The New Argon 1 V3 M.2 Case for Raspberry Pi 5: A Comprehensive Review

We've got the new Argon 1 V3 M.2 case here, and we're going to take a closer look at its features and performance. As you can see, this case has two USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports, and a power button that works right out of the box. The magnetic top is easy to install and access, allowing us to easily connect our GPO pins to the Raspberry Pi. The labels on the case are really nice, making it easy to navigate.

One of the standout features of this case is its ability to handle faster storage media. We've got a power button here that works right out of the box, which is great for those who want a hassle-free experience. As you can see, we're using an NVMe drive in our test setup, and it's really making a huge difference. The case is designed to support PCIe 4.0, which allows us to take full advantage of this fast storage medium.

We've also got the ability to overclock the Raspberry Pi 5, which allows us to check out thermals with this unit. Everything loads up much quicker than it does from a Micro SD or even a fast USB drive. We're using Chromium as our web browser and going over to YouTube real quick to show you just how fast this case is. Even without overclocking on the CPU or GPU side, you'll definitely notice a difference with faster storage like this.

We've also run some speed tests on the Raspberry Pi 5, including stress testing the cooling system. The case has an actively cooled fan that will go off and come on as needed, and we were able to fully program the fan curve using the Argon software. We ran a 10-minute stress test on the unit, and even with it being overclocked at 3 GHz on the CPU and 1 GHz on the GPU, we only hit a maximum temperature of 60.7°C.

The storage speeds are really impressive, especially when compared to Micro SD cards. Our test setup is using a cheaper Kingston PCIe 4.0 512 GB drive, but even with that, we're seeing significant improvements over our usual SanDisk Ultra card. The disc read and write speeds on the NVMe drive are really quick, making it perfect for those who want fast storage.

One of the things that's really cool about this case is its overall design and build quality. It's definitely an awesome case that comes in at a list price of $49. While it may be a bit expensive compared to other cases on the market, we think it's worth it for all the features and performance it offers.

Overall, the Argon 1 V3 M.2 case is a great option for those who want a fast and reliable storage solution for their Raspberry Pi 5. With its PCIe 4.0 support and actively cooled fan, this case is perfect for those who want to get the most out of their hardware. If you're interested in learning more about this case or have any questions, be sure to check out the links below.

