Performance
Now that it’s done, we’re ready to test the system. There are no moving parts, so it’s completely silent. That’s already a huge bonus, especially if you need a distraction-free environment. For me, I’ll be gaming on it, and not having a fan buzzing away is certainly a welcome feature.
While I’m not going to dive too much into the “how” on installing emulation and arcade front ends, there’s certainly enough resources for that here. However, I can tell you this is the first Raspberry Pi I’ve used and I’m honestly blown away.
I mean, of course, it’s all in the case. The AKASA Gem Pro is tuned to ensure that when I’m burning the Pi4’s iGPU to the max, it doesn’t throttle. I mean, what kind of gamer wants heat to compromise their games FPS? None, that’s how many.
Fortunately, I can’t say I saw any issues here what so ever. I’ve had this thing running Soul Calibur using ReDream, Mario64 on Retroarch, and plenty more for the last couple of days and it hasn’t skipped a beat, and I haven’t even turned it off either.
I’m mostly using Retro Pi now though, with the Retropie 4.6 loaded setup found here. The performance was excellent, and it certainly seems the Pi 4 and the AKASA Gem Pro make a great pairing.
If they can handle this together for days on end, I expect a lifetime of desktop usage, digital signage or anything else really will seem pretty easy in comparison.
