part of that spike you are seeing.
I’ve seen one comment say that they had done this, I guess the inept way to find out is to sacrifice a Pi! It would be interesting to try out either way.
That's cool
I guess you can rotate the cooling block to avoid the display port
Sorry to ask, but how did you power the fan and the pump? Really nice video btw :D
Thank you, will hopefully have a verison 2 out soon! They're powered through a separate 12V adaptor
only 2GHz? :(
For some reason my Pi wouldn’t boot up at 2.147Ghz, I presume because of under-voltage. I’ve ordered another power supply to try out.
Can you try hard (Petg) tubing on it? It’ll look so much nicer and cleaner
Waiting for the cryo cooling next #CryoPi
Bonkers!! Love it LUL
I think de only reason for the temperature rising is bad connection between silicium chip and water head.
The fan is not needed at all and i dont even think the radiator is needed, maybe change the tubing to copper pipes, that together with the reservoir should be enough cooling.
If it was Res only, the water would slowly heat up to maybe 30 degrees or so, but it would take 1 day for it to happen.
How did you hook the power connectors for your fan and pump to you 12volt? Just cut the pin connectors off and add the appropriate 2.5 plug?
I actually just made a small adaptor from the 2.5 plug to the 12V connector, but cutting off the connector would work just as well.
Would probably still work fantastic without the fan. Just ambient cooling with the water and radiator.
The smaller gaps in the heatsink, the more it's dependent on forced airflow. That's why for example Ice Tower gets disproportionally worse with a fan off compared to CooliPi (th-cam.com/video/RbzKM5XxlOA/w-d-xo.html)
Thank you 2020. Thank you covid. people stay at home are so board we now have cool this to look in to.
people have always done this stuff. giving credit to covid is just giving legitimacy to the hoax
Very impressive, but with a $25 off the shelf ice tower and 2 GHz overclock, I don't go past 39 C anyway
I want that too
is there another 120mm cooling kit like this one because theres a 120mm one but it takes 2 months to get
Hello, excellent project.
Would you tell me what kind of laser cutter do you use?
What brand is it?
Where can I find one?
Hi Gabriel,
I've got a K40 laser cutter. They're a common and reasonably cheap Chinese laser cutter which are commonly available online. The best place to buy one is probably on EBay. They're not all made by a particular company, they're just a generic product and there are loads of spares and upgrades available online too.
@@MichaelKlements Thank you very much. Have a nice day.
Plot twist water cooling block is more costly than rasberry pi
wont be surprised seeing a liquid cooled g100
cool ! I have also made a video about it but your version is much better assembled (Like)
I've had my pi overclocked beyond 2.147 with the ice tower, this might overkill for just 2Ghz
sadly he did not menton ambient temps, in some hot countries this might be useful for overclockers.
Sorry, I definitely should have mentioned the ambient temperature. The room was around 25C during this test, pretty warm to start with.
Yeah I have my PI4 with the ice tower OCed to 2.15Ghz all day long. I dont think the temps go above 40c at full load
@@chucksanders7131 i run 2.3GHz and the HIGHEST i've seen my temps go is 71C under sustained full load for 5h, with a passively cooled full alu case (akasa maze pro), funnily enough pointing a desk fan at it cooled it down to 49C in ~10 minutes
@@chucksanders7131 link where i can buy ice tower ?
You should have used copper for the spacer instead of aluminium. Copper is a so much better heat conductor than aluminium.
That didn't really matter as the temps didn't go any higher than around 34 degrees which is very cold. I don't think copper is necessary.
@@cryptoAlgo You may be right in principle, but I'm a little bit geeky 🤓
@@e1woqf no...unnecessary waste. If could oc higher then it might be considerably nice addittion.
@@e1woqf
Geeky?
A real geek would have pointed out that a Peltier combined with an Environ hat to prevent condensation would be the way to go...
@@daves.8869 Ermm...No. One of the great advantages of all Pis is their very moderate energy consumption. 🤓 Using copper instead of aluminium comes at no additional energy costs.
Of course we could argue about whether a water cooling is necessary at all. 😀
That's awesome. is 2ghz the highest a Pi4 can go with this sick of a cooler?
No, the Pi should be able to be overclocked higher than this as the temperature is still well under the limit of 80 degrees. Mine just wouldn’t boot up over 2.0 GHz, so I’ll need to try on a better power supply and possibly a different Pi.
