Raspberry Pi 5 4GB

Rasberry Pi are fun to build and experiment with and the Raspberry Pi 5 4gb is the perfect balance of performance and cost. Got a TFT touch screen, and armor lite heatsink on this running the Rasbian 64 bit version. Works great!

As mentioned in many online articles, an amazing upgrade from the 4.Made an audio/video server, and it fully supports X.265 and Dolby 5.1 and all video formats as well as FLAC audio.Better than my Roku Ultra 4K, which cannot play many of the Audio/Video format mixtures.Note I also bought a Pironman 5 NVMe M.2 SSD PCIe Mini PC Case, which is also awesome to complete the server package. I am adding a USB Dongle SDR radio next....

So far so good in terms of up and running fairly quickly. Was able to use my own mini SD card and download the OS image onto it. Seems to have very good instructions on how to login remotely using the Raspberry Pi built in software that comes with the OS "rpi-connect" to login from pretty much anywhere and get the virtual desktop on your Windows or Linux Desktop. While the OS is Linux, which I like, you get excellent tutorials for starting out. The size is very small which is convenient for future projects. I did get the 4GB memory version its enough for most projects. I also purchased the Freenove Starter kit to begin experimenting with the lights, servos, switches just for fun and all of this will be driven by the Raspberry Pi 5. Happy with the product thus far!!

I like the addition of a PCIe connector. It allowed use of an inexpensive NVMe board for fast boots and read/write operations. The PD power negotiation thing is something to be aware of, both in terms of the power supply used and the USB cable used for the power connection. I opted for a power expansion board that includes both voltage regulation and PD power negotiation, providing negotiated 5V 5A power from 7v - 24v sources. The board I used is the Yahboom PD Power Expansion Board, amazon item: B0D3XMLMGW.The attached picturs show my Pi 5 board with both the NVMe and power expansion boards added top and bottom. You can also see the OEM style active cooler, which runs as needed and is very quiet.

Absolutely love it, I've had it now for a bit and I absolutely love it. I settled in running Home Assistant operating system and it's ran flausly, well for the exception of the person putting the input i to it. I'll be buying more of these as they are absolutely blast if your into DIY electronics and gadgets

The best for the money. Your imagination is the ceiling

I give 5 stars because it’s powerful, compact, and perfect for learning or building cool projects. I loved setting up a media server with it.

Buy the 8gb if you want to run multiple apps. I also use poe and wanted nvme drive support (which needs 2 hats). It’s doable but I had to modify both hats to use the nvme cable because otherwise it would have been too short.Otherwise love the device.