The $35 Raspberry Pi 4 now comes with double the RAM

Re:The $35 Raspberry Pi 4 now comes with double the RAM by opless on Thursday February 27, 2020 @12:32PM (#22435512)

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.

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Re:The $35 Raspberry Pi 4 now comes with double the RAM by vardump on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:08PM (#22435909)

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.

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Re:The $35 Raspberry Pi 4 now comes with double the RAM by mxie-ca on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:37PM (#22436253)

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

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Re:The $35 Raspberry Pi 4 now comes with double the RAM by opless on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:47PM (#22437644)

So I ought to update it and have another go ?

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Re:The $35 Raspberry Pi 4 now comes with double the RAM by vardump on Thursday February 27, 2020 @04:41PM (#22438257)

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.

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Re:The $35 Raspberry Pi 4 now comes with double the RAM by opless on Thursday February 27, 2020 @08:38PM (#22439829)

I'll give it another go this coming week then!

Cheers!

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Re:The $35 Raspberry Pi 4 now comes with double the RAM by colechristensen on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:35PM (#22436239)

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

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