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Thanks @bewing! Your first idea was also my first idea, but it didn’t work; I couldn’t seem to interact with it while it was only extended for science transmit. But after a bewildering array of bizarre camera angles, the second idea worked like a charm. Thank you!

Oops: my Communotron 16 on a Minmus lander is covered up by a mono tank. Fortunately it will extend fine to transmit science, but I can't right click on it to manually extend it. Are there any key commands or other ways to access the part and manually extend it? Thanks!

Thanks @Geonovast. Unfortunately that one was gone by the time I reached out, so I'm looking at a few others now and focusing more on the CPU per your advice. Current options are all Core i5's (and one i7 but with an older GTX 660 and only 4GB ram) that seem to score pretty well on cpubenchmark.net. Any idea how KSP looks on TV's? For some reason I recall (and have been told) that even at 1080p, computer games don't tend to look as sharp on TV's as on proper monitors. It's been a long time since I've gotten into those details, but I have an older Sony 1080p TV downstairs that I was considering as a monitor.

Thanks @Harry Rhodan, @Elthy, and @Geonovast for the quick responses. I was thinking about picking that thing up today but that processor was nagging at me and it sounds like I would have been disappointed. I'm trying to grab something quick/easy on Craigslist for <$500. It's not because I couldn't afford more right now, but I already have a lot of toys (boats, motorcycles, etc) and I'm not a big gamer, so the fact that I'm going to buy a PC just to play KSP during the shut down is already getting me some eye-rolls from the wife. Getting a 'used', 'cheaper' gaming rig makes it 'not as big a deal' if you know what I mean. Two other options on my radar: iBUYPOWER TRACE930 - Core i7 7700 3.6 GHz - 16 GB -120 SSD / 1.12 TB HDD - Nvidia 1060 GTX *3GB*... except he pulled the ram for his new build, so I have to grab some ram (thinking 16GB). He's asking $400 but open to offers. HP Pavilion 560 - Core i5-6400 2.7 GHz - 8 GB - 128 SSD / 1 TB HDD - RX 480 4GB - wifi/bluetooth. Asking $300 but I'm worried about the 2.7GHz (turbo boost to 3.3GHz) I was going to put this up on an old 1080p TV, but it's 46" and I've been told it won't look good, so I guess I'll be picking up a monitor as well... again, gotta keep the $$ down... or at least tell her I did. ;-) Thanks again!

Hello Flight Directors! Returning to the game after a 4+ year absence and discovering that the lack of GPU on my 13" MacBookPro really kills the performance (my old 15" had a dedicated card). Not a hardcore gamer, but for KSP I'm willing to pick something up used, and wanted to get a sanity check that this used rig I'm looking at will run at medium to highish settings: Asus F2A55-M motherboard (with dual PCI-E slots)AMD A8-5500 Quad-Core processor @3.2 GHz (turbo boost to 3.7 GHz) <--- this is the piece I'm not sure about16 GB DDR3 memory (upgradeable to 32 GB)256 GB Samsung SSDAsus GTX1060 gaming video card w/3GB GDDR5 video memory (HDMI, DVI, 2 x DP output) From what I know, that GTX 1060 is pretty solid and will run at 1080 no problem. The A8 at 3.2 GHz sounds good enough to me, but I'm not an expert on processor speeds. Any help/thoughts appreciated!