[arm-allstar] Raspberry Pi 3 CPU/SoC HOT HOT HOT!

[David McGough]

Hi Everyone,

For those who are getting the RPi3 boards and plan to do much "heavy 
lifting" with the CPU, I highly recommend obtaining a heatsink for the 
SoC.  When testing and running parallel software compiling (AKA: make 
-j 5) with this board over the last week, I've found that it can run 
-very- hot.  Here is an interesting article:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=138193


I put Enzotech BMR-C1 adhesive-backed heatsinks on my boards and recommend 
something similar for users that are wanting to have long term high 
reliability. The BMR-C1 heatsink is the exact form-factor needed to cover 
the SoC chip entirely and it makes a huge difference!


73, David KB4FXC