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Passively cooled system - N100 or Pi 5? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by monovergent@lemmy.ml to c/hardware@lemmy.ml

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Leaning heavily towards the Lattepanda Mu with Intel N100, but also considering the Raspberry Pi 5 compute module as an alternative. Main reason for the preference is performance. But does that still hold up if passively cooled? I've read that the N100 doesn't really reach its full potential at its 6 W TDP, instead often drawing around 15 W during benchmarks. All of the benchmarks I've come across are for an actively-cooled setup.

I'm planning on a heatsink that will be open to ambient air and not much larger than the compute module itself, maybe 6x12x1 cm. How much do those extra watts beyond the TDP matter to the performance of an Intel CPU?

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[–] glitching@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

take a look at busted-up laptops. you can get competent 4/6-core machines with busted screens/keyboard/etc which makes them useless in the real world in the sub-$100 region. way better performance, storage options, connectivity, antennas, power brick included, etc., and you don't need to dick around with "hats" and arm64 packages and the like.