Raspberry Pi 4 8GB Starter Kit By LABISTS - Is It Worth Buying?

hey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a raspberry pi 4 8 gigabyte model starter kit from lavis now you can pick this up on amazon for around 120 and the raspberry pi for eight gigabyte model is around 75 by itself so i wanted to see if this would really be worth it this kit supposedly comes with everything we need to get up and running with a raspberry pi 4 from a case heat sink hdmi cables usb type c and even a 32 gigabyte micro sd card flash with raspbian or raspberry pi os as it's known now so in this video we're going to do a quick unboxing we'll do an assembly i'll go ahead and boot this up and i'll let you know if it's going to be worth the price or not so first things first right off the top we have the raspberry pi 4 8 gigabyte model here we'll get a little deeper comes with a pretty hefty little manual i guess it has the assembly instructions and it also includes some different raspberry pi projects and underneath this little flap here we have the rest of the kit looks like we have our usb type-c 5 volt 3 amp power supply and this does have a switch on the cable so you can turn the power on and off right there if you'd like to two hdmi cables for the raspberry pi 4 we have micro hdmi on one side and full size on the other we also get the red and white labis pi 4 case and actually this thing looks pretty cool it's just a basic plastic case with some acrylic on the top but i think it looks pretty neat next up we have this beefy aluminum heatsink with dual fans this thing will definitely allow us to overclock our raspberry pi to the maximum and keep it there all day we get a screwdriver to assemble everything and our 32 gigabyte micro sd card this is a sandisk card with raspbian pre-installed otherwise known as raspberry pi os they also include a micro sd card reader in case you want to flash a different operating system to that included card so far everything's looking pretty nice we got our raspberry pi our case and our power supply here does have that switch 5 volt 3 amp usb type c should give us plenty of power for the pi 4. dual micro hdmi cables but the one thing i'm really digging here is this heatsink dual rgb fans it is fully aluminum and this sits right on top of the pi it'll make contact with the cpu the ram and the usb controller chip to keep that pie cool even at the stock clocks this would be great to have but seeing how beefy it is we'll definitely be able to overclock with this assembly on this kit is super easy and one thing i noticed was the ventilation up top here with the included case but they also provide one that's totally clean if you don't like those ventilation holes here on the plastic case that's included you can always swap it out but i personally like the way the design is set up and it's definitely going to allow some air in there to that heat sink so first things first we need to get the pi on box now the box itself does say this is an eight gigabyte model but another way to tell is to take a look at the ram chip and if it says d9 zcl you know it's the eight gigabyte model and this one here definitely contains eight gigs of ram okay so the heatsink here is actually just gonna sit right on top of the raspberry pi inside of the case and your screws are going to go through the heatsink mounting holes through the raspberry pi and hold everything inside of the case but you do want to install this properly and they have included these little thermal pads we have three of them here they're a little tedious to peel off so i'm going to do this off camera but i do need to add one to the cpu the ram chip and the usb controller on the raspberry pi 4. all right so i've got the thermal conductive pads in place cpu ram chip and the usb controller with these little pads they are covered with both sides they have plastic on each side make sure you peel both sides off and instead of adding them to the heatsink i've just placed them on the pie so i know they're going to be in the correct location when i put that heat sink down you're just going to put a little bit of angle on it when you're putting it in here and just line up that 3.5 millimeter audio jack looks like it sits in here really nicely all of my ports are lining up now we need to throw that heat sink in here it only goes one way it's going to sit right on top of the raspberry pi and you're going to grab the included screws they're going to go through the heat sink through the raspberry pi mounting holes and into the case these are not threaded so you will have to put a little bit of pressure on it just snug them down but don't over tighten them and we need to do this on all four corners of the raspberry pi so i've just snuck down all four corners here and this is going to push that heatsink down on the raspberry pi and in turn it's also going to keep the raspberry pi and heatsink mounted inside of the case now what i've done for the fans is just route the wires to make it look a little