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I probably shouldn’t poke fun- but I found it a little bit hilarious that we brought a Pi 4 to its knees on launch day in the Cambridge Pi Store just demoing a
by gadgetoid 7y ago
I probably shouldn’t poke fun- but I found it a little bit hilarious that we brought a Pi 4 to its knees on launch day in the Cambridge Pi Store just demoing a web application. The totally enclosed official case is a baffling idea and if memory serves it was a warm day to boot. Reminds me- I still haven’t dremelled holes in mine. The case, not the Pi.
- Narishma 7y agoI think that says more about web tech than the Raspberry Pi.
- jrockway 7y agoNot really. The CPU generates 5W of heat which needs to be removed or it will throttle itself down. The way the default Raspberry Pi 4 chooses to remove heat is by interfacing the CPU directly with air inside a closed container. This does not work well. As an aside, the reality is that the Raspberry Pi is not a particularly speedy computer even when not thermally throttled. It is close in non-graphics performance to x86 computers from the 2000s. Though using only 5W to do that is a huge improvement; that was the era when CPU heatsinks started getting so big they broke the CPU socket off the motherboard ;)