An intrepid {hardware} tinkerer has managed to improve the Raspberry Pi 4 pc board to sport a hefty 16GB of RAM – in a fashion of talking.
This comes from YouTuber MadEDoctor, who boosted the system reminiscence hooked up to an entry-level Raspberry Pi 4 from 1GB to the talked about 16GB, as proven in a video simply uploaded to their channel. The improve was carried out utilizing a scorching air rework station and a few very cautious soldering.
As Tom’s Hardware (opens in new tab), which flagged this up, notes, beforehand MadEDoctor upgraded the Pi 4 to 8GB, however needed to go additional and double up on that reminiscence configuration.
Nevertheless, there’s a substantial caveat right here. The excellent news is that with the 16GB put in, the Raspberry Pi 4 turned on and the boot display confirmed that the 16GB improve registered.
The dangerous information is that when booting Raspberry Pi OS (the official distro), the machine fell over and bought caught on a black display (not like the earlier 8GB improve which was a whole success).
MadEDoctor might boot RISC OS, however that solely confirmed 4GB of RAM current, not 16GB.
Evaluation: Keep tuned for the observe up…
MadEDoctor sounds assured that they’ll have the ability to get the Pi 4 going with 16GB finally, stating that there will probably be a observe up video “for certain”.
The {hardware} skilled launched this clip for now, stating that this was as a result of it’ll most likely take “a while to determine the answer” to this problem. So, don’t anticipate something to occur imminently, and we aren’t given any clues as to what the issue is likely to be.
Though MadEDoctor seems to be wanting into whether or not Raspberry Pi OS doesn’t know methods to take care of a 16GB configuration, and potential methods round that, at the very least going by the feedback on the YouTube video.
In the end, that is extra of a enjoyable train in what might be finished – or what ought to be potential quickly, we should always say – fairly than something sensible, although it’s potential some of us might need area of interest use instances of the Pi the place the machine would profit from having much more reminiscence.