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Re:Way to keep your cool running a Raspberry Pi 4 (2019) on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @04:44AM (#23475137)
Thermal engineer here. There absolutely no need to use fan cooling, humongous heatsinks or harebrained temperature controller schemes to cool the raspberry pi 4.

All that is needed is a small heatsink to slightly decrease the thermal resistance to ambient air, to stay below the thermal throttling threshold.

Anything more complicated than that is a pointless exercise in pointlessness.