“So far very pleased. Surprisingly straightforward to build an M.2 booting machine, though do not know why they did not just put an M.2 slot on the back!”
“The installation of the PiOS follows the same methodolgy as previous models. The Pi5 has a special installation version available and I used that to set it up. It gets hot so you will need a heatsink and I used the solid aluminium block type as I wanted it to be quiet. I haven't applied it to anything specific yet so I don't know how it will perform but it has to be faster than all the others right?”
“This 8GB Pi5 runs rings around a heavily overclocked Pi4B! I've set it up as a desktop PC replacement with a Pimoroni NVMe Base and Lexar 1TB NM790 SSD (870MB/s reads!). It handles everything I do with ease except for really heavy duty tasks like AAA gaming and video conversion.
I couldn't be happier, and The PiHut got it out to me in two days too. Thank you.”
