Pironman5 very poor overclocking potential

General
1

Hi

First I’d like to say I very much enjoy my Pironman5 case. It’s very pretty and makes for an awesome retro-console/media center!

That being said. I found out that it pretty much limits any ability to do some worthwhile overclocking.

With the same unit, outside the case, I could easily get to 2,9GHz stable with a delta overvolt of 50K. Using a 5,1V/5A power supply.

In the Pironman5 case, I can’t get past 2,6GHz, no matter what overvolt value I try. Same power supply is used as before.

The only thing I could think of is the issue lies in the USB-PD/HDMI board. Voltage drop or power delivery constraint from connectors or PCB traces?

Anyway, Am I the only one?

2

Thanks for your contact.We still need to take more time to test it.

3

Hi there,
I ran into the same. I bought the case mainly because of the massive cooler and the idea to push overclocking to the limits with that. But 2600 is max here too. I am very disappointed. With the chips running at default there actually is no need for cooling at all. So now I’m really questioning the whole case. Basically it just looks cool…
Any suggestion welcome
Cheers
Michael

1 Like
4

I have over clocked my raspberry pi 5 in a Pironman 5 case. The CPU is running stable at 3.00GHZ
with the GPU overclocked to 1.00GHZ

5

Same for me, 3.0ghz, PWM fan set at 35°C, RGB fan at performance, all system is stable, running latest raspios bookworm 64 bits mounted on SSD.

Have you update the kernel? Are you using original power supply?

6

Hi.

I had a similar issue as the OP.

My RPi5 in the Pironman5 wouldn’t overclock with the machine hanging even before fully booting.

I was using my usual overclock routine (From Jeff Geerling) with official raspberry pi 5 power supply.

I got the pi5 easiy to 3Gig outside the case but not once built into the case.

As there are many permutatuons of overclocking code I am wondering if the successful posters were dping something different that may be worth a try).

My unsuccessful code used “over_voltage_delta=50000” as this is supposed to be a better way of ensuring overvoltage.

If folk could share their successful overclocking code i’d be really grateful.

Thanks

J

Btw jeff’s code is available at Overclocking and *Underclocking* the Raspberry Pi 5 | Jeff Geerling

7

I’m very sorry, but we didn’t have the problem you mentioned.
We followed the overclocking tutorial you provided and the pi5 is installed in the case and can be overclocked up to 3G. we are using the official PI5 Raspberry Pi power supply. The Raspberry Pi board is the PI5 4GB model.
You can also try this method:
https://cloud-atlas.readthedocs.io/zh-cn/latest/raspberry_pi/performance/pi_5_overclock.html

image (11)
image (11)1920×911 101 KB

8

Hi,

Thank you for such comprehensive and prompt support.

I will give my method another try and perhaps try the alternative method you linked to.

Thanks again for the reply. I am extremely impressed.

J

1 Like