What PCs do you guys use to run Lakka on? Old one lying around? Desktop? Laptop? Intel NUC?
Old Dell Latitude laptop - works great!!
MSI Probox23 with Corei3 CPU and 4GB RAM
Anyone try an Up Board or an UDOO x86?
For now I use Lakka on a Raspberry Pi 2 (and “regular” Retroarch on more powerful x86 PCs) but it’s not very powerful ; I would like to be able to use advanced CRT shaders and stuff for 8 / 16 bits consoles (even though the crt-pi shader does an awesome job). I’m looking for a powerful enough Intel NUC machine ; I’ve seen these two, but I don’t know if they can run 16 bit games at full speed with shaders like crt-hyllian, crt-easymode-halation etc.
How about the LattePanda?
Just curious, does it read it as the same as the PC would in the hardware results, that is, it would emulate everything at reasonable (i.e. full) speed? For x86-based boards?
I don’t own any of those cards but it should work fairly well.
I’m thinking that the Lakka LE should be included in the Nightlies. That LattePanda for $79 is a steal and can probably emulate DC/PSP/DS (the hardest cores out of the bunch with Lakka/Retroarch) without much of a problem if I can get good performance on DC with a Chromebox @ 1.4 GHz CPU and an Intel HD Graphics chip. The slight speed boost alone should help me out.
Have two System in use with lakka, a third is in work… (Odroid C)
First machine runs Lakka with a a AMD Fusion E-350 - all tested Systems runs near perfectly (newer Systems like PS1, PSP, N64 needs little frameskip or other speed-modifications). at this System lakka runs out of the box and VERY stable!
Since a few days i try to build a 2nd machine. A Intel NUC with an “Pentium” N3700. This System freezes randomly on N64 emulation , in the GUI and sometimes it freeses at boot.
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Using RPi3 with medium overclock : perfect for NES, SNES, MegaDrive, Neo Geo, FB Alpha (not all) & CPS II. Some N64 works fine also.
Also using a Dell Latitude D630 for all listed platforms beyond including N64 and Dreamcast, was working great until latest release (20161209).
I’m thinking about refurbishing a Dell OptiPlex 390 to replace the Dell Latitude D630 laptop and finally leave in the living room definitevely.
I’m just frustating that from a device to another (Dell Latitude E6410 under Windows 10 vs. Dell Latitude D630 under Lakka) the behaviour is not the same and some games need different cores to run.
Anyway, playing old stuffs is a real pleasure, especially discovering to kids what we used to play at their same age 
So far, I have to hold the modded Chromebox and the Gigabyte Brix S i3 model micro PCs “hand” with another PC logged into it via SSH from Putty with Retroarch verbose mode enabled. So I’m trying to find a PC or x86 architecture that I don’t have to do that with.
Well, bumped my head up against another one that “failed”: the Alienware Steam Machine, i7 edition. Just thought of something: noticing a trend with Lakka and probably going to help me with my selection of the x86 platform of choice, given my own experience and whatnot. I notice that Lakka, according to Libretro’s own site, Lakka is more geared for hobbyist dev boards and commodity PCs. So in other words, basically, older PCs who have had their time in the sun and have been put out to pasture and of course, the hobby boards I’ve been having a blast retro-gaming with (the Raspberry Pi 3 and Odroid XU4). It’s also explains a LOT why Lakka doesn’t work on my Asus Chromebox, Gigabyte Brix S (6th Gen Intel i3 w/ Intel HD Graphics), and now, the Alienware Steam Machine i7 model, but works like a dream on an old laptop I had during graduate school. No hand-holding like I have to do with those other machines via logging into Lakka via Putty on my most recent Win10 laptop. Runs it just fine and with no external issues. So…I’m thinking I should probably either grab one of these aforementioned x86 64-bit boards (UDOO looks the most promising), or snag a super-old desktop from a thrift store or something like that for cheap. Probably the single-board x86 64-bit PC.
have installed lakka an a SHUTTLE Barebone XPC nano NC01U (Celeron 3205u) today.
good performance (stable 2x1,5 Ghz) - and overall not so bad for a 140€ device, i think.