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Does it still have thermal problems?

tryptophan 7y ago
I bought it on release, and use it as a home server. It idles around 46. Doesn't seem too hot to me. If you want graphs you can check here https://ci0s.xyz/api https://ci0s.xyz/api I just leave it sitting on a shelf near router. No fans or heatsinks.
- josteink 7y ago
  What do you use to generate that page? Any standard off-the-shelf software?
  - tryptophan 7y ago
    I wanted to try my hand at webdev. Its a custom built flask/gunicorn server serving matplotlib generated graphs with bootstrap css.
grovellogic 7y ago
Define thermal problems? They get warm, but newer firmware seems to do much better than the first ones.You could just add a fan and not worry about it.
- opless 7y ago
  My early version one (4Gb version), was terrible. I had to buy a fan (thank pimoroni) to stop it thermal throttling. It was quite poor in performance (youtube tearing a lot, usb keyboard issues, freezing occasionally) I hope when I plug it in again and update it, things will have stabilised a bit.
  - vardump 7y ago
    I also had an early 4 GB model (well, two of them), and parent post is absolutely correct about initial thermal issues — it was running hot and throttling very heavily. Later firmware releases improved things a lot.
    - mxie-ca 7y ago
      Agree. my 4GB model is at around 50C most of the time with pihole running. I don't have any heatsink/fan attached to it either
    - opless 7y ago
      So I ought to update it and have another go ?
      - vardump 7y ago
        Let's see, my two updated RPi4 4GBs, no added cooling, both idling: $ vcgencmd measure_temp temp=47.0'C $ vcgencmd measure_temp temp=50.0'C Not amazing, but good enough for me.
        opless 7y ago
        I'll give it another go this coming week then! Cheers!
  - colechristensen 7y ago
    Everything thermal throttles these days, but the early Pi4 firmware did it particularly poorly. Bonus tip: if you want a performance boost on an old laptop, open it up and clean out the caked in dust. Extra points for cleaning and upgrading the thermal compound on the CPU
bjoli 7y ago
I use a pi4 4gb as my controller for my ubiquiti device and as a pi-hole. It has the PoE hat with the fan removed and a piece of aluminium tube filled with coins and thermal goo standing on the processor. It is in a hot room (about 32c) and even under stress on all cores I have never seen higher temps than 67c. The usb chip is hot as F though, even with updated firmware.

I bought it on release, and use it as a home server. It idles around 46. Doesn't seem too hot to me. If you want graphs you can check here https://ci0s.xyz/api https://ci0s.xyz/api I just leave it sitting on a shelf near router. No fans or heatsinks.

josteink 7y ago
What do you use to generate that page? Any standard off-the-shelf software?
- tryptophan 7y ago
  I wanted to try my hand at webdev. Its a custom built flask/gunicorn server serving matplotlib generated graphs with bootstrap css.

grovellogic 7y ago

Define thermal problems? They get warm, but newer firmware seems to do much better than the first ones.You could just add a fan and not worry about it.

opless 7y ago
My early version one (4Gb version), was terrible. I had to buy a fan (thank pimoroni) to stop it thermal throttling. It was quite poor in performance (youtube tearing a lot, usb keyboard issues, freezing occasionally) I hope when I plug it in again and update it, things will have stabilised a bit.
- vardump 7y ago
  I also had an early 4 GB model (well, two of them), and parent post is absolutely correct about initial thermal issues — it was running hot and throttling very heavily. Later firmware releases improved things a lot.
  - mxie-ca 7y ago
    Agree. my 4GB model is at around 50C most of the time with pihole running. I don't have any heatsink/fan attached to it either
  - opless 7y ago
    So I ought to update it and have another go ?
    - vardump 7y ago
      Let's see, my two updated RPi4 4GBs, no added cooling, both idling: $ vcgencmd measure_temp temp=47.0'C $ vcgencmd measure_temp temp=50.0'C Not amazing, but good enough for me.
      - opless 7y ago
        I'll give it another go this coming week then! Cheers!
- colechristensen 7y ago
  Everything thermal throttles these days, but the early Pi4 firmware did it particularly poorly. Bonus tip: if you want a performance boost on an old laptop, open it up and clean out the caked in dust. Extra points for cleaning and upgrading the thermal compound on the CPU

bjoli 7y ago

I use a pi4 4gb as my controller for my ubiquiti device and as a pi-hole. It has the PoE hat with the fan removed and a piece of aluminium tube filled with coins and thermal goo standing on the processor. It is in a hot room (about 32c) and even under stress on all cores I have never seen higher temps than 67c. The usb chip is hot as F though, even with updated firmware.