There was a Debian 9.3 point release on the weekend so a bunch of fixes in there. Yesterday also had a heap of firmware updates and a new kernel, presumably to support the 3B+.
Grats on first new RPi! I ordered one from Newark. Waiting for confirmation on shipment. Biting nails worried it will be back ordered.
Thought I would post my find of Enzotech copper heat sinks, the tall GPU memory ones I use as in avatar pic. I seem to remember problems finding them in the past. I like them better than the short and/or aluminum ones.
Have wanted better networking on a RPi as well as 2 gig memory for a networking project I want to do. This will do fine. Half of what you want is better than none. Will run E@H on it of course but maybe only 2 or 3 at a time, depends on memory usage of other things running.
Grats on first new RPi! I ordered one from Newark. Waiting for confirmation on shipment. Biting nails worried it will be back ordered.
Thought I would post my find of Enzotech copper heat sinks, the tall GPU memory ones I use as in avatar pic. I seem to remember problems finding them in the past. I like them better than the short and/or aluminum ones.
Have wanted better networking on a RPi as well as 2 gig memory for a networking project I want to do. This will do fine. Half of what you want is better than none. Will run E@H on it of course but maybe only 2 or 3 at a time, depends on memory usage of other things running.
Always exciting to get a new RPi!
Cheers!!
Thanks.
I ordered them yesterday and they arrived today. They have already gone out of stock from the distributor.
I call this an incremental update rather than a whole new Pi. Its a bit faster (1.4GHz instead or 1.2GHz), same memory and video core as before and improved networking but still not a gigabit.
The heatsinks you can buy direct from enzotech. If you are buying from enzotech directly the 8 pack is called the BMR-C1 which isn't listed on their web site, you have to ask their customer service people for it. Their web site is enzotechnology.com
The first one I simply updated the firmware on the Pi3B, shut it down swapped the Pi3B+ into the old case, put the old SD card into it and off it went. Its a proxy and NTP server.
With the 2nd one I installed Stretch-Lite (released on the 13th of March) so it starts off with a clean slate. Its the one I linked to above. Its looking like it will be about 10 hours a BRP4 work unit using the 1.47 project supplied app. The 3B's have been taking about 11 hours 45 minutes.
I call this an incremental update rather than a whole new Pi. Its a bit faster (1.4GHz instead or 1.2GHz), same memory and video core as before and improved networking but still not a gigabit.
They also improved the voltage-suppy. Rather than using individual LDO's for the different voltages, they now use a PMU. So power consumtion should be less than the original PI3. Which is a nice upgrade, especially for Boinc use. Power consumtion of the old PI3 was quite high compared to other A53 based SBCs.
Would be nice if you could do some measurements and share the results with us?
Would be nice if you could do some measurements and share the results with us?
I read in one of the reviews that they thought the new SoC would use an additional 200ma because of the speed increase, that may have been offset by the new power circuitry.
All I have is one of those power point meters. I suppose I could plug a Pi3B into its own power brick, get some readings off it and repeat for a Pi3B+ but I wouldn’t consider it particularly accurate.
All of my Pis are plugged into USB chargers and running multiple devices off the one charger.
I have got four of Pi3B+ crunching away now, plus the support node. Ran out of heatsinks so that is all I can do at the moment. The four have replaced existing Pi3B’s so its the same number of Pis crunching (10 of them).
I am still waiting on heatsinks to swap the 3B’s out. Given I have 3 of the cases and they hold 4 Pis each I suppose I shout bump the farm up to 12 Pi3B+.
According to the spec's, PoE
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According to the spec's, PoE still requires the PoE-HAT
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And we still got only 1GB of slow DDR2-Memory. Would be nice to get at least DDR3.
c24913 wrote:And we still got
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And 2GB of it
MarksRpiCluster
There was a Debian 9.3 point
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There was a Debian 9.3 point release on the weekend so a bunch of fixes in there. Yesterday also had a heap of firmware updates and a new kernel, presumably to support the 3B+.
MarksRpiCluster
First 3B+ off and running.
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First 3B+ off and running. Its this host
And here are the benchmark results from a 3B and the 3B+
Rpi 3B
Number of CPUs: 4
975 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
15364 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
Rpi 3B+
Number of CPUs: 4
1123 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
17834 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
MarksRpiCluster
Grats on first new RPi! I
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Grats on first new RPi! I ordered one from Newark. Waiting for confirmation on shipment. Biting nails worried it will be back ordered.
Thought I would post my find of Enzotech copper heat sinks, the tall GPU memory ones I use as in avatar pic. I seem to remember problems finding them in the past. I like them better than the short and/or aluminum ones.
https://smile.amazon.com/Enzotech-Graphics-Passive-Copper-8-pack/dp/B002BWXW6E/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1521185940&sr=1-1&keywords=enzotech+heatsink
Have wanted better networking on a RPi as well as 2 gig memory for a networking project I want to do. This will do fine. Half of what you want is better than none. Will run E@H on it of course but maybe only 2 or 3 at a time, depends on memory usage of other things running.
Always exciting to get a new RPi!
Cheers!!
PG3.14 wrote:Grats on first
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Thanks.
I ordered them yesterday and they arrived today. They have already gone out of stock from the distributor.
I call this an incremental update rather than a whole new Pi. Its a bit faster (1.4GHz instead or 1.2GHz), same memory and video core as before and improved networking but still not a gigabit.
The heatsinks you can buy direct from enzotech. If you are buying from enzotech directly the 8 pack is called the BMR-C1 which isn't listed on their web site, you have to ask their customer service people for it. Their web site is enzotechnology.com
The first one I simply updated the firmware on the Pi3B, shut it down swapped the Pi3B+ into the old case, put the old SD card into it and off it went. Its a proxy and NTP server.
With the 2nd one I installed Stretch-Lite (released on the 13th of March) so it starts off with a clean slate. Its the one I linked to above. Its looking like it will be about 10 hours a BRP4 work unit using the 1.47 project supplied app. The 3B's have been taking about 11 hours 45 minutes.
MarksRpiCluster
PorkyPies wrote:I call this
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They also improved the voltage-suppy. Rather than using individual LDO's for the different voltages, they now use a PMU. So power consumtion should be less than the original PI3. Which is a nice upgrade, especially for Boinc use. Power consumtion of the old PI3 was quite high compared to other A53 based SBCs.
Would be nice if you could do some measurements and share the results with us?
c24913 wrote:Would be nice if
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I read in one of the reviews that they thought the new SoC would use an additional 200ma because of the speed increase, that may have been offset by the new power circuitry.
All I have is one of those power point meters. I suppose I could plug a Pi3B into its own power brick, get some readings off it and repeat for a Pi3B+ but I wouldn’t consider it particularly accurate.
All of my Pis are plugged into USB chargers and running multiple devices off the one charger.
I have got four of Pi3B+ crunching away now, plus the support node. Ran out of heatsinks so that is all I can do at the moment. The four have replaced existing Pi3B’s so its the same number of Pis crunching (10 of them).
MarksRpiCluster
I finally got the last part I
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I finally got the last part I needed for the Pi^4 case Mk II. Pictures can be found at http://marksrpicluster.blogspot.com.au/2018/03/pi4-case-mk-ii.html
I am still waiting on heatsinks to swap the 3B’s out. Given I have 3 of the cases and they hold 4 Pis each I suppose I shout bump the farm up to 12 Pi3B+.
MarksRpiCluster
Milestones YesterdayRaspberry
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Milestones Yesterday
Raspberry Pi passed 17,000,000
http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=team&proj=eah&team=14502