@@MichaelKlements Try the 8gb version. I don’t know if more RAM would be better but you could try.
Hey, which PSU did u use for the Pi? Because I have connected only my Keyboard and a Mouse + the Icetower and the Raspi closes apps while running Win10 - I think it gets not enough electricity....I´m using the original Pi 4 power connection... :)
I usually use the original Pi 4 power supply. It seems to supply more than enough for the Pi and any basic peripherals. I think you’d only need a larger supply of you included a 2.5” HDD or a power hungry USB device.
Holy Shit Respect!
overclock it to 3 ghz. can you use dry ice by passing the water tubing through a cooler containing dry ice. cause that would defenately keep things cool. could a discreen gpu be added to one of these>?
Or liquid helium
What CNC machine r u using?
Can you release the laser cutting files? I love you case design. Gladly pay for em.
Please send me a mail through my blog contact form and I'll email them through to you - www.the-diy-life.com/contact-us/
@@MichaelKlements Thank you! SUCH AN AMAZING BUILD!
@@MichaelKlements AWESOME! DONE AND DONE!
What did you use for the stress test on the RPi?
I used CPU Burn
It should be possible to use the power supply of the pi for the pump and the fan. This makes the fan quieter and the pump too, the disadvantage is that this reduces the throughput speed and the power of the fan.
Yes I actually did try this and it does work. The pump will turn over from around 4.5V but with very low output. The fan actually turns from 3V and is probably enough for the cooling requirement (not much required), the only issue is that the light on the fan doesn’t come on until 10.8V. Not exactly a performance issue but it just doesn’t look as good.
@@MichaelKlements So how is it powered in the video? I assume you dont have a 12v battery under your desk?
What software and setup are you using for the acrylic?
I use Inkscape for the 2D design and K40 whisperer to control the laser cutter.
i am about to ask the same question, thank you for answering.
Okay. I know this would make it more kill but... yeah...
Use some copper for the heatsink on the cpu + liquid metal. & maybe delid the cpu???
This is basically pointless except for maybe extreme overclocking the RP4. I plan to try this CPU block design, instead I'm gonna try to run it with coolant chilled to -78c with some dry ice. This would allow the PI to be easily overclocked to 3ghz+ and take the records. It would even be possible to run LN2 directly from a tank through the CPU block. LOL ROBOCLOCKER for raspberry pi.
Completely unnecessary.
BUT TOTALLY COOL
Where can I buy that laser cutter for acrylic?
You can buy them on Amazon or EBay, search for a K40 laser cutter
ya, unnecesarry but its amazing lol
This is so ridiculous i want to do it too.
I immersed my pi4 overclocked to 2147 in mineral oil in a betta fish tank. It was $5 for the tank and $23 for the oil. I tri-boot raspbian, batocera and monkajaro. The temps are lower than this. Unbelievably nice job though!
What matters is temperature delta between ambient temp and SoC temp. This guy has pretty high ambient temperature, so if you test it in a different temperature, top temperatures are lower. If you cool it in Liquid Nitrogen, you get lower temperatures but the delta is what matters. th-cam.com/video/RbzKM5XxlOA/w-d-xo.html
What display are you using with that Pi?!
It’s just a portable desktop monitor I got off of Amazon
Hey where i can buy this kit? etsy is out of stock
They’re out of stock as of a few days ago. I’ll be making more though.
Could have used a TEC for a spacer and extra cooling. 😁
Refrigerator Pi 😂
Or LN2 th-cam.com/video/RbzKM5XxlOA/w-d-xo.html
Water cooling might benefit a heavily-stressed Pi cluster more, but this is still cool.
Yeah that was the original intention behind creating this. It was a trial run for my water-cooled Pi cluster.
What's program do you use to do that's
The design is done in Inkscape
Sub Zero Raspberry Pi will be awesome
Does this add hw transcode capability to the pi? /s
This doesn't add any hardware abilities to the Pi
what software do you used to design those parts?
They’re designed in Inkscape
Hey man I love I’m just putting it out there I’m a water cooling nut
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Or you could make it one word 🤔
I hope that this is a jo ke
@@adizivojevic8635 It’s not
@@adizivojevic8635 he seriously did this 🤯