Kintaro Custom Aluminum Raspberry Pi Cooling Heatsink – Single Board Computer Kit includes Heat Sink, Thermal Compound Paste and Screws - (Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+)

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DESIGNED FOR PI 3B+: The Kintaro custom heatsink cooling system is one of our accessories designed to be compatible with the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ single board computer.
POWERFUL COOLING: This large, high performance aluminum heatsink is designed to keep your Raspberry Pi cooler under all circumstances including overlocking and playing RetroPie games on an overclocked Pi.
HIGH PERFORMANCE: Built to perform absolutely silently, the heatsink will keep your Raspberry Pi from reaching throttling temperatures and thus prevents performance loss (based on stress test).
PASSIVE COOLING: Reducing the temperature of your Raspberry Pi, the heat sink passive cooler is an effective cooling system which completely eliminates the need for noisy fans to keep your Pi cooler.
EASY TO INSTAL: The Raspberry Pi Heat Sink is supplied with thermal compound and screws for straightforward, secure placement to ensure you get the most out of your cooling accessories.

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7.11 x 5.84 x 1.78 cm; 9 Grams

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1 July 2018

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Keep Your Raspberry Pi Cooler

Is the temperature of your Raspberry Pi showing some big numbers? Protecting your Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ from overheating is essential when you’re overclocking, spending hours retro gaming with RetroPie, or for any other resource hungry projects which can really test your single board computer.

This custom anodized black aluminum heatsink is here to help keep your Raspberry Pi cooler at all times. Reducing the temperature of your CPU and GPU will help your Raspberry Pi 3 model B+ perform at its peak, as well as reducing the risk of frustrating hardware failure and temperature based throttling.

Effective, Silent and Easy To Add

The large Raspberry Pi heatsink is designed for maximum heat dissipation and is a great silent passive cooling solution, completely eliminating the need for noisy fans to keep your Pi cooler.

With the help of just a few drops of thermal compound you can keep your Raspberry Pi model 3B+ from overheating with just a few simple steps. Just use the thermally conductive paste and screws in this kit to secure the heat sink in position and you'll be good to go.

Click "Add to Cart" now for a cooler Raspberry Pi!

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CJ Davies

but it would've been nice to see something like that (or maybe some plastic ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 July 2018

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Bought this hoping it would fit underneath a HyperPixel display from Pimoroni (it does!). Knocked off one star as the mounting hardware of four self tapping bolts/screws is presumably supposed to pass through the heatsink, through the Pi & then bite into a plastic case - which means that as it's supplied in the box you can't actually mount it to a bare Pi without a case. Luckily I had some M2 bolts & nuts that worked, but it would've been nice to see something like that (or maybe some plastic push clips?) included in the box.

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Works in theory!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 November 2018

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One Stars ⭐️ item works well, but only because I found some screws that would screw into the heatsink, As the screws supplied pass though both the board and the heatsink and screws into Sweat FA!! Meaning nothing is holding down the heatsink to actually make good contact! I cut the Pi 3b+ case housing so the heatsink would fit the case, it keeps temps between 45c-47c this is the temp after 4days of it being on running simple tasks so much better than without and still better than the smaller one due to the increased surface area for heat dissapation. PS don’t use the stupid thermal paste that it comes with, get some thermalgizzle non conductive, than the cheap stuff in the box and some screws so you can actually mount it to the pi board.

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PingIsLife

VERY good thermally, but limiting when it comes to mounting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 December 2018

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Kintaro Custom Aluminum Raspberry Pi Cooling Heatsink.

i have been testing various heatsinks for pi's, as i run "a few" in a 24x7 environment at 100% loading (so temps do matter for me), and it does a REALLY good job at keeping the temps down - due to the simple amount of overall mass the heatsink has (it has the greatest surface area of all i have tested). i have tested many sinks: 11x11x5, 14x14x14 and even 20x20x10 and this trumps them all by atleast 8C if the case u use allows you to mount this thing then i would highly recommend it. it touches/sits on both the cpu and the usb chip so both benefit from the sink in place. cannot comment on the thermal paste, but the fact some is given is a positive. when mounted does not obstruct any of the connectors, so functionality of any of the interfaces whist in using this heatsink is not impaired.

so, why only 3 stars? my issue is the mounting mechanism. because i use the mounting holes to connect my pi's together with M2.5 nylon stand-offs i'm unable to use this heatsink. if a variant of this heatsink were to be developed where the mounting holes were not used/obstructed, and thermal tape supplied instead, this would be (for me) a 5 star product.

bought purely for testing, i guess i'm gonna have to dremel the mounts off and use some thermal tape (for my use-case)

overall: great product, does it's job good without interference of any connectors, needs a little redesign on the mounting used then would be absolutely perfect.

