3DO Emulation
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@ProxyCell Hi ProxyCell. Thanks for your continued testing. I suspected that 3DO emulation would continue to demand more processing power, beyond what the Pi is capable of. Not being a coder I can only speculate, but I suspect it is because the emulator is not optimized for this architecture. Thanks very much for your efforts in testing though, I'm sure the information you've provided will not only be useful to me, but perhaps the development community as well. Don't push your Pi too hard, I don't want to see you burn out your CPU. Thanks again for your efforts.
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@ProxyCell Lol, sorry I thought you were referring to 3DO emulation specifically. I haven't had the guts to overclock my Pi boards beyond the confirmed stable values. If I were a bit richer I might lol. I imagine that stable overclocking speeds on the Pi3 is extremely variable from chip to chip right now, which is probably why overclocking the Pi3 is not officially supported yet. I'm just guessing though.
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yeah it feels a lot like the original RPi before they had official OC settings. we voided our warrantees by doing it back then. Overall its extremely safe to do as long as you have a heatsink on it.
A lot of people/companies are going to show you some setups using fans or even full-submersion of their RPi, its required for retropie I have found. I would like to get a heatsink on the bottom of the board though... I will likely go to a local hackerspace and 3D print a barebones case sometime: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:629886
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My Pi3 hit's about 75 degrees under load I recently found out, despite the fact that I applied heatsinks with good quality thermal adhesive. The only thing I think I could have done differently is use a case with better airflow. In light of this, I doubt I will attain a decent, or even modest overclock without passing 80 degrees under load, at which point the system will likely throttle down anyway unless I disable the safeguards. Based on this, I will probably forget about overclocking for the time being unfortunately.
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Contrary to popular belief, heat sinks do very little without airflow. You are a small fan away from never temping past 56 or so C. Here's a link to the post where I describe my setup just a bit. - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/1637/first-time-emulator-console-build-questions/6 Scroll up a bit for a good test video I found.
I'm not overclocked and my idle temps are are around 36 or so degrees C with a game playing ramp up to about 56 or so C.
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