> Yeah, as soon as I heard about the 5 needing cooling for most tasks I went ahead and got a 8GB Pi 4. You heard wrong, then. "For normal usage of your Raspbe

> Yeah, as soon as I heard about the 5 needing cooling for most tasks I went ahead and got a 8GB Pi 4. You heard wrong, then. "For normal usage of your Raspberry Pi, adding cooling is entirely optional. The idle performance of a Raspberry Pi 4 and a Raspberry Pi 5 is about the same, and under typical loads Raspberry Pi 5 will run cooler than a similarly loaded Raspberry Pi 4." "even when fully throttled, a Raspberry Pi 5 is still going to run faster than a Raspberry Pi 4!" https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/heating-and-cooling-raspberry-pi-5/ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/heating-and-cooling-raspber... A Pi 5 has a higher performance ceiling than the Pi 4 when passively cooled, and an even higher one with active cooling. The Pi 5 does not need cooling for most tasks.