The Raspberry Pi 400 is Awesome! Review, Overclock, Emulation, Tear Down

hey what's going on guys is eta prime back here again today i am super excited because we're going to be taking a look at the all new raspberry pi 400. now if you're not familiar with this little unit the raspberry pi foundation recently released this and it's an all-in-one personal computer powered by the same cpu that's in the raspberry pi 4. given it's a different stepping and we do have a bit of an overclock right out of the box the pi 400 is actually sitting at 1.8 gigahertz as opposed to the 1.5 on the raspberry pi 4 but in the end when it all comes down to it basically what we have here is a keyboard with a raspberry pi 4 inside of it the one we're going to be taking a look at in this video is the kit version this goes for a hundred dollars it comes with the pi 400 power supply hdmi micro sd and a mouse for a hundred dollars and they also offer the pi 400 standalone version with no extra accessories 470. so like i mentioned i'm super excited about the pi 400 so in this video we're going to do a quick unboxing we're going to go over everything that comes with the kit go over the specs take a look at the unit i want to get into some testing with the operating system itself some emulation we're going to do some thermal testing and then by the end we're going to do a quick teardown to see what's inside of this unit so here it is the pi 400 at first glance looks just like the official raspberry pi keyboard but when we turn it around we have all of our ports and by the way this has all the ports that the raspberry pi 4 does minus one usb 2.0 port camera connector and display connector but we do have dual usb 3.0 and access to our 40 gpio pins on the rear and yeah this is definitely a sleek little personal computer so since i have the kit i do have a couple extra accessories to take a look at but like i mentioned they do sell this as a standalone pi 400 we have the power supply 3 amp 5 volt usb type c we also get the official raspberry pi mouse micro sd card reader the card itself is already in the pi 400 and it's a 16 gigabyte sand desk and they've also included the official raspberry pi user guide and if you do end up picking up one of these kits and it comes with this book here definitely take a look at it lots of great information in it and i've personally learned a lot from it and one last thing that is included with this kit a micro hdmi cable to full size hdmi so when you're looking at it from this side it looks like a normal official raspberry pi keyboard until we move around to the back now this is where all the magic happens with the pi 400 from the left to the right we have our 40 gpio pins now this is actually a little weird layout it's kind of recessed inside of here but it's still accessible next up we have our micro sd card slot dual micro hdmi ports usb type c for powering the unit up two usb 3.0 ports one usb 2.0 port and gig bay ethernet and when it comes to the specs of the pi 400 for the cpu we have the broadcom bcm 2711 it's a quad core cortex a72 cpu running at 1.8 gigahertz right out of the box and i'm sure we can do some overclocking with this unit 4 gigs of lp ddr4 3200 built in dual band 802.11 ac wi-fi so we can pick up that 5 gigahertz network and bluetooth 5.0 setup on the pi 400 is super simple especially if you picked up the kit because it already has the micro sd card pre-installed with raspberry pi os you're just going to plug in your hdmi mouse and power and this is actually the first raspberry pi from the factory with a built in power button be it it is a two key operation function and f10 and it also has a power led indicator so i'm gonna go ahead and let this boot up and on the initial boot up you have to choose your language and connect to your wi-fi network if you're not using ethernet but i'm connected to my 5 gigahertz network and the unit feels pretty snappy i mean it feels just like a raspberry pi 4. now out of the box the cpu is sitting at a higher clock speed than the raspberry pi 4 but in all actuality you really won't notice it browsing around using the unit itself but if we did run some benchmarks right now this would outperform the raspberry pi 4 at the stock clocks but we can always overclock the raspberry pi 4 and i'm pretty sure we're going to be able to overclock the pi 400. so i'm just going to head over here to youtube real quick and we'll check out some video playback right out of the box i haven't changed anything at all i haven't added any extra applications i will be doing that in a second but i just kind of wanted to get the stock experience out for you so we'll head over here to blender spring and i'm not going to up the resolution or anything like that now down the road hopefully the raspberry pi does get some better video playback from youtube but at 480p and 720 the pi 400 does a decent job with youtube video playback now when you start going up to 1080 and even 4k it's really gonna fall on its face and that's how it's been for a while for the raspberry pi 4. but a unit like this is perfectly suited for light work if you just use your computer to check your email facebook and watch an occasional youtube video here and there you could use the pi 400 or even a raspberry pi 4 for those everyday tasks and just because we're here and it does come pre-installed we'll go ahead and load up minecraft this is the raspberry pi 4 edition i can go full screen if i want to but i'm going to leave it just like this i really want to get into some extra applications that you can install from terminal and i will get into that in just a second but as you can see i mean minecraft raspberry pi edition is going to run fine on the pi 400. we're working with the same chip that's in the raspberry pi 4 so anything that works on that should work really well on the pi 400 so what i'm going to do now is install some of my favorite applications we're going to test out some pc gaming like half-life we're going to get into some emulation i want to overclock this we're going to run some thermal test and then we'll do a tear down so everything's gone off without a hitch so far i was able to install pi apps with a few applications that i want to test out here first up let's get into a little bit of pc gaming and we're going to test out half-life now this actually doesn't run on arm