GeeekPi Aluminum Case for Raspberry Pi 5, Pi 5 Passive Cooling Case with Cooling Column and Thermal Pads for Raspberry Pi 5

I liked that it's construction should cool and protect pi and not fear fans failing as I dealt with in pcs. The expansion port access if you have ribbon cable. Case does not have pins open for a caper/sheild/plug in board. I'm OK for now. It provided several thermal pads to transfer heat to case fins. It's my rugged pi 5 enclosure.

Pretty easy to use, nice and sturdy for how little it costs.

Really nice case, but have to take one star down because of the micro HDMI hole being a little bit too small and causing the micro HDMI cable to not being secured properly and lost of signal when the Raspberry Pi is moved a little bit.

Great case keeps the R-Pi 5 cool and is very sturdy. It also doesn't bow the circuit board like another one I had tired. 4 stars because the cut-outs for the micro HDMI video sockets don't allow you to plug in a micro HDMI cable. Sockets are too far in for the cable to make contact with the pins in the socket. My solution was to cut some plastic off the end of the cable as shown in the picture. This is about the thickness that the sockets are recessed using this case. David Paul

I ordered this case from Amazon when I pre-ordered a Raspberry Pi 5 8GB. I am not expecting to receive the Pi until mid to late February. I have worked with Raspberry Pi Versions 1 and 2, but I have not worked with one since 2017. There are some unknowns with this project, so this review may change after I have the Pi installed, configured and running. I admit that I am a little nervous with a passive cooling case for my application. This Raspberry Pi 5 will be an always on, headless server mounted in a flush-type wall-mount network cabinet (with door) with other network equipment in a dusty shop environment. This environment will increase the ambient temperature within the cabinet, but this is partially offset in that graphics will not contribute to the heat load. Geeekpi has a minimalist aluminum alloy active cooling armour case, but it is not a full enclosure, leaving the USB and Network ports exposed. While the fan has greater ability to cool the board, the shop is a dusty environment. I selected this full enclosure armour (passive cooling) case because of dust, and for plan B if the device is relocated to the shop environment for any reason. This armour case is a full enclosure, and the passive cooling should help reduce dust on the board. Plan C would be to add a 50mm x 10mm USB fan to the topside of this case, inside the cabinet. I will test the internal and external temperatures before the solution is deployed into the shop environment. This will determine if passive cooling is a reasonable solution for this application. I have given this case a tentative 5 star rating based on what I have in hand at this time, the case. It is a solid case with passive cooling for the potential abuses in a shop environment.