Fwiw the Pi5 is like the Pi4 in that it doesn’t actually need active cooling, but youll enjoy better sustained performance if you stick a heatsink on it.
If it was required out of the box, Raspberry Pi wouldn’t be selling it separately
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Does the orange pi 5 also require active cooling? That’s one of my bigger hangouts about the RPi5.
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Fwiw the Pi5 is like the Pi4 in that it doesn’t actually need active cooling, but youll enjoy better sustained performance if you stick a heatsink on it.
If it was required out of the box, Raspberry Pi wouldn’t be selling it separately