Re:8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75
by geerlingguy on Thursday May 28, 2020 @08:08AM
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I did an article on the topic after the Pi firmware update made the situation a lot better. A bare Pi is okay without a fan, but if you want it in a case, the Flirc case is your best option (IMO): https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2019/best-way-keep-your-co...
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Great article, thanks. The Flirc case looks good and for $15 it's an obvious buy.
Having just spent a bit north of $1k on a new CPU, RAM, and mobo for my desktop, I'm having a bit of sticker shock (in a good way) at how low these RPi prices are.
Re:8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75
by geerlingguy on Thursday May 28, 2020 @09:02PM
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A year or so later, you think back "how did I accumulate a box full of Raspberry Pis?" And "I had no idea I had this many power supplies!"
For my use case, I need access to the GPIO pins. The blurb on the Flirc says that access is possible but I don't see any opening. Can you confirm that GPIO access I possible?
I use this case: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/aluminium-heatsink-case-f...
Doesn't look as flashy as the Flirc case, but cooling performance is supposed to be similar and you can access all the pins.
The gpio access requires a header cable routed out a slot in the base of the case.
I have several pi in flirc cases, one is a pihole and one runs CI jobs (slowly) for PhotoStructure, and they don't get too hot even under sustained cpu load.
Flirc cases are great.