/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9048174
Pretty please give me some GameBoy Advance homebrew and ROM hacks to check out, something good. Thanks.

>>9036847
Nope, they cost next to nothing and do reduce the temperature or more importantly, the difference between the hardware being off and on under load, which is worse.

There's no reason to not use heatsinks or even fans in hardware that did not originally have it since it was build to a price point, if you want it to last a long time.
People have done it before this "retro" meme started, including myself from the 90's onward, thermal epoxying copper or aluminium slabs on chips that got warm to the touch. Maybe that's why dozens of my machines still work from back in the day even though they have been used extensively in a warm climate with close to zero failure rate on all the IC's in total.

>>9036895
>On used hardware it's already too late.
Nope, you can still reduce thermal expanse differences a lot which might make all the difference, but this is per case of course.

The point being that considering a small thermal adhesive heatsink costs less than a euro, there's no point to not use it on a chip that gets moderately warm.

>>9016113