Re: What do I need to go with a Pi 4

On 14/04/2024 20:11, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 14/04/2024 19:51, druck wrote:

The Pi 4B will definitely throttle with only a ventilated case if it
is anything other than sitting idle all the time.

I am not interested in proof by assertion
I had mine up to 130% on 'top' and it never made more than 76°C

So you were only using 1 and a bit cores, hardly taxing it.

I don't see the point of letting it throttling when an inexpensive fan
will keep it at full speed under any load.

I question that it will in fact throttle.

If you do something which uses multiple cores it will.

Like so much 'everybody knows'  when you look at it it is in fact
'everyone believes because people selling fans told them so.

I'm telling you so, and I'm not selling you a fan, although I do have a
bridge going spare if you don't believe that.

The whole point of ARM is its lower power and lack of need for forced
cooling

That might have been the case for a Pi 1 or 2, 3 and 3+s would throttle
if pushed hard enough, 4s and 5s will easily.

---druck