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Yup that foam "case" made me cringe. Not just poor airflow, but actually wrapping the heat generating bits in insulation.

alias_neo 4y ago
It conjured up images of suffocating someone with a pillow, while they run a marathon in the desert. Pis get pretty warm, I haven't looked back at my B+ for a while but I don't think it was a heck of a lot cooler than the more modern devices.
- hddherman 4y ago
  The recent models do get quite warm, especially Pi 4, but the Pi 1 with an overclock has not gone over 50C in this setup, and that's at a constant 100% CPU usage.
  - alias_neo 4y ago
    That's a very reasonable temperature I'd say for 100% usage. When I was running a Pihole; I don't recall if it was on a 3B or 3B+ but it would idle at ~55C. This gives me an idea; I might see if I can run some thermal testing on all of the Pis I have using my Flir to get some thermal images and put together a little write-up. I've done a bit of experimentation previously when I'd build a little 1U server case with 3 Pi 4B in and added a custom fan controller (using an ESP32) to stick in my network rack, and it was running Kubernetes, but I didn't keep it long.
    - jve 4y ago
      Someone has already done it for you: https://www.hackster.io/news/raspberry-pi-4-firmware-updates-tested-a-deep-dive-into-thermal-performance-and-optimization-2f22c78e7089 https://www.hackster.io/news/raspberry-pi-4-firmware-updates... For RPI4, firmware update is requried to improve rpi performance and decrease temps.
      - alias_neo 4y ago
        Nice; my experimentation was actually before this (and I posted it to the RPi forums), the firmware updates _did_ make a measurable difference but I decommissioned the setup shortly after testing it. EDIT: What that post is missing, is a comparison of all generations of the Pi; We know the Pi4 is hot, but I haev every previous generation sitting in the drawer, might be interesting (for me at least) to do some comparison.
        jve 4y ago
        My RPI4 sits in a closet. 67 max temp, usually 57. I got the heatsink-enclosure. And I haven't myself made the firmware update - I may still have the bad one.

alias_neo 4y ago

It conjured up images of suffocating someone with a pillow, while they run a marathon in the desert. Pis get pretty warm, I haven't looked back at my B+ for a while but I don't think it was a heck of a lot cooler than the more modern devices.

hddherman 4y ago
The recent models do get quite warm, especially Pi 4, but the Pi 1 with an overclock has not gone over 50C in this setup, and that's at a constant 100% CPU usage.
- alias_neo 4y ago
  That's a very reasonable temperature I'd say for 100% usage. When I was running a Pihole; I don't recall if it was on a 3B or 3B+ but it would idle at ~55C. This gives me an idea; I might see if I can run some thermal testing on all of the Pis I have using my Flir to get some thermal images and put together a little write-up. I've done a bit of experimentation previously when I'd build a little 1U server case with 3 Pi 4B in and added a custom fan controller (using an ESP32) to stick in my network rack, and it was running Kubernetes, but I didn't keep it long.
  - jve 4y ago
    Someone has already done it for you: https://www.hackster.io/news/raspberry-pi-4-firmware-updates-tested-a-deep-dive-into-thermal-performance-and-optimization-2f22c78e7089 https://www.hackster.io/news/raspberry-pi-4-firmware-updates... For RPI4, firmware update is requried to improve rpi performance and decrease temps.
    - alias_neo 4y ago
      Nice; my experimentation was actually before this (and I posted it to the RPi forums), the firmware updates _did_ make a measurable difference but I decommissioned the setup shortly after testing it. EDIT: What that post is missing, is a comparison of all generations of the Pi; We know the Pi4 is hot, but I haev every previous generation sitting in the drawer, might be interesting (for me at least) to do some comparison.
      - jve 4y ago
        My RPI4 sits in a closet. 67 max temp, usually 57. I got the heatsink-enclosure. And I haven't myself made the firmware update - I may still have the bad one.