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Raspberry Pi 4 Heat Generation

Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2019 10:54 am
by johniot
Hi,

I would like to run wtware on the Raspberry Pi 4 (I dont currently have a Raspberry Pi 4).

I was wondering what everyone's experience has been with the heat generated by the Pi4 while running wtware? Does it require active cooling? or would I be able to get away with using only passive cooling for it?

Thank you,
John

Re: Raspberry Pi 4 Heat Generation

Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:01 pm
by akatik
What is "run wtware"?
To type text in Word, passive cooling is enough.
To watch youtube fullscreen, active cooling is not enough.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4 Heat Generation

Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2019 6:13 pm
by johniot
Thank you for your response.

By "run WTware", I mean to run it as an OS on the RPi4, as you would expect for RDP. Mostly for administrative office tasks - email, documents, accounting, etc.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4 Heat Generation

Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2019 6:07 am
by akatik
Noone tells you is your administrative office task between "typing in Word" (which works without cooling) and "fullscreen youtube" (which will trotle even with active cooling). Try it with passive cooling. Install new bootloader, "Recovery" section on official site: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ People write it lowers temperature a little.