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Yes, I am running KSP at 1440p already...

Kerbal Alarm Clock is good, but to be honest can you not calculate that yourself?? It is easier than calculating thrust to weight ratios...which is very easy still.

Congrats, I'm now playing KSP for almost a year... Today we did orbital mechanics in Physics in school. Was fun, but still hard.

Here's last night's build. I was too tired to upload it, so I'm doing it now. Here are some pics: Capable of reaching a stable orbit just above the atmosphere. To deorbit, use last few dV to dip into the atmosphere and wait for hours until you actually deorbit because of orbital decay. Has 66 parts, but you could probably remove a few struts and get below 60.

Ok I understand now... And yes, I wouldn't go with AMD for a computer like that. Intel however doesn't offer octacores for desktop. In fact, they don't offer them at all.

@ CaptainGiblets: And you still play? Great dedication... @ Rarity: Now please correct me if I'm wrong because I'm not sure about this, but I thought that The relationship between Clock Speed and actual useful processing power (whatever that might be i.e. Floating point or other) have a logarithmic relationship and therefore overclocking beyond some point will not actually have much effect and only the power consumption will increase exponentially as always. That might be the reason...

Ok I'm bored, not tired even though it is 12:30 AM here in Shanghai right now and I will start a speed build right now ... Opening KSP right now.. Don't expect anything beyond LKO, I don't have too much time... Maybe a better one later.

3GHz is the clock rate/frequency, which governs the speed of logical operation on your CPU. It is not linked to the number of cores. On your Core 2 Duo, both cpu cores are clocked at 3GHz. Since you have two independent cores, they both do work more or less independently at the same time, both at a frequency of 3GHz. BTW, clock speed doesn't determine you actual processing power. For example, a Pentium III processor (single core) from somewhere like 8-10 years ago (don't remember sry) might be clocked at 1.6 GHz (is that clock rate even realistic for a Pentium III, sry I'm 17 so not familiar with old hardware), but is easily beaten in terms of processing power by an Apple A4 (800MHz-1Ghz single core ARM-Risc) in the iPhone 4. Anyways, all I'm trying to say is that clock rate doesn't have a direct relationship to performance... PS: This reminds me of Amloris (on these forums), who has an AMD octacore processor (or 2 quad core don't remember) and has a custom built ethanol-based refrigerating cooling system. His processor(s) are OC'd to 5GHz and cooled to something like -20 degrees celsius... Just sharing this cuz it's the most extreme system I've ever heard of. Not like eight cores help at all when playing KSP.

@ Captain Giblets: Wow, sorry to say that but my iPad mini outperforms that easily (to be fair it is the new one with A7 SoC, the fastest ARM mobile processor on the market right now). How is the KSP performance? It should be hardly playable right? Man I feel sorta sorry for you... @Pds314: To what stats did u upgrade it? And if you didn't upgrade your CPU, you're still gonna have a bad time i suspect. Minecraft is quite CPU intensive compared to what it looks like (not exactly sure why). I suspect horrible 32-bit Java code...

@ turkwinif: Well that's what it is really Haha @ Vending Machine and Jas 1126: Really? That's not too expensive for a computer like that... I thought the GTX 780 Ti already cost $1000.

Interesting...Never heard of any of the other ones. Only stock sounded familiar, probably because of the fact that you'd always have a stock one...

I have a large list of mods installed as well... So for me it takes about 3 mins! I usually browse these forums or 9GAG (no judging plz) on my iPad. That way it doesn't slow down the loading process.

Is that the 13 or the 15 inch? I don't know the CPU identifier numbers in my head, so I can't tell if quad or dual core... Anyways, pretty impressive performance for something I'd classify as an ultrabook! Really impressive computer overall I think. I'd like one too!!! How come all of you guys build custom machines for 3k bucks (maybe a bit less I know...).

Thanks again for sharing...all of you. @ turkwinif: I checked the performance of you integrated GPU (a little better than my MacBook Pro's 320M since it is newer actually). 512 MB VRAM are sufficient. More really is not needed for that chip...It would not improve the performance. But is your GPU really limiting your KSP gameplay? No! BTW, it has approx. 170 GFlops of processing power. Just saying that your GPU probably won't be limiting your KSP gameplay that much due to KSPs nature...

Eeerrrrrrrrrhhhhhgggggg... Dat Computer....PC Envy kicking in:blush: How much did that cost in total?