“What a journey to get this Pi 5 board! Not much to complain about, except for when this is your first Pi 5 and you're looking for performance, the stock cooler may not be the best option, since it relies on a lot of gap filler and does not contact all chips equally.”
“It is good improvement over older boards (thumbs up for power button, UART port, PCIe, cooler port, performance...), I miss audio connector, HDMI connectors are too close to each other and power plug (some cable reductions are not usable). It definitely needs active cooler, which is really hot also when normally used.”
“I installed the PI5 8GB on a self-made box in the back of an old TV with a pimorono autofocus camera.
Everything works very well. This way I assembled a powerful pc with a nice webcam.”
