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On 21/10/2025 13:57, druck wrote:
> On 20/10/2025 22:52, Chris Townley wrote:
>> On 20/10/2025 21:29, Daniel wrote:
>>> Chris Townley  writes:
>>>> I wouldn't trust anything from Argon40 again
>>>
>>>
>>> What happened, if you don't mind my asking?
>>
>> I had an Argon One for a Pi4 - great, then when I bought a Pi5 I got 
>> their V3 plus the NVME connector.
>>
>> In principle it is great, but their software install is a pile of 
>> spaghetti shell script, and doesn?t really work, although I found an 
>> alternative that did.
>>
>> However their design is flawed, as it uses it's own board that filters 
>> out a lot of checks. Their support forum is carp - they just don't 
>> respond to anything.
>>
>> I did get it working, but enough grief for me!
> 
> I didn't find any of that with the Argon One V5 for the Pi 5, maybe 
> because that has a less complex PCIe to NVNe interface. The software 
> install was very straight forward and it worked right out of the box.
> 
> The full size HDMIs are very useful as are the front USB ports, and I've 
> got the optional OLED screen as it looks nice. It's also by far the 
> coolest running of my Pi 5's, with its large thermal mass the fan is 
> hardly ever on, even though it is sitting on top of a hot D6000 Display 
> Link box (almost identically sized) for my laptop.
> 
> I've also got another Pi 5 in very neat and snaller Argon Neo NVMe case. 
> That does run a bit hotter than a Pi with the official cooler, but it is 
> in a semi enclosed area with other AV equipment, but again that just 
> works great.
> 
> I bought both cases from The Pi Hut, and I'd recommend using them for 
> any support issues, rather than the Argon website, particular as it's 
> forum seems to have been taken over by spammers last year.
> 
> ---druck

Thanks, I do use Pi Hut, and they are excellent

However I believe the ONE V3 is flawed in the way that everything is 
sealed in, and it overrides the Pi5 power management. Obviously opinions 
vary!


-- 
Chris

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