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If you've got any questions about this case or want to share your own experiences with it, please let us know in the comments below. We'd love to hear from you and discuss all things related to the Raspberry Pi 5 and its performance with the new Argon 1 V3 M.2 case.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again it's been a little while since we've taken a look at anything for the Raspberry Pi 5 but recently I got in what I consider the best case on the market for the pi five and of course there are a lot of cases out there for the Rasberry Pi but this has a lot build 10 it doesn't Just Dub as a case for the P because this has active and passive cooling it also brings those micro HDMI ports up on the Raspberry Pi 5 to fullsize HDMI ports and you can supercharge Raspberry Pi 5 by adding an nvme drive and all of this is going to run through the new PCI E Lanes on the pi 5 another thing we've got here is really great power management because it actually uses the same chip that's in the Raspberry Pi Pico the rp240 this is the allnew Argon one V3 m.2 nvme pcie case for the pi 5 and another thing that a lot of people were missing on the new Raspberry Pi 5 was a 3.5 mm audio jack with this case does add one on the re rear of the unit now in order to get this up and running with an nvme Drive obviously you'll need an nvme SSD I opted to use a cheaper pcie 4.0 512 GB Kingston Drive here but you could go with 3.0 and it will support older PCI ssds this is going to be so much faster than a Micro SD card or even USB storage argon 40 has recently released a ton of new products for the Raspberry Pi 5 including their new USBC PD 27 W charger they sent this over along with the argon 1v3 and in this video we're going to be putting this case together to see how it performs and looks now I've always been a big fan of these argon 40 cases we did have the Argon one for the Raspberry Pi 4 which turned out to be an absolutely amazing case but now that the pi 5 supports pcie we can really get some amazing speeds out of storage and uh with this nvme case I think this is really going to be the way to go the case does have a few sections now the top half of the case does contain our RP 40 chip along with our blower Style fan and this is an active and passively cooled setup you can also add one of their optional audio decks but basically with this case the extra aluminum up top is going to make contact with the CPU on the Raspberry Pi 5 extracting that heat and the blower style fan is going to keep that aluminum nice and chilly we can also set up different fan curves using their software now here's their HDMI SL powerboard this is going to bring those micro HDMI ports on the Raspberry Pi 5 up to full size and that's kind of one of my biggest gripes with the board itself so with this we do get two full-size HDMI outputs and of course we've got the bottom half which is going to house our nvme drive and again this is not running over USB since the pi 5 does have pcie that's how it's going to be connecting with older pies we used to be able to connect ssds to it using USB but that kind of killed performance a bit with this new pcie setup we should have a much faster system this case does come with two thermal pads and it's going to make contact with two sections on the pie first up we've got the CPU obviously we need to keep this nice and cool but we also want to cool down that PM I on the pii because it can get quite hot but luckily this case does both for us so I've already got the thermal pads installed now we're going to go ahead and connect the daughter board here HDMI and powerboard now before we install this in the top section of the case we do want to install our ribbon cable for that pcie connector on the pi five because it's kind of going to be out of place we just want to go ahead and put this in before we slide everything in the top side of the case with that in place basically what we're going to do here is just go ahead and plug this right in we need to line up our GPO pens and our Power Pin so uh GPO pens on the pi five going to line right up we'll go ahead and press everything in also got that pcie ribbon cable here so we can connect it to the bottom half of the case with that nvme drive now with this it does come with a nice little aluminum cooler that goes on the bottom we're going to slide our nvme Drive in here and I've already got my Raspberry Pi 5 set up to boot from nvme I've also installed Raspberry Pi OS on this Raspberry Pi separately and this is going to be very important I would highly recommend checking out Jeff gearing's website and YouTube video on nvme drives for the raspberry pi5 he goes into depth explaining how to get everything set up and with this you will need to add a line to the boot firmware config.txt now you will have to do this from within software so you could first boot from micro SD card with Raspberry Pi OS installed it's actually pretty simple and if you follow his tutorials you'll have no trouble setting it up bottom side here is full aluminum so it's going to cool that nvme drive off and uh I do have kind of a faster drive here for what the Raspberry Pi 5 is really going to support but this was cheap enough and it does work it's pcie 4.0 nothing super fancy we've also got this thermal pad here that'll go right over that nvme drive it's going to make contact with the bottom aluminum cooler four screws go in here and everything should be nice and secure now comes the tedious part but real quick I want to show you the daughter board that we installed on the Raspberry Pi 5 does have some power outputs to power that nvme drive it's actually set up really nicely and it's not that tedious you just need to kind of lay this down on the table you need to plug the ribbon cable into the connector on the nvme half it can be a little annoying but it's not that hard to do once we have the ribbon cable plugged in we can just kind of fold everything over it's going to go right into place four screws are going to secure the top half to the bottom and we've also got some rubber feet that we can install but once it's all put together it's a really nice looking setup super Sleek not much going on around front top or sides and sitting on a desk next to a monitor I think it looks really good and around back we've got that 3.5 mm audio jack USB type-c power in it's taken both of those micro hdmis up to fulls size HDM hmis two USB 2.0 ports two USB 3.0 ports and we've got a power button here which works right out of the box and of course just like the older argon one case we can still access all of our GPO pins here on the Raspberry Pi we've got a magnetic top here that just kind of goes right on and off everything's labeled really nice setup like I mentioned I've already set up my Raspberry Pi 5 and that nvme to go ahead and boot up front we can still see those status LEDs and this thing boots really really really fast my monitor actually can't keep up