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Jonathan Purcell

Decent Cooling

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 January 2019

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I bought the Kuma 9000 SNES case which came with the old Pi 3B heatsink, so I bought this and had to modify two screw in posts for the heatsink to fit inside the Kuma case. Also, I had to buy some M1.5 x 10mm Stainless Steel Phillips Pan Round Head Self Tapping Screws because of the case mode I had to make, but it is now good to go (well worth the effort)

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Lee D.

Excellent heatsink

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 November 2018

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Best heatsink I have used. Can be screwed down really securely and can which also means thermal paste can be used as tape isn't needed to hold it in place. I have a gorilla pi case with a fan blowing on to it and temperatures are excellent. Currently running my Raspberry pi 3b at 1.45ghz

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Christopher Shaw

Plenty of mass and fits the pi board well

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 January 2019

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Fits the pi well, only downside is that it didn’t fit inside my case due to internal mouldings but the case can be fairly easily modified. It’s massive compared to other options so has plenty of heat capacity and I’ve haven’t had any overheating/stability issues when overclocked and running N64 games.

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Good heatsink

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 February 2019

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Would be easy to fit if the supplies screw where the same size as the holes int he heatsink, I had to drill it out!

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mrded

Really good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 October 2018

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The best passive cooling you can find

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Walter C.

Non compatibile con RPi3B v1.2

Reviewed in Italy on 12 December 2018

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Il dissipatore non è compatibile con Raspberry Pi 3 modello B versione 1.2 per alcuni motivi tra i quali:

- U2 è in una posizione diversa e i condensatori SMD C98 e C99 impediscono il posizionamento corretto per il fissaggio
- Nel RPi 3B+ il Broadcom ha un IHS che dovrebbe fare contatto direttamente con il dissipatore. Il V1.2 non ce l'ha ed è necessaria una piastrina di rame spessa tra 1 e 1,15mm con pasta conduttiva sopra e sotto

Possibili soluzioni:

- rimuovere la piastrina di contatto con U2 e spostarla o sostituirla con piastrina di rame
- usare una piastrina di rame per contatto tra U1 e il dissipatore
- usare spessori di gomma e viti più lunghe per il fissaggio al RPi

Sempre stando attenti a non causare corto circuiti tra i contatti dei componenti.

In parte colpa mia che non ho chiesto, né ho misurato le distanze relative tra gli integrati e quelle del dissipatore.

Do 5 stelle sulla fiducia che sia 100% compatibile con RPi3B+, inoltre il venditore ha mandato un pacchettino veramente ben fatto e tutto sommato il prodotto mi sembra obiettivamente buono, anche se il prezzo mi sembra un po' troppo elevato, 10 euro per un pezzo di metallo, avrei capito benissimo se fosse stato rame, ma questo mi sembra essere semplice alluminio trattato per renderlo non conduttivo.

Provatelo SOLO se avete un Raspberry Pi 3 model B PLUS. NON È COMPATIBILE CON RASPBERRY PI 3 MODEL B V1.2.

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Walter C.

Quello che mi serviva

Reviewed in Italy on 18 January 2019

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Questo è perfetto per il 3 modello B. Con un po' di pasta termoconduttiva (inclusa nel pacchetto che vi arriva a casa) permette di mantenere sotto controllo la temperatura del Broadcom. Scordatevi quei microscopici dissipatori in alluminio perché non fanno quasi niente.

Aderisce sia al Broadcom che al controller USB; in dotazione avrete, oltre al dissipatore, la bustina di pasta termoconduttiva (ne basta pochissima, una goccia del diametro di 2mm circa), viti da 2,5mm per plastica e un bigliettino di ringraziamento (molto molto carino). Se proprio devo trovare un difetto, il dissipatore non può ancorarsi al Raspberry da solo e devono essere avvitati entrambi ad una base (come un piccolo case apposito). Se i ragazzi di Kintaro avessero previsto un sistema di aggancio "screwless" alla board del Raspberry sarebbe stato perfetto, poiché così com'è il dissipatore aderisce al Raspberry solo grazie alla forza collante della pasta termoconduttiva.