cleaner and it's really easy to plug these in we're going to go 5 volt and ground and here's a little on-screen diagram for that but it's also included in the instructions with the kit and the last thing that's left to do for the assembly is just pop the top right on the case it's just got some clips on it snaps right on you'll know it's on there always just double check that all of my ports are lining up and now it's time to insert the sd card into the raspberry pi 4 and we have full access to that micro sd card slot on the bottom i'm going to go ahead grab a monitor keyboard and we'll get this booted up for the first time all right so i've got my keyboard mouse and monitor set up i'm gonna plug in my hdmi if you're using a single monitor with the raspberry pi 4 plug the hdmi into the one that's closest to the usb type c also plug in my power here make sure i got my keyboard and everything plugged in and i'll turn the switch on as you can see these fans have lit up they're rgb so they will change color i mean there's no way to adjust it but it'll constantly be cycling through color just adds a little more to this case and by the way if you want to shut the raspberry pi 4 down don't just hit the button on the power supply make sure you shut it down through software you can just go to the start menu and shut down then you can turn that power off you don't want to corrupt the sd card so the first thing i'm noticing here is a little bit of fan noise and that's because we're hooked up to 5 volts this is going to give us the maximum performance that these little fans can put out but we can swap this over to 3.3 volts just by switching that positive to a different gpio pin and it's going to make this case almost completely silent so all you're going to do is keep that black wire the ground on the ground and move the red wire over to the 3 volt pin on the raspberry pi 4. so far so good this has been working just fine like a raspberry pi 4 should but i really want to see how this heatsink cools inside of this case i've left it at 3.3 volt so we have a very quiet operation here and i'm running a little test called stressberry what this is going to do is max out that cpu all four cores for around 10 minutes it's going to give me some readings we're going to do it at the stock clocks which is 1.5 gigahertz then i'm going to overclock the raspberry pi to 2.1 and see if we can still keep it under that thermal threshold which is 85 degrees celsius because when the raspberry pi hits that temperature it will underclock the cpu and you'll lose a lot of performance so once this is finished i'm going to create a little comparison chart and just see how well this does cool at the stock clocks versus overclocked all right so the results are in stock clocks of 1.5 gigahertz we hit a max of 58.4 degrees celsius way under that thermal throttle and with the overclock of 2.1 gigahertz we hit a maximum of 68.7 degrees celsius much higher than stock but as expected because we have that much higher overclock and keep in mind we had the fans at the silent setting 3.3 volts so if you don't mind a little bit of fan noise you can bump this up to 5 volts and get better cooling than this but either way you look at it this still keeps the pi under that thermal threshold even overclocked to 2.1 gigahertz so is this kit worth picking up if you're in the market for a raspberry pi 4 8 gigabyte model personally i really do think so over on the left hand side i've just put together a do-it-yourself kit from amazon i've got the cheapest stuff with free shipping using prime here the kit we took a look at in this video goes for 119.97 on amazon free shipping if you have prime and as i'm making this video it also has that five percent off deal if you go to amazon you can click on and get five percent off when it's in your basket so it's around 114. and piecing something like this together on amazon using the cheapest stuff with prime shipping 123.49 and the plastic case i found really doesn't even have ventilation on it so yeah i mean if you're new to the raspberry pi 4 and you've been looking to pick up an 8 gigabyte model i'd say that this kit is totally worth it it's got a quality power supply the hdmi cables seem fine the case is plastic but it does come with that nice cooler it's not as great as something like the argon one case but you really can't complain for the price here but that's pretty much it for this one really appreciate you watching if you're interested in picking up one of these starter kits either the eight gigabyte model four gigabyte or two i'll leave some links in the description if you have any questions let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching

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Id: 6lGpE9DipTw

Length: 9min 7sec (547 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 30 2020

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[u/acidbat101]

Can you run the tencent emulator on windows on the 8gig version and play pubg mobile on it?