How to Cool Your Raspberry Pi - Practical Tips - Myths Debunked

One of the most popular experiments to do with your Raspberry Pi is overclocking it. Overclocking is fairly simple to do on the Raspberry Pi, however, it requires additional cooling in the form of heatsinks and fans to ensure that the Pi doesn't overheat and damage itself. You may also find that your Pi gets hot under heavy usage, and it can be a good idea to cool it down, especially when using intensive processes such as the N64 emulator for RetroPie.

Whilst real world scenarios are unlikely to load you CPU to 100%, all the time, there is a stress test application called CPU Burn which loads up all of the cores and is the quickest way to find out if your Pi will run cool or not. A standard Pi, with no overclocking, and no additional cooling will max out at 80 degrees Celsius within approximately 10 seconds of running CPU Burn. Yeah, it's pretty savage. As we mentioned before, not a real world scenario, but a pretty good test of stability.


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