Argon NEO Aluminum Case for Raspberry Pi 4 - Passive Heatsink, GPIO/HAT

The best balance of all factors for choosing a case for your Raspberry Pi. Brought my Temp down by 10°C-12°C This Argon Neo case is the best balance of all. It is refined and professional looking, while still offering access to the GPIO and camera ports. It looks like a finished product, not a project. I've had the CanaKit case, the "Official Raspberry Pi Case", the Argon One and the Flirc - all for Raspberry Pi 3 B+'s. All those cases have there pluses and minuses. (And I'd be fine to use any of them) See below: -Canakit - Cheap, good airflow, well made and allows access to GPIO and ports - a little cheesy looking though with the Raspberry Pi logo cut out of the lid -The "Official RPI Case" by Adafruit - same as above but much nicer looking - although the new ones for RPI 4 seem to only come in pink/white (yuk) - My only real dislike of this case is that the top is curved so you can't stack them (if that even matters) - Flirc - Awesome build quality and similar to Argon Neo for cooling - more work to get to GPIO (4 screws) but has a slot that you can route a ribbon cable through. - I consider this case best for when you know exactly what the RPI's purpose is and you don't need to get inside anymore. (It's silver - I personally prefer the Neo's charcoal) - Argon One - The best if you are using your RPI as a desktop computer or game console - has the best cooling in the form of the case being a heatsink as well as having a fan. The Argon One also has the benefit of a little add-on board the moves all connections to the rear of the case - this is both a cleaner look as well as reducing wear to the plugs on the RPI itself. The Argon One also gives you a power button on the back so you don't need to be always plugging and unplugging power. The only potential drawback to the Argon One is that it is near twice the size of the other cases, but that shouldn't matter if you're using it as intended.

Summary: A proper Raspberry PI 4 case with a decent heat spreading passive solution. Good price range and looks nice design wise with a sliding magnetic panel for easy access. Easy assembly. Let me just start off with one main thing I've had with some Raspberry Pi cases of other brands, I've tried out a few other cases before across multiple Pi versions and I've had issues with assembling some of them, either due to the screws or the instructions being off. (Not related to this product) One of the Raspberry Pi 3 cases I tried to install ended up damaging my micro SD card and my port being destroyed. Due to this I needed a proper case that wasn't going to wreck my micro sd card port for my Raspberry Pi 4 when I actually put the case together and or removed the case!. Back to the product, I'm glad however that this case was easy to assemble and the instructions were also rather easy to follow, it's pretty simple steps. I do really like the look of this case, and love the magnet sliding panel it has. One other feature I find neat for future projects is that the case has the GPIO pins labeled. (Also my micro sd card is fine and so is the port!) Since this case is an overall heat sink, it does a decent job keeping the temps perfect, It's running around 48C and this is also with a slightly overclocked CPU frequency + no fans. The case does get warm to the touch which is good because the heat dissipation is working. Without the case, my PI would get pretty hot and sometimes throttle depending on the loads. Overall with the case design. It's slick with the case allowing you to see the indicator lights easily and allows you access to the micro sd card slot. I've noticed some other cases simply don't even allow you to access the micro sd card slot making you have to tear the entire case apart to swap cards. For my needs and first impressions and tests it does check my checklist. If you need a proper case that isn't complicated to install and want a slick case and better cooling. This is the case for the price point.

This is a very sturdy case that provides excellent thermal dissipation for my RPi 4 4GB while running the official PoE Hat. Even with the lid installed on the case my RPi hasn't exceeded 42C. I know it is not recommended/designed to leave the lid on while running the PoE Hat, I've had no problems with it to this point. The installation was pretty straight forward and easy enough to do; takes less than 10 minutes even being careful and perusing the manual. The Argon Neo is a very good case, don't think about it, just buy it.

First off, I like the case, hence 4 stars for my review. It is solid, looks good, and isn't too big. But I have two issues with it. First, during assembly, one of the four screw holes on the bottom stripped. I did not over tighten, the screw just never stopped spinning. The other three holes are fine. Second, for an aluminum (mostly, the bottom tray is plastic) case, it runs warm. Idle temp is consistently 48c and I tested it running a load, two movies playing and consuming 50-70% cpu, the temp peaked at 58.5c, so kinda warm. This is with no fan and the lid on, just for testing purposes. I love my Argon One case, and the Neo is OK for $15, but not 5 star quality or design.

Exact fit for my Pi 4b. Very easy to assemble. All ports and connections aligned as expected. The direct cooling (thermal transfer cooling) works great. I did purchase and use their cooling system (fan hat) to increase cooling capacity. It works well and is relatively quiet. The case doesn’t include a power supply.

Great product, arrived on time

This is the fourth type of Raspberry Pi case that I have, and by far the best. Prior to this my favorite case was the Smraza, and I have them on a Pi3 and a Pi4. The thing I liked about those cases is that could add the heatsinks and still get a ribbon cable attached to the GPIO headers (although it required assembling the case around the cable.) Other cases blocked off access to the GPIO, which doesn't work for me. All the other cases also required separate heatsinks. The other cases typically include a half dozen pieces that need to be carefully assembled like a jigsaw puzzle around the board. Not this one. This case rocks. The case itself is the heatsink, no need to apply anything else (just put the thermal tape on the cpu before assembly.) The case is also only 2 pieces, which is so much easier. In addition the case includes labels for all of the GPIO pins and attachments on the pi when the *really cool* magnetic top is removed. This is the only case I will buy from now on.

I have had several different RPi 4B cases over the years but the Argon40 Neo is excellent. It has room under its lid for the Argon1 FanHAT. I am not worried about the Pi getting damaged as the case is well built. With the Fan HAT the temp of the 4B stays very constant.

When another passively cooled Raspberry Pi case popped up in my recommends list, I had to try it out. The case has three main pieces which was easy to assemble. The top two pieces are aluminum while the bottom piece is translucent plastic. The case does get warm after some use which means the case is working as designed. The case is pretty sturdy but the only possible thing that may be a problem in the future is that the top piece is partially held on by magnets. The magnets may weaken over time so it may slide off in the future (but at least it would be easy to use a piece of tape to keep it in place). If you want a passively cooled case but still have access to the GPIO pins, camera port and/or internal display port, this is the case to get!

Justo el aspecto final que quería, una caja robusta que además ofrece un aspecto cuidado y profesional. Deja accesos para las conexiones sin problemas, y muy fácil de instalar con tapa deslizante

Eccellente case metallico per dissipare passivamente il calore del processore e delle ram per il pi 4. Senza ventole tiene la board sui 50 gradi smaltendo il calore anche con la pi 4 in full load non si passano i 65 gradi. Compatibile con la ventola argon che si alloggia perfettamente sotto allo sportello magnetico (che poteva essere preforato a tale scopo invece é completamente sigillato). Fatto salvo per i fori di areazione (che si fanno in un attimo) é un case fantastico per un pi 4 senza ventole. Si può sempre eliminare il top cover se non si ha voglia di forzarlo.

Einfach zu verwenden. Platzsparend. Super.

Perfect fit good heat control