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Friday I am ordering the parts to build a computer with KSP in mind. 4GHz Quad core chip, Radon 260X GDDR3 2G, liquid cooling, 8G RAM (for now).

It actually (Heavily modded) has a watchable framerate to about 400 parts and is a slideshow past 600.

I hope this will give me a watchable framerate to 1000 parts. Since it is so hevily CPU dependent I can skimp a bit on the graphics card. Although it is still a huge improvement over my current setup of a 2.2 GHz Quad core and a HD7400M 512 MB card in my Acer Aspire notebook.

Of course the computer will inherit the 32" LG HDTV I currently use for a monitor.

It is my birthday present to myself......and Jeb and the boys.:huh::cool::confused:

With shipping it el cheapo, it's gonna be a looooong week and a half......

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Yeah, a heavily modded Skyrim, Civ V, and GTA IV (another game I keep hitting a memory overload on due to mods, but graphic, not RAM).

I'm certain computers have other uses.....they must.......meh, who cares...It will make a kickin 54th Birthday for sure!

(currently 780 hrs since it went on Steam. Only CIV V. Medieval II, and Medieval ROME I have more...and not by much. All of them have been on the computer longer than KSP. KSP is about 15 months old on my system....since 0.18)

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And that's the beauty of a PC. Versatile and upgradable. By months end I may be able to add a second graphics card and more memory (in the hope KSP will eventually be 64 bit....Please!)

Not to mention Mods.....and KSP has the best. I have had less problems (excluding memory overloads) from KSP mods than from any other game. Right now I have around 30 mods and it loads up to about 3G, on mine it dies at about 3.7G. I'm actually pleased I get the performance I do out of it. Can't wait until it has some horsepower to play with!

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Sooo cheap! Try seeing what that money would get you in the UK!

[Edit for below - you pay roughly half what we'd have to. USD$740 would be GBP£440 (just checked) which would be a good-ish laptop - something more than just surfing the web and twitface but not much in the way of graphics.]

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Sooo cheap! Try seeing what that money would get you in the UK!

Having never traveled outside the U.S. I was unaware hardware was that different, although I am unfortunately, not suprised.

edit: Curiosity, I can't seem to find a way to look up U.K. pricing. what does a AMD FX 4350 4.2 GHz processor go for in there? $129.28 US here...

edit: reply to above: I promise never to ***** about the price of computer hardware ever again. Thanks for the information though. My Google-Fu is weak on the subject of international pricing apparently.

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Yes it is. I should have it built by the following weekend if there are no shipping delays. I have a half constructed (486 part) ship in orbit awaiting its living quarters and lander(212 parts). It is such a slideshow when they get near that I am saving my quicksave and not playing that gamesave until I have it built. Very hard to make delicate manuvours at 2 FPS....

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Don't expect anything amazing when it comes to graphics performance from this game. My new computer I just built with a 4770K overclocked to 4.2 GHz and a gtx 780 SC that can play BF4 on high settings at 5760x1200 resolution still struggles with KSP at 1920x1080. Well I shouldn't say struggle, it doesn't even break a sweat. The game just isn't fully optimized, I only get about 15 fps viewing my orbiter lab with a few ships docked to it. If I change the graphics from everything maxed to everything minimum I maybe get 17 fps.

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The nice thing about living in Washington state. Hydroelectric. I pay .089 cents per KW hour. For my one bedroom apartment that averages around $62 a month. With electric heat in the winter and A/C in the summer.

How on earth do you manage to spend 62 dollars on 0.089 CENTS per kWh electricity? In a one bedroom appartment!? That's tickling 70 MEGAWATT-hour per month! Even if you meant 0,089 dollar (so 8,9 cents) that's still 700 kWh per month. Which is doable I suppose, but still very high for a one-bedroom appartment IMO. I average around 10 kWh per day in a two bedroom apartment with electric water heating, A/C, a big fridge and ofcourse my computer. I just don't get it :P

Then again I have a bit more incentive to be frugal since electricity here runs around $0.35-.40 per kWh

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forgot that i actually have a 2 bedroom unit instead of 3
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I hope "4ghz" means you're overclocking, instead of getting a CPU with that stock clock, because a 4670k is almost certainly a better buy for KSP

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/42877-CPU-Performance-Database

Wow. Thanks! The FX 6350 benchmarks even better, and it's only $10 more!

Of course....now I'll need a better motherboard, $30 more....Oh well, Only live once (unless your Jeb, Bob or Bill....:confused::cool::huh:)

Thanks again, for making my build better! With the better CPU and motherboard, it still came in (with shipping) $1.92 under my $800 maximum.

Thanks!

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Run a 6' HDMI from my laptop currently, with wireless KB, and Trackball.

I order the parts tomorrow for the new setup. Building it with a mind towards KSP, but will help with my heavily modded Skyrim and GTA IV setups as well, as they run out of graphic memory.

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Don't expect anything amazing when it comes to graphics performance from this game. My new computer I just built with a 4770K overclocked to 4.2 GHz and a gtx 780 SC that can play BF4 on high settings at 5760x1200 resolution still struggles with KSP at 1920x1080. Well I shouldn't say struggle, it doesn't even break a sweat. The game just isn't fully optimized, I only get about 15 fps viewing my orbiter lab with a few ships docked to it. If I change the graphics from everything maxed to everything minimum I maybe get 17 fps.

Considering my 700 part interplanetary research ship slows down to about 2 fps.....15 would be WONDERFUL!

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How on earth do you manage to spend 62 dollars on 0.089 CENTS per kWh electricity? In a one bedroom appartment!? That's tickling 70 MEGAWATT-hour per month! Even if you meant 0,089 dollar (so 8,9 cents) that's still 700 kWh per month. Which is doable I suppose, but still very high for a one-bedroom appartment IMO. I average around 10 kWh per day in a two bedroom apartment with electric water heating, A/C, a big fridge and ofcourse my computer. I just don't get it :P

Then again I have a bit more incentive to be frugal since electricity here runs around $0.35-.40 per kWh

Electric heat in the winter, AC in the summer. Deep Freeze, 2 computers 24 hrs a day both with 32" HDMI screens one 47" 3D tv runs about 14 hrs a day (Except now that's my monitor, my wife had knee surgury yesterday and will be in rehab 3 weeks.)

Wasteful, perhaps, but Heaters Make the worst hit. In the summer it drops to around $50, and yes I meant 8.9 cents.

Only Wyoming and Idaho are less expensive for electricity. Hydroelectric is wonderful.

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