Today, at the entrance to work, they also measured my body temperature, I am satisfied with 36.1C° 
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Yes it is quite amazing that our human body operates just fine at 36C. 
Biological computer.
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biomechanics, there’s nothing to be done 
If the VIM3 was mounted vertically and on its side, and the fins were aligned vertically, would that have a similar effect as taller fins?
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Mike, do you want your vim to sail away?) 
I’m hoping the cables will hold it down in case of a strong breeze.
BTW I’m Mike, this might confuse Robert.
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I saw in some message, they called you Robert, so I don’t understand either, sorry of course)
100%! 
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Yes, actually. You read my mind.
Of course the default position is horizontal, but, you can always put it vertically.
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Yes I am Robert and you are Mike
Please make sure it stays that way
I still think bigger is better and a fan to blow the dust out 
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Yes, I recall seeing that. Though my name is Mike, evidently I write like a Robert. 
Of course, no sorry is necessary.
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I’m working on it…
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Hello. Your new heatsink designs are beautiful!
I can not buy a case in my country and i do not like fans, so i made a heatsink out of a broken geforce graphics card.
Max temp in sbc-bench is 65 Celsius with 23 degrees ambient temperature.
Since bottom of heatsink did not fit, i scraped off thermal pads from old graphics cards and built a spongy interface. It is good enough and very cheap.
Important: do not do this at home unless you are willing to risk destroying your VIM3. Also consider:
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Do not let heatsink contact any conductive board components, ever!
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After grinding/cutting away metal, brush clean and wash and brush the entire heat sink to prevent any metal dust from falling on the board when mounted.
Final price was 2 Euro.
Cheers!
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Nice, but that’s huge.
It will cover the whole pcb so not worried about dust getting inside. 
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For next board, please consider putting cpu on bottom for contact to case. Thx!
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Double the thickness of the base plate and you will get much better cooling via lateral heat-transfer.
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Good point, thank you.
I shouldn’t have written ‘much’. It needs to be simulated and the benefits weighted against increased materials costs, of course.
I am curious to see the simulatioin results! Cheers!
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I reseated my heatsink and now do not exceed 65°C . Here are three movies at 640-820p playing at once with -vo x11
With new khadas 5.5.0 kernel and devuan, video playback is fntastic! I do not need VPU acceleration !
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hi, can you attach a photo of the radiator? thank! looks good!