this is using box 86 in the background and i'm at the stock clocks here we'll go with half-life we should be able to run this at around 70 fps and i totally forgot that this doesn't carry my saves over from steam on windows but uh this is just the beginning here i've done a full video on getting this up and running and it runs just as well on the pi 400 as it did on the raspberry pi 4. the pi 400 is also going to work great for emulation it's going to perform just like the raspberry pi 4 does and luckily we do have a really good dreamcast emulator that works on the raspberry pi 4. this is redream so we can get full speed dreamcast emulation out of this and i just have a bluetooth controller connected through raspberry pi os so the next thing i wanted to do was test out the thermals on the pi 400. i personally use stressberry what this does is stresses out the cpu for 10 minutes straight all four cores and then by the end of these runs i can actually create an easy to read graph i've already run it at the stock clocks which is 1.8 and it did an amazing job with no active cooling this is all passively cooled and now i'm overclocked to 2.2 with a cpu over voltage of 6 and i think the pi 400 is also going to handle this so as soon as i'm finished with the 2.2 gigahertz overclock test i can create a quick chart and we can see how the thermal's dead at the stock clocks versus an overclock and it did absolutely amazing at the stop clocks and even overclocked to 2.2 gigahertz i would not be opposed to running this at 2.2 all the time as you can see here at the stock clocks maximum we reached after 10 minutes was 53 degrees celsius and overclocked to 2.2 57 degrees celsius this is actually beating out a lot of the passively cooled cases that i've tested on my channel for the raspberry pi 4 so cooling on this is definitely not an issue now with seeing that great cooling performance of the pi 400 i want to tear this down and see what they have in here this has no external screws on it it uses a clip system and they are a bit tricky to get out but i have this little plastic spudger here and with a little bit of work i should be able to unclip the top and the bottom here and get inside of this thing and here it is looks like the keyboard is connected with the single ribbon cable here and you might already notice it but there's a massive heat shield here let me go ahead and pull this keyboard off and basically that's all it is the keyboard itself so yeah this is why the pi 40 stays so cool even overclocked to 2.2 gigahertz we have this massive heat shield slash heatsink here it does have four screws in it and it should pull right up off of the main board so i'm gonna grab my screwdriver and get this off it's definitely a bit hard to pry off of here i believe it's stuck to the heat sink with a thermal adhesive pad and yeah there it is i mean this is a lot of metal to cool that little cpu so that's why we were getting really good temps like i said i wouldn't mind running this at 2.2 all day long and not worrying about it overheating that's a lot of metal for this thing it's definitely using more metal than some of the cases that i've tested here but this is it this is the main board inside of the pi 40. again no screws here we have two clips and we should be able to slide this right out so we can take a closer look and if you ever do take one of these apart make sure you remove your micro sd card before you do it i didn't and luckily i didn't break anything but yeah i think this is an ingenious design and as you can see they just didn't take a keyboard and throw a raspberry pi 4 inside of it this is a totally custom pcb so here's our cpu and ram module 4 gigs of ddr4 3200 and the broadcom bcm 2711 and the cpu is actually a newer revision of the 2711 and i think that's why we were able to get a little bit of a higher overclock than we can on most raspberry pi 4s but i would suspect that this will be the chip coming in the newer pi 4s when they produce more so yeah i love the layout of this new board we have all the ports on one side and i suspect that there will be some people out there that buy a pi 400 and tear this right out to put it in one of their projects but yeah there's really not much to it we have the main board the bottom half of the shell the heatsink slash heat shield and the keyboard itself and these just stack right on top of each other and clip together and real quick here's a size comparison between the raspberry pi 4 and the main board that comes in the pi 400 so after spending a lot of time with the pi 400 i'm a big fan of it and i really do think it's worth seventy dollars if you buy the standalone version and if you don't already have everything to go with this the micro hdmi power supply micro sd card a hundred bucks isn't looking bad either this is an all-in-one personal pc and if you do buy the kit all you really need to do is add a monitor or a tv now i know there are some people out there that aren't going to like the form factor of this but keep in mind they're not going to stop making the raspberry pi 4 and i won't stop using the raspberry pi 4 but to tell you the truth i will probably use this pi 400 more than i will with a raspberry pi 4 when it doesn't come to projects when i want to check out new desktop operating systems and things like that i'll probably just grab the pi 400 but doesn't offer the form factor or the versatility of a raspberry pi so you might always want one of these on backup but that's going to wrap it up for this video definitely keep an eye out on the channel because i do have a couple more videos coming up with the pi 400 i got some modification ideas that i want to get out of the way and there's just a lot of stuff that i want to test with this new unit so if there's anything specific you want to see running on the pi 400 just let me know in the comments below but like always thanks for watching you

Channel: ETA PRIME

Views: 927,466

Rating: 4.9327092 out of 5

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Id: h86D_6yh1nk

Length: 11min 44sec (704 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 06 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/acetaminophenpt]

It reminds me the old school computers where the computer itself was inside the keyboard 🙂

[u/ProDigit]

Rest of the world, like nvidia gpus, will have to wait...