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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