Hello tkaiser, From CNX, “The board should ship with two Wi-Fi antennas and a heatsink.”. Also, “Cooling fan header controlled by PWM, with a 0.8mm pitch header”.
Heatsink should help. Fan header and controller should help take care of any excess heat.
Such a huge passive heatsink as can be seen on the RockPro64 is sufficient, anything smaller not. At least not if you want to take advantage of the CPU horsepower living inside RK3399.
BTW: It’s easy to measure ‘thermal efficiency’ now with sbc-bench. I developed the tool especially to get an idea how/when throttling occurs.
But the Edge promo/product page says that just a heatsink will be included (see screenshot). Or does “Heatsink x1(TBC)” equal the : Edge Heatsink enclosing/case, that you mentioned.
In addition, we have the Edge-V, which is basically a VIM Board with the RK3399 Chip. The samples should be in within 1-3 days, will post some photos then!
From the images I see pity there was not more thru holes in the PCB, round CPU area.
Could have easily mounted Slab of alloy top a bottom with thermal Pad,
A small fan if needed just to keep the air moving
Buts vents and the law of thermal thermal dynamics normally takes care of that must have vents
My fiddling with just the Normal Android Boxes and I have fiddle a few
Never any vents must cost a lot of extra to put in vents…
Look forward to you investigations,
