Subj : Re: RetroPie + CRT
To   : bcw142
From : deepthaw
Date : Tue Oct 10 2017 13:42:04

 bc> May not be the best place, Pi's generally don't have heatsinks and don't
 bc> like the high temperature that an attic can get to (120+F) not to mention
 bc> people ;) Depends on time of year of course.

It's actually been partially converted into a third bedroom, so we have AC
and stuff like that - it does tend to be a little warmer than the rest of the
house, but not near the extremes of a typical attic.

 bc> 800x600). I found the composite to limiting and hard to keep running
 bc> after updates and things, went to HDMI and newer LCDs. I Did use old
 bc> composite stuff for a while (a year or so) on some stuff before the PiB+
 bc> and Pi2 (and Retropi).

I don't know hard it'll be to keep it running long term, but it does have the
immediate side-effect of letting my turn off the CRT-PI shader I was using -
it was adding enough CPU overhead that my Pi was flashing up the overheat
icon on a fairly regular basis.

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