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If the Nintendo 64 was entirely passively cooled, surely the Pi can be? Mind Nintendo/SGI had much more surface area to work with so this is probably an unfair
by TazeTSchnitzel 7y ago
If the Nintendo 64 was entirely passively cooled, surely the Pi can be? Mind Nintendo/SGI had much more surface area to work with so this is probably an unfair comparison.
- bantunes 7y agoThe Pi 4 is much more powerful than an N64. So much so, it can emulate it in software.
- seanhandley 7y agoWay to put it into perspective!
- TazeTSchnitzel 7y agoNot in terms of heat output surely?
- darkpuma 7y agoAccording to random unsourced claims I just found on an internet forum, which I've decided to trust: NES: 9 watts Super NES: 10 watts Nintendo 64: 19 watts GameCube: 39 watts Wii: 45 watts PlayStation: 17 watts Game Boy: 0.7 watts Game Boy Advance SP: 1.6 watts The rasppi 4 is supposedly 4 watts when idle, and under 8 watts when loaded. (So there is really no question that a machine like this can run with passive cooling, but obviously it's going to be a function of case size and design, as well as heatsink size and design.)
- ChickeNES 7y agoThe Nintendo 64 has a U shaped piece of aluminum spanning the width of the console that screws through the RF shielding and into heatspreaders on the RDRAM, CPU, and RCP. It's about 2 RasPi's long by itself :P