GeeekPi Metal Case with Fan for Raspberry Pi 4, Pi 4B Case with Low-Profile CPU Cooler and RGB Cooling Fan (Silver)

This is a well-put-together little case and a very solid cooler. The instructions are kind of confusing, here are some clarifications:1. Don't use any of the hardware in the ICE tower box except for the brackets themselves and the thermal tape.2. Use the screws in the small bag in the outer box instead. On the "port" side of the Pi, use the two 2.5mm silver screws through the bottom of the board to mount the heat sink bracket. Do this before you put the board in the enclosue. On the GPIO side, put the two longer black screws through the *top* of the heat sink bracket and screw them into the standoffs at the bottom of the case.3. Put the GPIO extender on before you put the board in the case. This makes it a tight fit, but if you angle the Pi down so that the pins go through the hole in the side of the case, you can then wiggle the port side of the Pi down. You will probably need to apply light pressure to the top of the port side case to make a little clearance, but it is mostly a wiggling exercise.4. Be sure to insert the (USB/HDMI/etc.) ports *into* the holes in the case, they support the port side of the board.I'm attaching some 15-minute CPU stress test results. Long story short, the cooler works very well, keeping the temperature around 37C. Putting the top cover on the case raises this very slightly, less than 1C.

There are a lot of poor reviews on this regarding how difficult it is to put together. It can be confusing out of box but is actually very simple! Id recommend to anyone buying to watch a youtube video on how to assemble (ive found at least 2, they do exist). And as for the tightness of the screws, this is is because the case is aluminum, if you unscrew one, tension will move. Same with putting back together. i would recommend loosening all the screws. before fully removing any of them during disassembly, And then starting all of them before tightening any one down when putting back together. Makes things much easier. The screws are very tight out of box, it would be best to use a larger screwdriver, but the one included works fine. Just go slow and steady to prevent stripping! The only downside i would have to say is the SD card access slot is pretty much useless. Cant really take the SD card out unless you have tweezers or something. which is fine with me because i never change mine out. But do keep that in mind as well. If you're going to be swapping cards often, youll have to take out all 8 screws every time. Other than that, this case is perfect! It keeps my pi much much cooler than before and i have the gpu overclocked to 750 mhz, cpu at 2.147 ghz and i havent seen it pass 45° C yet!

The seller selling this isnt the maker 52pi, so I'm not gonna come down too hard on them. This review is the buyer looking to get this case.Pros:-Comes with a spare fan-Has extra screws, risers, washers.-Has extra thermal tape-Lots of vents for air flow-Small form factor can fit in pocket-Cheap if you buy it from China in bulk on aliexpressCons:-Cheap feeling fan/heat sink-Thermal tapes smaller than raspberry pi processor, I think slightly bigger would be better.-Takes 8 screws to screw the lid on, I think this is a bit excessive. Especially if you need to get inside and fix something. Also all the screws come prescrewed so to even open the empty case you need to unscrew, and some of them were on really strong, so the included screwdriver was not strong enough to remove.-There is two sets of instructions, 1 to put the fan together and attach to the acrylic board. And a 2nd set of instructions to mount the pi to the case. This caused me confusion because you need to reverse the screws for the case vs the acrylic board.-The instruction pictures are pretty small to see the direction of the screws, etc. But overall wasnt hard to figure out.-Assembly can be tricky, but not too hard. The case has 2 mounting holes for the riser screws , when there are a total of 4. I think this is kind of a poor design for this reason, but I guess 4 isnt needed once the the pi is fitted. This part is somewhat tricky, but you basically just need to put the pi in the case without the fan, and add the fan later. Connecting the fan cables can be tricky so you might want to do that before sliding the fan on.My biggest complaint about the case is the 8 screws it takes to put the case together. I think if they made it just fit together naturally that would of been a lot smarter like the Argon One M.2 case which I also have.Would I recommend this case? The case is cool it works, it would be a lot cooler if it was engineered better maybe had integrated NVME capabilities so I didnt need to buy a external. Ill have to see how long the fan last. The heat sink and fan are a bit cheap feeling, so we will see. The fan changes different colors so thats pretty cool.