magpi.cc 03WELCOME
B
y now you will have noticed the free gift on the print edition
of The MagPi. You may be wondering how useful a single strip of
plastic can be? Very, very useful as it happens.
You see, back in issue 88, Gareth Halfacree tested a Raspberry Pi 4
with all the different firmware updates. This gave us an insight into just
how important firmware was to the Raspberry Pi. But another thing
came to light: Raspberry Pi 4 runs cooler when stood vertically.
Alex Bate, Raspberry Pi’s digital content manager, got to work on a
design that’s now attached to the front cover. All is explained on page 6.
Do yourself a favour and unstick the Raspberry Pi 4 stand, then pop
your Raspberry Pi 4 on its side and keep it vertical.
It turns out that keeping Raspberry Pi 4 cool enables it to run at full
speed for longer and, crucially, this opens up a world of overclocking,
where you try to squeeze ever more performance out of a Raspberry Pi.
Our overclocking tutorial (page 34)
explains all.
Raspberry Pi 4 has always been cool
to us. But cool is fast in the world of
computing, and this month we’re all
about running Raspberry Pi as fast
as possible.Lucy Hattersley Editor
WELCOME
to The MagPi 90
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HattersleyLucy is editor of
The MagPi. This
month she did
Veganuary and dry
January. She’ll see
you at the bar in
February.
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