Raspberry Pi 5

[Dawnshine Wonder 2,692]

 

I got one of these and managed a stable overclock of 2.6ghz on CPU, no voltage increase. Was on 2.8ghz but that crashed it, so I had to dial it back a little.

 I did this with a setup that uses a passive cooler, making the system silent, doesn't get particularly hot either. I may just use this for my Magni Unity headphone amp.

 

While it is hardly a powerhouse compared to the numerous other options out there, at the price you'd pay for this thing, you could do much worse. What it does well? it's compact and cheap. It's not terrible, but you do get what you pay for, just know the limits of it before you consider buying one of these. You also won't be running apps exclusively designed for x86 on this without emulation, either.

 

[Pentium100 2,294]

I only use raspberries as microcontrollers with Ethernet connection and Linux or tiny servers, so I'm OK with the slow ones, as long as they do not get too hot. 

Edited March 11 by Pentium100

[Dawnshine Wonder 2,692]

16 minutes ago, Pentium100 said:

I only use raspberries as microcontrollers with Ethernet connection and Linux or tiny servers, so I'm OK with the slow ones, as long as they do not get too hot. 

I could have used Ubuntu with mine but Raspberry Pi OS appeared to be the more optimized OS for it so I chose that instead. Both are Linux distros, it's just that Pi OS is a variant of Debian. I like it though, Kodi works fine on it. I was surprised to see how efficient Chromium web browser was, and with the right extensions installed, Youtube doesn't lag either. I find capping them to 720p/30 prevents the videos from dropping too many frames. I would prefer it if better was possible, but it's probably going to take a couple more revisions of the Pi before we get to that point.

[Pentium100 2,294]

I use Debian (it was called raspbian for the Pi, but maybe it is changed) without GUI. I also use Debian for most of my other servers.

Doesn't Raspberry Pi have hardware video decoding? IIRC it should play videos normally because of that, but maybe a browser cannot use the decoder or something. I have only tried playing video on a Pi 2, but on that you need to pay extra to unlock the decoders, I did not, so it did not play video well. Other than that one attempt, I have not tried playing video on a Pi. 

[Dawnshine Wonder 2,692]

1 minute ago, Pentium100 said:

I use Debian (it was called raspbian for the Pi, but maybe it is changed) without GUI. I also use Debian for most of my other servers.

Doesn't Raspberry Pi have hardware video decoding? IIRC it should play videos normally because of that, but maybe a browser cannot use the decoder or something. I have only tried playing video on a Pi 2, but on that you need to pay extra to unlock the decoders, I did not, so it did not play video well. Other than that one attempt, I have not tried playing video on a Pi. 

it's supposed to, you're probably right about that, for some reason video playback acts up when you try to use Youtube with a web browser. But people don't report of these problems occurring otherwise, not even in Kodi. I would assume under the right conditions, if it does use hardware acceleration, then yes, 1080p 60fps playback should be flawless, like with bluray for instance, unfortunately it seems Chromium relies on software decoding, which taxes the CPU more. Funny you say that because on Amazon video when I watch movies, none of these problems seem to manifest.

[Astralshy 29,143]

Ive used some for electronic projects or small servers. In my experience ArchLinux worked very well. I had no GUI and just used remote ssh access for them.

One I also tried to use one of them (I think it was a RP3) for my mother as a Desktop replacement. It even wasn't too bad but it definitely had too little power for watching yotube vids.