with it kind of goes right into the operating system before I get any kind of warning at all and there it is we're ready to use the Raspberry Pi 5 booting from a Micro SD card has definitely gotten a lot faster on the pi 5 I've been booting from USB I really haven't messed around with any kind of ssds or nvme drives but now that I've got this case here this is probably the only way I'm going to be running my Pi five it definitely makes a huge difference now I do have my Raspberry Pi 5 overclock because I wanted to check out you know thermals with this whole unit here everything loads up much quicker than it does from a Micro SD or even a fast USB for instance we'll go ahead and load up chromium just the web browser and we'll go over to YouTube real quick now even without an overclock on the CPU or GPU side with the pi5 you will definitely notice a difference having faster storage that's one thing that's really held these units back in the past just the slower micro SD and I know our interface is definitely improved with the pi5 along with newer cards being really quick but they can't keep up with this nvme SSD running over pcie I mean it's really really fast loading up let's say gimper almost immediately loads up into the interface I can go ahead and start doing some photo editing right here I did run some speed test I also ran some stress test on the Raspberry Pi 5 just to test out that cooling system and with this it is an actively cooled fan it'll go off it'll go to a lower RPM if you need it to and you can fully program The Fan curve using the Argon software over on their website they explain how to install it really easy to do after a little bit of testing wanted to give you an idea of the temps here and the speeds from that nvme this Raspberry Pi 5 is overclocked the 3 GHz on the CPU 1 GHz on the GPU and using software called stress I ran a 10-minute stress test on the unit we only hit a maximum temperature of 60 7° C and that fan does come on and off it's not loud at all you really kind of got to get close to it to hear it and when it comes to storage speeds it's really going to depend on what SSD you use like we saw I'm using a cheaper Kingston pcie 4.0 512 GB drive this is set up for PCI E3 through software as for boot times we're in user space in 12.6 seconds just to give you an idea my 64 GB SanDisk cards that I usually use take about 16 seconds I mean it's not that far off there but you know the pi5 does kind of boot fast on any kind of storage media and just taking a look at overall disc read disc right 4K random read on the leth hand side we've got the sandis ultra it's a 64 gig card disc read over on the SD card is 41 mbes per second using HD parm same exact test here disc read on that nvme is 423 mb per second cached disc read 430 dis right 280 and so on and so on I mean you can see it's a tremendous jump in speed when you compare it to micro SD cards and with something like the Raspberry Pi 5 you can definitely feel it in everyday tasks I mean just even booting the system up launching a web browser launching any application is going to be much quicker using faster storage like this so overall I think the new argon 1 V3 m.2 Cas for the Raspberry Pi 5 is definitely an awesome case list price on this is $49 it's definitely a bit expensive when you're talking about cases but we've got a lot built in here and in the end it's really up to you but that's going to wrap it up for this one if you're interested in learning a little more about this case for the Raspberry Pi I'll leave some links to argon 40's website down below and if you've got any questions let me know in the comments but like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again it's been a little while since we've taken a look at anything for the Raspberry Pi 5 but recently I got in what I consider the best case on the market for the pi five and of course there are a lot of cases out there for the Rasberry Pi but this has a lot build 10 it doesn't Just Dub as a case for the P because this has active and passive cooling it also brings those micro HDMI ports up on the Raspberry Pi 5 to fullsize HDMI ports and you can supercharge Raspberry Pi 5 by adding an nvme drive and all of this is going to run through the new PCI E Lanes on the pi 5 another thing we've got here is really great power management because it actually uses the same chip that's in the Raspberry Pi Pico the rp240 this is the allnew Argon one V3 m.2 nvme pcie case for the pi 5 and another thing that a lot of people were missing on the new Raspberry Pi 5 was a 3.5 mm audio jack with this case does add one on the re rear of the unit now in order to get this up and running with an nvme Drive obviously you'll need an nvme SSD I opted to use a cheaper pcie 4.0 512 GB Kingston Drive here but you could go with 3.0 and it will support older PCI ssds this is going to be so much faster than a Micro SD card or even USB storage argon 40 has recently released a ton of new products for the Raspberry Pi 5 including their new USBC PD 27 W charger they sent this over along with the argon 1v3 and in this video we're going to be putting this case together to see how it performs and looks now I've always been a big fan of these argon 40 cases we did have the Argon one for the Raspberry Pi 4 which turned out to be an absolutely amazing case but now that the pi 5 supports pcie we can really get some amazing speeds out of storage and uh with this nvme case I think this is really going to be the way to go the case does have a few sections now the top half of the case does contain our RP 40 chip along with our blower Style fan and this is an active and passively cooled setup you can also add one of their optional audio decks but basically with this case the extra aluminum up top is going to make contact with the CPU on the Raspberry Pi 5 extracting that heat and the blower style fan is going to keep that aluminum nice and chilly we can also set up different fan curves using their software now here's their HDMI SL powerboard this is going to bring those micro HDMI ports on the Raspberry Pi 5 up to full size and that's kind of one of my biggest gripes with the board itself so with this we do get two full-size HDMI outputs and of course we've got the bottom half which is going to house our nvme drive and again this is not running over USB since the pi 5 does have pcie that's how it's going to be connecting with older pies we used to be able to connect ssds to it using USB but that kind of killed performance a bit with this new pcie setup we should have a much faster system this case does come with two thermal pads and it's going to make contact with two sections on the pie first up we've got the CPU obviously we need to keep this nice and cool but we also want to cool down that PM I on the pii because it can get quite hot but luckily this case does both for us so I've already got the thermal pads installed now we're going to go ahead and connect the daughter board here HDMI and powerboard now before