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		908B64B197 on Nov 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC > Fun fact: the Pi 400 (and Compute Module 4) both have newer revisions of the BCM2711 SoC (C0 instead of B0), and that's part of the reason the clock speed is higher on the Pi 400 (1.8 GHz) than on the regular Pi 4 model B (1.5 GHz)—the newer revision apparently handles faster clocks and scaling with less heat than the older revision. Reading your article > the Pi 400 didn't overheat even when I was running it with an overclock to 2.147 GHz, the maximum it allows currently This only makes me wish they sold an 800 version with 8 GB of RAM, just like the Pi 4.

happycube on Nov 2, 2020 [–]

... and a mechanical keyboard, to complete the possibly unintentional Atari reference.

(Folklore says the original product plan had the Atari 400 come with 4K of RAM, and the 800 8K... and then memory got cheaper by release.)

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