Yes
Not sure how central that is to CPU if you wanted to fit a 6x6x14 heatsink.
as long as the CPU is fully exposed to the hole it will be fine.
One can just attached heatsink to CPU and it will poke thru…easy.
Thanks
I was thinking smaller base heatsink to cover cpu, and fins protruding through lid, just ideas…
Thanks
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Happy new Year,
I really like tiny devices like the Vim and want to run a full Linux distribution on them.
I’ll a buy a VIM (or better two 
) when it can be orderd with an already mounted heatsink and working GPU drivers in Ubuntu or Debian.
Which CPU temp do you get when running this for some time in a terminal ?
yes “yes > /dev/null&” | head -n4 | bash
The odroid developers got the S905 SOC running @max 1.7 GHz, can you reach that
clock frequency or just 1.5 GHz ?
Will the CPU shut down or just throttle when overheating occurs ?
Bye,
Peter
Happy new year!
What do you mean here?
It’s upto the temp:
- Will limited the CPU freq by software when over temp
- Will shutdown if the temp heat a higher trigger value
open a terminal and try a small performance test with heavy load on all 4 CPU cores:
$ yes "yes > /dev/null&" | head -n4 | bash
How is the CPU temperature now after running this for a minute ?
Get around 2 mins later
root@Khadas:~# cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp
79000
root@Khadas:~# cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp
79000
top - 12:57:30 up 2:41, 2 users, load average: 4.08, 2.96, 1.42
Tasks: 136 total, 5 running, 131 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 10.8 us, 89.2 sy, 0.0 ni, 0.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem : 1851956 total, 1476780 free, 157536 used, 217640 buff/cache
KiB Swap: 131068 total, 131068 free, 0 used. 1649972 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4877 root 20 0 3388 308 240 R 100.0 0.0 6:25.26 yes
4878 root 20 0 3388 312 240 R 100.0 0.0 6:25.52 yes
4875 root 20 0 3388 308 240 R 99.7 0.0 6:25.44 yes
4876 root 20 0 3388 308 240 R 99.7 0.0 6:24.44 yes
The temp sometime will head 85C:(Tested on VIM Pro, ROM: Vim_Ubuntu-16.04_V170102)
root@Khadas:~# cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp
85000
root@Khadas:~# cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp
85000
root@Khadas:~# cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp
77000
root@Khadas:~#
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I have stopped the testing above, following date was got when I playing video:
root@Khadas:~# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq
1512000
1512000
1512000
1512000
root@Khadas:~#
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Thank you Gouwa, some SOC’s start throttling at about 90 to 95 degrees, some shutdown at 75. Would have been interesting if the S905X already throttled to lower frequ at 85 or if it keeps running at 1512000. I will explore this when I get my VIM Pro.
Hello pebau, Good to see you here. I enjoy your site and have learned much about Linux on ARM there. Great coverage of the 3288. Looking forwad to your efforts on the Vim.
whats the update on the fan and new plastic mount ??? thanks
The cooling fan factory in Taiwan are making that, will be available for shopping around 18 Jan, and will do presale fisrt.
Thanks for the info looking forward to get the stuff!
I’ve been testing my vim flatout for three days now running as a fileserver with multiple vpns on attached too a nas and streaming music and videos occasionally and impressively too. CPU hasn’t moved off 1.5ghz the whole time.
Ambient temps are around 25-31°, its hot here in Aus right now.
Maximum temperature was 103° average of 89°.
I have since removed the top layer of acrylic on the case and added heatsinks I got from here using four of them on the CPU, side by side… then stuck another three on the memory and wifi heatspreader… doesn’t need it but why not at that price ha.
Coretemp is hovering around 75-79°C, unit is no longer hot before it was quite warm to pickup as the top layer of acrylic was heatsoaking the unit.
I’ll put some pictures up tomorrow. Plan too add a fan from a northbridge chipset cooler, believe the fan is 40mm. should sit over/between the gpio pins and the usb nicely.
The unit it’s fine at high temps sofar, hasn’t missed a beat, it’s just the crazy hot weather we have had here that is making everything run hot, my poor router has clapped out four times today, had too bolt a big ugly cpu fan to it.
might have too by a couple more vims…
Hi, Stone:
Which ROM did you install when you did the test?
Oh right sorry, both Android and Ubuntu.
Vim_Marshmallow_Root_161213 & Vim_Ubuntu-16.04_V170102
just for reference… 
Yesterday was the coolest day in two weeks.
Is it Ubuntu without desktop match your requirements? If so, we can release a Ubuntu server ROM for your case.
==> There are different ways configuration solutions, and now we config as Performance mode:
Thanks, but desktop is preferred as this unit will end up as a home media center with maybe some torrents and a vpn. It will have multiple people using it so it needs a GUI.
may end up having the vpn hosted on the router as it’s more efficient and easier too keep track of that way. anyway…
I have minimal time right now to work on this project as im about to move house, but after the move my main goal is to have Fedora running native sometime and push the code upstream.
back on topic, Im making a shim up now so i can mount a northbridge heatsink and fan, i’ll put up pictures later.
need to connect the fan also, don’t have any voltage protection for the gpio so i don’t want too use that, might just power it from usb for the time being.
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*i have had the governor set too performance the whole time on all roms.
edit: pics
If anyone wants me too break out the micrometer and take measurements etc let me know and I’ll do what I can tonight/tomorrow.