we install this in the top section of the case we do want to install our ribbon cable for that pcie connector on the pi five because it's kind of going to be out of place we just want to go ahead and put this in before we slide everything in the top side of the case with that in place basically what we're going to do here is just go ahead and plug this right in we need to line up our GPO pens and our Power Pin so uh GPO pens on the pi five going to line right up we'll go ahead and press everything in also got that pcie ribbon cable here so we can connect it to the bottom half of the case with that nvme drive now with this it does come with a nice little aluminum cooler that goes on the bottom we're going to slide our nvme Drive in here and I've already got my Raspberry Pi 5 set up to boot from nvme I've also installed Raspberry Pi OS on this Raspberry Pi separately and this is going to be very important I would highly recommend checking out Jeff gearing's website and YouTube video on nvme drives for the raspberry pi5 he goes into depth explaining how to get everything set up and with this you will need to add a line to the boot firmware config.txt now you will have to do this from within software so you could first boot from micro SD card with Raspberry Pi OS installed it's actually pretty simple and if you follow his tutorials you'll have no trouble setting it up bottom side here is full aluminum so it's going to cool that nvme drive off and uh I do have kind of a faster drive here for what the Raspberry Pi 5 is really going to support but this was cheap enough and it does work it's pcie 4.0 nothing super fancy we've also got this thermal pad here that'll go right over that nvme drive it's going to make contact with the bottom aluminum cooler four screws go in here and everything should be nice and secure now comes the tedious part but real quick I want to show you the daughter board that we installed on the Raspberry Pi 5 does have some power outputs to power that nvme drive it's actually set up really nicely and it's not that tedious you just need to kind of lay this down on the table you need to plug the ribbon cable into the connector on the nvme half it can be a little annoying but it's not that hard to do once we have the ribbon cable plugged in we can just kind of fold everything over it's going to go right into place four screws are going to secure the top half to the bottom and we've also got some rubber feet that we can install but once it's all put together it's a really nice looking setup super Sleek not much going on around front top or sides and sitting on a desk next to a monitor I think it looks really good and around back we've got that 3.5 mm audio jack USB type-c power in it's taken both of those micro hdmis up to fulls size HDM hmis two USB 2.0 ports two USB 3.0 ports and we've got a power button here which works right out of the box and of course just like the older argon one case we can still access all of our GPO pins here on the Raspberry Pi we've got a magnetic top here that just kind of goes right on and off everything's labeled really nice setup like I mentioned I've already set up my Raspberry Pi 5 and that nvme to go ahead and boot up front we can still see those status LEDs and this thing boots really really really fast my monitor actually can't keep up with it kind of goes right into the operating system before I get any kind of warning at all and there it is we're ready to use the Raspberry Pi 5 booting from a Micro SD card has definitely gotten a lot faster on the pi 5 I've been booting from USB I really haven't messed around with any kind of ssds or nvme drives but now that I've got this case here this is probably the only way I'm going to be running my Pi five it definitely makes a huge difference now I do have my Raspberry Pi 5 overclock because I wanted to check out you know thermals with this whole unit here everything loads up much quicker than it does from a Micro SD or even a fast USB for instance we'll go ahead and load up chromium just the web browser and we'll go over to YouTube real quick now even without an overclock on the CPU or GPU side with the pi5 you will definitely notice a difference having faster storage that's one thing that's really held these units back in the past just the slower micro SD and I know our interface is definitely improved with the pi5 along with newer cards being really quick but they can't keep up with this nvme SSD running over pcie I mean it's really really fast loading up let's say gimper almost immediately loads up into the interface I can go ahead and start doing some photo editing right here I did run some speed test I also ran some stress test on the Raspberry Pi 5 just to test out that cooling system and with this it is an actively cooled fan it'll go off it'll go to a lower RPM if you need it to and you can fully program The Fan curve using the Argon software over on their website they explain how to install it really easy to do after a little bit of testing wanted to give you an idea of the temps here and the speeds from that nvme this Raspberry Pi 5 is overclocked the 3 GHz on the CPU 1 GHz on the GPU and using software called stress I ran a 10-minute stress test on the unit we only hit a maximum temperature of 60 7° C and that fan does come on and off it's not loud at all you really kind of got to get close to it to hear it and when it comes to storage speeds it's really going to depend on what SSD you use like we saw I'm using a cheaper Kingston pcie 4.0 512 GB drive this is set up for PCI E3 through software as for boot times we're in user space in 12.6 seconds just to give you an idea my 64 GB SanDisk cards that I usually use take about 16 seconds I mean it's not that far off there but you know the pi5 does kind of boot fast on any kind of storage media and just taking a look at overall disc read disc right 4K random read on the leth hand side we've got the sandis ultra it's a 64 gig card disc read over on the SD card is 41 mbes per second using HD parm same exact test here disc read on that nvme is 423 mb per second cached disc read 430 dis right 280 and so on and so on I mean you can see it's a tremendous jump in speed when you compare it to micro SD cards and with something like the Raspberry Pi 5 you can definitely feel it in everyday tasks I mean just even booting the system up launching a web browser launching any application is going to be much quicker using faster storage like this so overall I think the new argon 1 V3 m.2 Cas for the Raspberry Pi 5 is definitely an awesome case list price on this is $49 it's definitely a bit expensive when you're talking about cases but we've got a lot built in here and in the end it's really up to you but that's going to wrap it up for this one if you're interested in learning a little more about this case for the Raspberry Pi I'll leave some links to argon 40's website down below and if you've got any questions let me know in the comments but like always thanks for watching\n"