In definitiva, funzionalmente molto molto valido, ma il design da rivedere leggermente.

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Roberto

Ottimo dissipatore

Reviewed in Italy on 10 January 2019

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Questo è sicuramente il migliore dissipatore per Raspberry che abbia provato. Visto quanto scaldano i Raspberry più recenti, è certamente un accessorio da consigliare. Il dissipatore occupa tutta la parte della scheda Raspberry libera da connettori e 'alettatura è di discreta altezza, quindi garantisce un buon raffreddamento. La parte che appoggia sul Raspberry presenta due rigonfiamenti sui chip da raffreddare (CPU e Ethernet controller, se non erro).
Nella confezione è presenta una bustina di pasta termica, in quantità sovrabbondante per un l'uso (attenzione a non usarne troppa, però).
Unico difetto degno di rilievo: le quattro vitine autofilettanti presenti nella confezione sono piccole per i fori presenti sul Raspberry e il mo case non ha degli alloggiamenti in cui avvitarle, quindi ho rimediato con quattro piccole viti M2, o M2.5, non ricordo bene (quelle che avevo in casa).
Attenzione che quello per Raspberry Pi 3B+ è diverso da quello per gli altri Raspberry Pi 2B, 2B+, 3B.

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Sierra-Sierra

Passgenau und zum Glück ohne Klebepads

Reviewed in Germany on 9 January 2019

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Bisher hatte ich immer einzelne kleine Kühlkörper mit Klebepads im Einsatz.
Richtig glücklich wurde ich nicht, aber es war okay.
Nun, mit Anschaffung des Raspberry Pi 3 b+ habe ich mir diesen Kühlkörper gekauft.
Positiv finde ich, das hier "keine" Klebepads verwendet werden, sondern Wärmeleitpaste.
Bisher kann ich keine negativen Punkte feststellen. Der Pi befindet sich in einem eher geschlossenem Raum (Bartop).

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Andrea

Non compatibile con Raspberry Pi 3 B+

Reviewed in Italy on 16 February 2019

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Anche se il titolo e la descrizione specificano che il dissipatore è compatibile, esso non lo è.
Quindi, se come me avete un Raspberry Pi 3 B+ 2017, questo dissipatore non è per voi.

Comunque sia, ho tagliato la parte del dissipatore che non mi consentiva l'alloggiamento e adesso posso dire che la dissipazione è ottima. Ho guadagnato circa 13 gradi in meno.
Sta bene anche con il case originale Raspberry, senza il coperchio.

Quindi TOP per la dissipazione, FLOP per la descrizione.

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Massimiliano Ciaccia

Foto del modello Raspberry 3B ma articolo per 3B+

Reviewed in Italy on 14 February 2019

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C'è scritto che è per RB 3B+ ma nelle note viene indicato incompatibile per RB 3B+ ma per il 3B e la foto corrisponde all'hardware del Taspberry 3B (non 3B+). Nonostante questo ne ho comprati due e mi sono arrivati non quelli indicati dalla foto ma quelli per il solo RB 3B+ che, non adattabili al 3B, ho dovuto rendere con il rimborso.

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joan anton rovira

No es compatible con B+

Reviewed in Spain on 5 March 2019

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Aunque la descripción dice que es compatible con B+ lo cierto es que no es así, choca con una parte que se compon dec4 pines

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Patrice.

Plus de surchauffe !

Reviewed in France on 1 January 2019

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Avec ce radiateur, mon Pi 3 ne craint plus la surchauffe.
Il s'adapte parfaitement.

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Raspberry

FUIR SE PRODUIT !!!!!!!!

Reviewed in France on 26 March 2019

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J'ai reçu le dissipateur déjà utilisé, comme vous pouvez le voir sur les photos, il y a des rayures sur le dessous et une patte est abîmé . J'ai donc essayé de le monter et la nouvelle surprise . la fixation déjà abîmé c'est casé .
Je vous déconseille se produit.

