Zynthian 4 upgraded with Raspberry pi 5!

I all, I succeded in upgrading my Z4 with Rasp 5 and passive heatsink (GeeekPi from amazon). Everything went flawless. Flashed sd card with stable Oram. I have to work a little bit on the case, it won’t close properly because the screen touches the heatsink. I manager to fasten only the 4 posterior screw of the case. For now temperature stay below 50C°. tomorrow I’ll try to overclock.

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I would be interested in photos of the inside, if it’s not too much trouble of course.

The photos of the upgrade

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Thank you very much, and congratulations on getting the RPi5 working in the Z4!

Kudos on you Z cross-grade challenge!

Thanks!! Now I can use Pianoteq at full potential and OsTirus!! One of my master keyboard happen to be VirusTi2 and I can confirm that they sounds identical :scream:. Thanks to all the exceptional programmers, engineers for putting together this wonderful piece of “nerd” hardware

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Congratulations !!! :astonished:
The fan is not too loud ?

Time for my traditional advert for the zynthian-pwm-fan service and it’s excellent handling of fan volume.

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Yes I’ve noted that.
But I didn’t read correctly the first post : it’s a passive heatsink :sweat_smile:

I don’t see it as a performance itself more a framework on which we can frolic!

And the raspberry pi 5 have his own pwn fan port near the USB port apparently

The pi is becoming a bloated little thing…

Hi @Spacedentist ,

How did you mount the hifiberry on the heatsink? Or is it just lying there? And did you unsolder the RCA and headphone plugs?

The hi-fi berry is just Lying there, I have to use an extension of the pin( see photo)! And the Zynthian I bought (used) was already without them, I think was a OEM custom version that they used in some Z4

I am on the verge of also going down this route.

Just wondering: Can one leave out the hifi-berry, and directly connect the pi to the zynaptik-1 board?

Successful here too! I tortured the backside of the case with a Dremel, which I had never used before, but hey, who’s looking at the back? Just more possibilities for airflow!

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