New Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ now on sale

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New Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ now on sale

Post by wboy » Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:23 pm

New Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ now on sale - GSMArena.com news
https://www.gsmarena.com/new_raspberry_ ... -30087.php

The new Raspberry Pi has 5 GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.2 - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker ... band-wi-fi

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+: A closer look at the newest board | ZDNet
https://www.zdnet.com/pictures/raspberr ... est-board/
The new board shares many of the same specs as its predecessor, but brings the processor speed up to 1.4GHz -- about a 15% increase.

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Re: New Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ now on sale

Post by dee2eR » Wed Mar 14, 2018 9:49 pm

Mine should be coming tomorrow. Still light on details, very much looking forward to putting one on a RaspberryJAMMA. I'm impressed it's the same price as the regular Pi3. Funny the Pi Foundation spent the last year saying 'no Pi4 plans yet' while quietly sitting on their waiting hardware upgrade, the '3+'.

I'll need to do a new ARpiCADE version for it, currently tossing up if I'll upload 3.82 (or whatever version it is I've been working on) as it is now a evolutionary dead end (was prob about a week off release).

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Re: New Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ now on sale

Post by FrizzleFried » Thu Mar 15, 2018 10:15 pm

I'm guessing there will be minimal performance increases considering I run mt Pi3 at 1400 mhz already... :D

Might be able to squeeze a few extra mhz out of it.
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Re: New Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ now on sale

Post by dee2eR » Fri Mar 16, 2018 12:31 am

It should perform a tiny bit better than your overclocked Pi3. The thermal handling will cause it to throttle less often and it only throttles back to 1200mHz (from what I've read).

Definately won't be a night and day difference. At least it's the same price.

Mine should show up today. Yesterday, I updated my development build, hopefully I can boot the Pi3+ on it now without having to remake the software entirely.

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