[Nottingham] Toasty Pi

[Martin]

Jason,

Yep, an unadorned RasPi4 can too easily get up to thermal limiting
throttling hot...


The ever enthusiastic Phoronix ran some heatsink benchmarks over on:

Cooling The Raspberry Pi 4 With The Fan SHIM & FLIRC For Better Performance
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=raspberrypi-4-cooling&num=1

CooliPi 4B Is The Best Raspberry Pi 4 Heatsink We Have Tested Yet
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=raspberrypi-4-coolipi&num=1

See also:

Initial Raspberry Pi 4 Performance Benchmarks
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=raspberry-pi4-benchmarks&num=1


A few more for cooling are:

Cool Cases for the Hot Raspberry Pi 4
https://www.martinrowan.co.uk/2019/08/cool-cases-for-the-hot-raspberry-pi-4/

Group test: Best Raspberry Pi 4 thermal cases tested and ranked
https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/articles/group-test-best-raspberry-pi-4-thermal-cases-tested-and-ranked


I've gone for one of the Pimoroni Aluminium Heatsinks as a first test:
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/aluminium-heatsink-case-for-raspberry-pi-4


In brief, in lieu of a heatsink, any small forced airflow helps greatly!

Stay cool!! :-)

Cheers,
Martin



On 28/06/2020 22:59, Jason via Nottingham wrote:
> Found out how to enable emulation in Kodi Leia 18. As I run OSMC
> everything was installed, it just needed enabled, along with a few
> dependencies added and controller config.
> 
> First thing, amazeballs. Total amazeballs. With the Internet Archive
> Games Library installed you can grab anything from there and it just
> runs (bit of a glitch with pre-downloading, it doesn't realise you've
> done it but I am sure that can be sorted).
> 
> The heat though! Yikes! 82°C emulating a SNES, and that's **with**
> heatsinks! I need a fan.
> 
> Irony? I just dropped wedge on a Pi4 with PiHut.
> 
> KDE Plasma Big Screen, here I come!
> 
> J.
> -- 
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>