This friction-fit header makes it very easy to install on the Raspberry Pi and if needing to remove later. The Fan SHIM is a ~$10 fan that connects to the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi for power and aligning it with the Broadcom SoC. The Raspberry Pi Foundation kindly sent over the Fan SHIM and FLIRC for our benchmarking at Phoronix. We've seen just how prone the Raspberry Pi 4 is to down-clocking and where as previous Raspberry Pi boards did fine with a small aluminum heatsink attached, for any serious work you will need a more capable cooler if you care about the performance. In this article we're looking at the Raspberry Pi 4 performance with a Fan SHIM as an active fan designed for running on the Raspberry Pi off the GPIO pins as well as the FLIRC as a metal case that passively cools the device. However, if you will be enduring the Raspberry Pi 4 with significant load for any measurable length of time, an active cooler is almost warranted or otherwise a very capable passive cooler. With the Raspberry Pi 4, a passive heatsink is an absolute minimum for running this new ARM SBC unless you want to deal with potentially drastic performance limitations based upon your operating conditions.
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