Can the NEW Raspberry Pi 5 Replace Your Desktop?!

In this video we will explore the new Raspberry Pi 5 and whether it can replace your desktop pc.

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0:00 Intro
0:50 The Build
2:06 Rpi 5 For Dummies
4:35 Benchmarks
6:05 Accessories
6:52 Final Thoughts

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[taurussel]

Great video! I appreciate the research on the accessories. I love the stand and the sata usb cable. It looks cool. I’m going to get those.

[LivingLinux]

I don't think the the Pi 5 is a replacement for a Chromebook, or it has to be a very old Chromebook, like my Samsung Chromebook Plus with Rockchip RK3399. The Pi 5 only has hardware video decoding for h265, not for VP9. That means that YouTube playback will be limited on the Pi 5.

[deanlawson]

Good to see a video on the Pi-5 overall, and some good coverage of interfacing with some add-ons and accessories. +1 Subscriber.

[eltecnico]

Do you think the remote PC experience is good with the raspberry pi? I want to build a personal gaming server.

[smk]

Thanks for the great review, seems like a very nice upgrade compared to the RPi4. @4:42 shouldn't you be saying 'Megabits per second'?

[perrymcclusky]

I would suspect that it would have performed better using the Raspberry Pi OS. That seems to be the case on my Raspberry Pi 4. Impressive Raspberry Pi 5 set up you have there!

[ericelliott]

Hi Mike, I have been wondering about all this Raspberry Pi stuff I have been hearing about for years. I have been thinking about building a Pi thing for audio such as a streamer for a long time, but the whole idea scares me. I know nothing about programing and such. I just saw your previous video on building your streamer and it doesn't look that scary now. One just plugs this and that in and struggles with the software sadly, but after that it is done. That said, I don't like that screen. It is a great idea and I would want something like it, but without all the glitches and function problems. I would not know the difference between Raspberry versions if you beat them into me.

As for a Raspberry Pi replacing my desktop PC, no chance of that. My desktop is literally a behemoth of power and speed, it is ridiculous and doesn't even have the most powerful and latest components in it. (Fully boots in 9 seconds, takes full advantage of cable internet speeds, etc.)
That said though I would like a streamer like the old Logitech Squeezebox that I can hook directly into my system without dealing with Bluetooth.
My Chromebook died several months ago. I still have my Android tablet, but it doesn't do audio stuff at all. I rarely use it except for setting up Alexa crap.

As for Teamgroup products: I just got a couple of 256GB USB 3.1/2 sticks from them and they work very well. I have not tried any other products from them. Perhaps the unit you got just slipped through. I would think they would replace it (or Amazon will, if you got it from there).

[jimf]

so, how do you fell the RPi5 will work as a secondary HTPC?

[balajiksk]

Nice video. Can you install Windows 11 and share your experience ? I see lots of videos from others but none of them explain like the way you do.

[Dave]

I rather have a windows on arm set up. When pi’s becomes available and they you can have multiple drives and a egpu on it, I’ll use it.

[moonytheloony]

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[phatmeow]

if you have a basic knowledge of pc assembly n if $$ is the issue just dip into the used market? just install a system light OS that meet your desktop needs and voila all done...

[tominmo]

Nice video! Of course it would have been faster if you had been using the PCIe feature with an M.2 drive, rather than a 2.5" SSD and the USB 3 connection. The USB throttles the throughput to be no better than a Pi 4.
I like the case. Pair that with a 52Pi Ice Tower Plus fan for a complete steampunk look!

[ozjohnno]

I have just gotten on board with the raspberry pi 5, and your wasting your time with ssd and a usb connection. I feel the best way is to run your tests again using an NVME M.2 hat and a pcie connection. With this setup and the config changes advised by Jeff geeling, my disk read is a blistering 754.66 MB (not Mb) /second. Disk writes are 439MB /sec and overall the damn is pretty darn snappy performance wise.

[brandoncruz]

Team group RAM has worked well for me. However, their SSD not so much. I had about 100 PCs running teamgroup sata ssd. In a year time frame, I must've replaced 15 of them.

[ksoonsoon]

Given all the recent media attention for bitcoin and it’s price spike, i’d love to see you use the PI 5 To build several different bitcoin nodes using the various software options available (cloud9, citadel - now has a new name, bitcoin core on something like desbian) and even a bitcoin miner on a raspberry pi 4 or 5 using cgminer and a couple USB miners with ASIC chips. Pulling this all together would be incredible. Especially since we can now use a Pineberry top or bottom hat to Support an NVME drive. I would owe you one if you produced this!!!

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Rpi 5 has only 8g ram. Not enough for more serious usage

[mateuszucjanek]

i love the part when you answer the question in the title

[floppa]

I find the desktop performance of the PI 5 so odd. On paper it should be about as powerful as a few year old flagship Smartphone, somewhere in between a Galaxy S9 and S10 but in practice everything feels slow, especially on my 4K screen it feels like I have a huge input delay when scrolling or flicking through the UI. I'm not sure if this is for the 100th time the GPU drivers not working 100%. Also the YT homepage on chromium takes ages.

But then again, when you run artificial benchmarks you get really good numbers and if I do stuff like compile code via remote desktop things are right where I expect them to be.

[ninline]

Considering my desktop is a Raspberry Pi 4, yes. It's faster than my 2014 Macbook Air laptop but not my 12 core Xeon equipped 2012 Mac Pro. I only turn the Mac Pro on to edit video or heat my office.