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Gary Greene

Great Heatsink - but probably more than what you need

Reviewed in the United States on 19 September 2018

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I like this heatsink. Don't get me wrong. I really like the way it looks, and it seems as if the heat dissipation, even in non-direct airflow situations (like a closed case with no fan) is pretty good. With that being said - it's using the dissipation method to spread the heat out. Maybe instead of heatsink think of it as heat spreader in this particular application. I build a lot of retropi's and I have used this in at least one. In this case, because of the bulk of the heatsync, I couldn't kit it with a fan. It wasn't a total loss though, since this spreads heat more than radiating it away into the air. I haven't had an overheating while using it, other than when I attempted to overclock. So if you're running in a closed case with little to no air movement or ventilation, I advise against overclocking with this heatsink (or any heatsink for that matter.) Otherwise, the build quality is great - solid, substantial, and the cooling pads line up nicely with the chips. This is a great product for what itis, and if you added some active cooling (like a fan for example) I think you could get a lot more bang out of it for your buck. I recommend it.

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H B

Still hits thermal throttle, but a lot better!

Reviewed in the United States on 26 August 2019

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While thermal throttle (80c) happens pretty quickly on the pi 3B+ without a heat sink, a lot of people don't know there's a soft throttle going on between 60-70c as well, lowering CPU speeds to 1,2Ghz. With a small heat sink, the Pi3B+ hits 60C in no time, but usually can take up to about 1 minute before hitting 70C in a case (doing a CPU stress test).

This heat sink, still hits 70C thermal throttle inside a case, but the time to get there is significantly longer.
About 3 to 4 minutes, to be precise doing a CPU stress test,
About the same results with glxgears.
Which makes this sink your go-to for normal file transfers, and program loads.
Not suited for gamers or prolonged stress test situations inside a case.

The good thing is, my case has a 3.5" LCD screen built in, and the heat sink fits in just perfectly fine inside with the LCD!
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Out of a case, with a screen hat, the temperature seems to level off at around 67C vertical, and 70C horizontal (screen facing up) in about 6 minutes in a 77F room, which will definitely be performing worse than with no hat.

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TinyZombie

This is cool (really)

Reviewed in the United States on 1 April 2019

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This is the best heatsink for the Raspberry Pi 3B computer. It actually works better than metal heatsink cases like the Flirc. Why? Because it's a mounted heatsink and you can use proper thermal compound, instead of the thick pad needed to fill the gap in a case. Don't get me wrong, the Flirc is great, but this is better.

Speaking of cases, this will not fit in some cases. Cases with posts on the top cover that screw into the bottom may not work (the cover will be too high unless you shorten the posts). Cases with posts the board snaps onto may not work either (the heatsink mounts using screws in those holes). If you want to put this inside a case, check the fit carefully.

If you want your Pi3 covered and protected, I highly recommend the Flirc Gen2 case. It works well and looks awesome. If you want your Pi 3B more open and accessible, this Kintaro heatsink is what you want.

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TheCyberQuake

Greatly lowered temps

Reviewed in the United States on 25 June 2018

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One of the best passive heatsinks you can get. The fact that it uses actual thermal compound rather than the thermal tape other heatsinks use also makes a bigger difference than you think.
The only downside is it won't fit most cases, and anyone wanting to use it in something like a nespi need to look elsewhere. Thermal compound is sticky enough where it may be fine if you hack off the parts where the screws go. Though if you do that you may want a thicker stickier paste like IC diamond. Might try to give that a go later to see.
Works even better if you place a small fan near it

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Sergio

Great heatsink for the Pi3

Reviewed in the United States on 9 August 2018

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This is a great heatsink for the pi3. It is large and comes with thermal paste. It fits great and clears all the components on the pi3.

However, the screws that came with the kit did not work for my enclosure. I had to buy m2 bolts with nuts to fasten the heatsink to the pi3 PCB. Then i modified the enclosure with the dremel tool to allow the heatsink to clear the edges.

I did notice about a 10 degree C difference in CPU temperature drop. When I purchased the heatsink, I was aware of the required modifications but i was worth it!

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moto

Impressive Cost-Effective RPi3 Heat Sink

Reviewed in the United States on 30 April 2019

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This heat sink works great. The quality and fit and finish are impressive. And you cant beat it at this price considering it includes 4 mounting screws and thermal paste.
I have a RPi3 (older non plus) housed in an adafruit case. I drilled a few holes for the mounting screws, and it fit perfectly.
Temps are now under control. I was getting over heating issues when running a plex server, but this cooler fixed that for me.

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