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You're right, that is a bit of a pain 😅 My plan was to cover anything I had coolers for, and only then test the bare thermal performance of said board. The closest I'd do to what you're looking for here is likely something like the RPi CM5 in a range of configs like, bare SoC, bare SoC in case, passive heatsink, passive heatsink in case etc. I'm not sure I'd get fruity enough to find a box and test it like that, it was mainly destined to be for actual products :D

2026-03-10 19:33:18 UTC

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Or did I misunderstand, and you'd like to have the CPU frequency on the comparison page? This whole thing has been a mess to try and rationalise, as the graphs become insane when you factor in SoCs with 3+ types of CPU cores running at different freqs, then if we compare 4 coolers, it's on an entirely different planet.
I tried to strike a balance with just temperatures on the comparison page, and the tsunami of data on individual cooler pages, but I'm open to ideas!

2026-03-10 19:31:19 UTC

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On the individual cooler page at https://sbc.compare/coolers/banana-pi-r4/generic-bpi-r4-active-cooler you can tick to overlay the CPU frequencies and power draw throughout the test if that helps? It may not be super obvious in its current state :( It's also terrible right now on boards that throttle such as https://sbc.compare/coolers/raspberry-pi-5/entaniya-pi-5-heatsink - I need to strike a balance of granularity and density and I'm definitely not there yet 😂

2026-03-10 19:08:24 UTC

Hey guysss, could I ask for some feedback?
https://sbc.compare/coolers/banana-pi-r4
https://sbc.compare/coolers/raspberry-pi-5
You can then also see more details (including power/CPU freq) on a particular cooler like https://sbc.compare/coolers/banana-pi-r4/generic-bpi-r4-active-cooler
Any comments? Ideas? Should I scrap it all?!

2025-04-05 16:16:24 UTC

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They're pirates!