An intrepid {hardware} tinkerer has managed to improve the Raspberry Pi four pc board to sport a hefty 16GB of RAM – in a way of talking.

This comes from YouTuber MadEDoctor, who boosted the system reminiscence connected to an entry-level Raspberry Pi four 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 four to 8GB, however needed to go additional and double up on that reminiscence configuration.

Nonetheless, there’s a substantial caveat right here. The excellent news is that with the 16GB put in, the Raspberry Pi four turned on and the boot display screen confirmed that the 16GB improve registered.

The unhealthy information is that when booting Raspberry Pi OS (the official distro), the machine fell over and received caught on a black display screen (not like the earlier 8GB improve which was an entire success).

MadEDoctor may 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 be capable of get the Pi four going with 16GB finally, stating that there will likely be a observe up video “for positive”.

The {hardware} knowledgeable 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 subject. 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 the way to cope with 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 will be achieved – or what needs 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 circumstances of the Pi the place the machine would profit from having much more reminiscence.