What CM5 board for uconsole?

I plan to change my useless A06 clockpi by an CM5 board (hopping it will work much better)

What kind of CM5 board is the best for clockpi ? Do I need storage on card or SD bootable card is enough ?

Thanks for answer

CM4 has better reliability right now, there seem to be power issues with the cm5. If it were me (and it was), I’d chose the cm4 8gb lite with wifi. This is what I’m running right now and it is stable and runs on my batteries for many hours (pink “3500mah” size 18650). No heat to comment on, but I’m not compiling the OS or transcoding video files, just works pretty good for what I’ve been doing.

As always, your mileage may vary.

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I bought the cm5 8gb version with sd boot. Seems to work very well. Had the cm4 before and was not happy at all. Cm5 support is very solid so cant wait to get my (second) uconsole for the cm5

i have a cm5 with 16gb and it work real well

Is CM4 adapter card is the right one ? Do I need CM5 with ou without on board storage ?

yes, it’s only one and it works with CM4 and CM5

that’s up to your preference. without storage you have an ease of use of sdcard and cheap 128gb+ storage.

with emmc you need extra board to flash OS, you have smaller size of main drive, but with CM5 you actually have speed bonus of emmc. (and you can’t use sdcard so you need to use an usb stick for additional storage)

I’m on a CM5 16gb ram 64gb emmc and it’s nice and snappy. You’ll need the cm5 io board to flash the emmc.

Sorry english isn’t my native language . Back to additional storage on CM5 board . I have raspi 5 board and I can run my prefered OS dragon_OS starting on a sd card . What would be the process with CM5 card ? Boot on a sd card ? install dragon_os on an Emmc storage ? what is the usage of cm5 IO board ? only flash the emmc on CM5 board ?

cm5 works the same way as cm4: you can have sd card or emmc, they exclude each other internally.

if you buy non-emmc version – yes, just boot from sd card

yes. or to “mount emmc”