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Review on Elecrow Raspberry Pi 5 Capacitive Touchscreen Interface - Portable HD Monitor, 8595698868 by Matt Schmidt

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Absolutely perfect for PC monitor panel

I love watching YouTube videos of people building computers and I came across this guy who put a mini LCD panel in his computer to control temperature and speed. He recommended this panel (5 inch, blue). So I took one. The included cables are short, so I recommend getting a 3-foot USB to Micro USB cable and a thin HDMI cable for the mono price. I pointed both at the back of the computer. Once the LCD was on, I set up the panel as a second monitor. The resolution is now 800x600 but I was having a hard time getting templates to add so I changed it to 800x480 for windows and downloaded a set of aida64 templates with that resolution. Although the resolution is lower, it actually looks better to me. See image. Took me about 30 minutes to set everything up. Also, you need a retail version of aida64 Extreme, so I recommend you to search Google for sites that sell the license much cheaper than the real aida64 site. As a bonus, people on the internet don't like it because these panels are powered. via USB, when the computer is off, some panels stay on with a "No Signal" message, but this one fixes that because it automatically turns off when it doesn't detect a video signal. I am very satisfied with the result. I would give 10 stars if I could

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Pros
  • Hooked it up to my Raspberry Pi and it's amazing. Doesn't get hot and works perfectly.
Cons
  • This junk fell apart the same day I put it together.