Review on 🎮 CanaKit Raspberry Pi 3 Complete Starter Kit - 32 GB Edition: Power up your Pi projects with all-in-one convenience by Chris Barreto

Really good starter kit. However, if you want maximum performance from your Raspberry Pi 3, please purchase the components separately. The included Kingston memory card is decent but not outstanding. For maximum microSD performance, grab a Samsung EVO+, Samsung Pro+, or Sandisk Extreme card. The 32GB capacity is the perfect combination of performance and price. If you want to run Raspbian, Ubuntu Mate, Retropie or another desktop distro, you need at least 3.5 GB; make an 8GB card convenient but impractical. A 16GB card would be ideal, but you get better read/write performance from a 32GB card and cost a few bucks more. The difference between EVO+ and Pro+ or Extreme is $8 with <10% increase in performance. To see a performance comparison, search for "Pi Dramble microSD Card Benchmarks". I threw away the microSD card reader that came with it. It doesn't even fit a microSD card. It's better to buy a microSD to SD card adapter and use an existing SD card reader that your laptop or desktop already has. However, built-in SD card readers do not offer the best performance. To speed this up, grab the "Sandisk Extreme PRO Card Reader" which uses USB 3.0. My Asus UX305CA Ultrabook increased the transfer speed from 15MB/s to 25MB/s. The case looks nice and solid, but it doesn't offer the best cooling. If you overclock the CPU, SDRAM and GPU, increase the system temperature to 75 °C / 167 F. The firmware is configured to throttle the CPU if it reaches 80 °C / 176 F in this case. with fan. I recommend "Makerfire Raspberry Pi B+ Protective Enclosure Case with Mini Heatsink Cooling Fan Kit" (plastic, microSD can be easily removed) or EleDuino (aluminum, microSD cannot be easily removed). The fanless Canakit chassis achieved 75°C/167°F when running FF7 on the PSX in Retropie. The fan-powered Makerfire case received 52 C/126 F from FF7 to PSX in Retropie. I was very surprised and I tested it again, playing the game for 30 minutes each time to stabilize it and got the same results. The ambient temperature in Boston was 22 C / 71 F. If you want to overclock the system, you will need a slightly larger adapter. Comes with 5V 2.5A. You can get a 5V 3A power adapter with a micro USB power adapter from NorthPada. The 3A output current is the maximum supported by the USB 2.0 standard. The included power adapter is fine if you don't overclock. Be careful with your power settings, you can "overclock" USB to go from 600mAh to 1200mAh, which will help support more powerful USB devices. However, this is unreliable when used with power-hungry devices like external hard drives. If you want to connect hard drives, connect them via a USB hub and connect the hub to your Raspberry Pi. The downside to running a Raspberry Pi is installing all the USB dongles. Check out the StarTech and Tripp Lite 6-inch USB cables. You can purchase USB 3.0, USB 2.0, Micro USB, Mini USB, and USB extension cables. larger radio keys defined by the RTL-SDR software. Keyboard and mouse are not included. In fact, you must have it to set it up. I have an inexpensive model from Jelly Comb called the "Jelly Comb 2.4G Ultra Slim Portable Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo" that uses a single USB receiver. If you want to run Retropie/EmulationStation and play PSX, N64, SNES, NES and older system games, grab a pair of "Vmargera USB Double Shock Controller GamePad" controllers; They use one USB connection per controller. If you want to use the RPi3 as an HTPC media player, check out OSMC and grab a remote USB receiver. I have one from X Strong. There are many of them that are mainly designed for Android devices. The downside is that Debian and Ubuntu don't run Netflix natively, they just don't have enough GPU to handle Silverlight through the browser. However, you can install Android Marshmallow and use the Android Netflix app. On-device Wi-Fi is decent, but not amazing. You can't expect high throughput from the built-in WLAN chip without an external antenna. If you need higher speeds with low latency, check out the AC 600Mbps Wi-Fi USB Dongle. I received the "Edimax EW-7811UAC 11AC" key shortly and the reviews say it is compatible. Overall I really like the kit. This is the first one I've bought and I've learned a lot from it. If you're looking for a quick and easy set, grab this one. If you're overclocking and want to get the best performance, grab the components listed above.