My experience of ordering direct from Argon40 hasn’t been the best so far and I wouldn’t be surprised if I’m whacked for customs. Waiting for Pi Hut is definitely the sensible option.
Raspberry Pi 5 Announced!
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My experience of ordering direct from Argon40 hasn’t been the best so far and I wouldn’t be surprised if I’m whacked for customs. Waiting for Pi Hut is definitely the sensible option.
Man of Honour
I've ordered an Argon NEO Case from Pimoroni for now; will just order an NVME base when available but will also be Ordering an Argon One when available for my other Pi5; ideally I'd like a Argon EON Pi NAS case but its not available for the 5 yet!
Soldato
Posted this in the stock market thread, but thought some might have a interest here too..
Raspberry Pi IPO
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Raspberry Pi IPO
Raspberry Pi serves up another slice of IPO plans
Bankers appointed, but CEO insists nothing will change while he's in charge
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Man of Honour
Had in stock email this evening and ordered.
Man of Honour
Thanks! Just ordered! An Argon One and a a Neo; already picked up a Neo without the NVME slot so might just swap them!
That should do my RP5 case needs for a while (at least until they decide to "RP5" the Eon NAS case!
Soldato
Well the ARM crypto extensions have made it into the new SoC so this could be improved somewhat substantially
My Argon40 Neo NVMe case turned up yesterday.
As I said previously, I ordered direct with Argon in China and would not recommend versus ordering from Pi Hut. I saved 87p but their communication is non-existent. Let’s hope the case works otherwise I’m stuffed.
As I said previously, I ordered direct with Argon in China and would not recommend versus ordering from Pi Hut. I saved 87p but their communication is non-existent. Let’s hope the case works otherwise I’m stuffed.
Man of Honour
I'm using VPN on my Pi5 in two ways - NordVPN via OpenVPN for downloading and its rapid; I'm also using it as a Wireguard Server for getting connected when I'm out and about (on a 1Gig Fibre) and I'm not too impressed with the speed but its more than fast enough for using the terminal, or tinkering with the setup or using the connection o RDP into my Windows PC.
Soldato
Yeah, I don’t believe Wireguard will benefit from any acceleration on the Pi 5 while OpenVPN (when configured to use AES) should be able to offload the crypto
Man of Honour
Interesting; I was happy enough with OpenVPN for my Remote VPN but I was forced to switching to WireGuard when I was using Unraid; I might try OpenVPN for it again and see if I get a noticeably different performance for Remote Access
The PCI ribbon on the Argon Neo 5 is fiddly as hell. The instructions show to connect it to the Raspberry Pi first and then the base. I ended up having to do it the other way around as the connector on the base is way harder to get the ribbon into all the way.
It’s done though. Time to install Plex!
It’s done though. Time to install Plex!
Commissario
I've now moved my Pi5 from the office to my radio shack so that it's on a UPS and the fan in the official case is annoying me. It cycles on and off and although it's barely audible, it IS audible so I've ordered the passive FLIRC case. I hope it'll be reasonably effective otherwise I might end up with this.
that is a very sexy case. I've switched to active cooling on my 4 as passive kept getting saturated before the load had wound down.
Have you considered one of those tower coolers just without a fan?
Commissario
What sort do you mean?
Don
These sort of ridiculous things I think
ICE Tower CPU Cooler for Raspberry Pi 5
This ICE Tower Cooler is made specifically for Raspberry Pi 5, designed to keep the temperature of the board within optimal limits, ensuring stable and reliable performance (whilst looking awesome!). It consists of a tall tower-style heatsink with multiple aluminium fins and a high-quality fan...
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Commissario
Yuck
Commissario
It’s got a fan, I want fanless.
Love that case, a cluster of these would be jaw dropping to look at IMHO. Trouble is that price
