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You forgot to mention what you use them for. My pi3 is inside a Lego case with no fan. I watch videos with it, use it as a git repo host and share files from it
by iamnotacrook 7y ago
You forgot to mention what you use them for. My pi3 is inside a Lego case with no fan. I watch videos with it, use it as a git repo host and share files from it and have never had a problem. I never turn it off. But perhaps if it was compiling or something I'd need to worry.
- dspillett 7y agoIt depends on the video. The pair of Pi units I currently have active (something from the v2 line and a 3B+) are being video players via LibreELEC (the third was a small server for DHCP, NTP, ad filtering DNS, etc, though those jobs are now done elsewhere as it kept eating SD cards). For almost everything I've thrown at the 3 all has been well. The thermal throttle kicks in after a while playing 1080p HEVC clips and occasionally on 720p ones, and makes them skip badly until it has chance to cool down, but that is not unexpected (I'm surprised 720p works as well as it usually does) as those are fairly processing intensive formats and being decoded in software. h264 and other encodings play back for hours on end (1080p or less, the limit of my current TVs) without it getting too warm for comfort. This is in a bog-standard case, with vents but no extra heatsinks or fans. When I have time to faf around (this is a busy month) I'll probably grab a 4 for the HEVC-in-hardware (though support for that in LibreELEC is only in Alpha versions ATM), and hand down the 3 (or put it away for some future project).