KSP killed my computer

[Dfthu]

So two days ago I was testing my new SSTO. When I pulled up my wings sheared off and lagged my game for 10 seconds. I F9ed and pulled up again, but more carefully. Wings sheared off again. This time it lagged even more before my screen turned black. After another 10 seconds of that, KSP popped back up. Although the Navball was missing throttle and G-Force meter. For a few seconds the game ran but very laggy. The screen turned back again before popping up to KSP again, along with the bugged Navball. Finally the deathblow came with the Blue Screen of Death. After the Blue Screen ended the computer screen turned black with the computer still on. After trying everything  to fix it, nothing would turn it back on. Yesterday i brought to a repair shop. They should call me with the news today. I think I might of overheated it again, as that happened a few years ago.

[Geonovast]

KSP didn't kill your computer, a poor cooling system did.

[softweir]

I agree with @Geonovast. The worst one can say of KSP is that it stresses all parts of your system (GPU, CPU and chipset) so it is sure to find any Achilles' heel like an inadequate cooling system. But your PC would have died eventually, some time, when you ran any sufficiently stressful application.

[Galileo]

Ventilation is key, and a heat sink wouldn’t hurt either. The stock ones that come with CPUs are insufficient and inefficient for any kind of serious gaming, especially one like KSP where adding mods just intensifies the stress and heats things up. If the stress goes on for too long you can warp, and fry your motherboard.

Edited May 23, 2018 by Galileo

[StrandedonEarth]

I thought modern computers had heat sensors and should throttle down, or even shut down, when overheating to prevent damage.

Nonetheless, extended time at high temperatures can eventually cause something to fail. It can be something as simple as cracked solder or a failed capacitor

[invision]

11 hours ago, Galileo said:

Ventilation is key, and a heat sink wouldn’t hurt either. The stock ones that come with CPUs are insufficient and inefficient for any kind of serious gaming, especially one like KSP where adding mods just intensifies the stress and heats things up. If the stress goes on for too long you can warp, and fry your motherboard.

both of my pc's  have stock heat sinks and one is OC 800mhz and the other 1ghz and both only go to about 50c under load. you most likely will never wrap any motherboard unless you threw it into a fire, and even if you managed to get your pc to oven temps they will simply throttle down or shut off.

[Galileo]

14 minutes ago, invision said:

both of my pc's  have stock heat sinks and one is OC 800mhz and the other 1ghz and both only go to about 50c under load. you most likely will never wrap any motherboard unless you threw it into a fire, and even if you managed to get your pc to oven temps they will simply throttle down or shut off.

I have warped 2 mother boards in the last 2 years.

I render a lot of videos for work, so you can indeed warp them. It may be subtle, but they can. It doesn’t take over temps to warp them, just a consistent high heat can do it.

Edited May 24, 2018 by Galileo

[invision]

12 minutes ago, Galileo said:

I have warped 2 mother boards in the last 2 years.

I render a lot of videos for work, so you can indeed warp them. It may be subtle, but they can. It doesn’t take over temps to warp them, just a consistent high heat can do it.

you should look into big cases with 5+ fans, it may sound like an airplane but will keep everything cool.

or perhaps water cool the video card which is where most of the heat is probably coming from

[Fraston]

My computer is a 2015 MACBOOK AIR. It’s a potato, and it can run ksp at 25-30 FPS.

[Galileo]

47 minutes ago, invision said:

you should look into big cases with 5+ fans, it may sound like an airplane but will keep everything cool.

or perhaps water cool the video card which is where most of the heat is probably coming from

That was with a big case with 7 fans I think. I do a lot of really intensive video editing and have practically melted my pc lol 

doesnt help that I overclock everything to squeeze the performance out of it all.

[MechBFP]

6 minutes ago, Galileo said:

That was with a big case with 7 fans I think. I do a lot of really intensive video editing and have practically melted my pc lol 

doesnt help that I overclock everything to squeeze the performance out of it all.

What is the ambient temperature in your house?!

[Galileo]

3 minutes ago, MechBFP said:

What is the ambient temperature in your house?!

Probably between 72-75 degrees Fahrenheit 

[Bill Phil]

Man, thermodynamics is always ruining our fun.

[Fraston]

I guess the hell kraken visited you.

[KerbolExplorer]

On ‎5‎/‎24‎/‎2018 at 4:04 PM, Fraston said:

I guess the hell kraken visited you.

SO IT WASENT FIXED!!!

but his bug is most likely to be the ass kraken

or maybe...A NEW KIND OF KRAKEN

[Vexillar]

And here was me thinking heat was only a problem when it came to fitting enough radiators to a mining base 

[Zeiss Ikon]

My desktop machine gives me no problem (I'm "only" 4.1 GHz max turbo, can't make the overclocking work), with the heat sink that came in the box with the CPU.  System runs 40 C, CPU 62-68 C, and video 54 C or so when playing (or when running BOINC tasks in the background, on all eight cores and the GPU, as I'm doing now as I type).

My laptop, OTOH, with 3.5 GHz turbo, often throttles down as low as 400 MHz for heat control, even if I'm just in the VAB trying to stick parts together to make a spacecraft.  I need to get the thermal paste checked in that machine...

[Geonovast]

47 minutes ago, Zeiss Ikon said:

I need to get the thermal paste checked in that machine...

One does not check thermal paste.  One replaces it.

[Capt. Hunt]

I recently had to replace all four fans in my PC because of dust buildup causing overheating, including the CPU and GPU fans (I needed a better GPU anyway, but it was even worse then the 15 year old case fans).  Don't forget to clean the dust out of your computer periodically.

Edited May 31, 2018 by Capt. Hunt

[LordFerret]

 

[katateochi]

9 hours ago, LordFerret said:

....

I see your dust bunny and raise you an entire rabbit warren 

[adsii1970]

On 5/23/2018 at 9:46 PM, Galileo said:

I have warped 2 mother boards in the last 2 years.

I render a lot of videos for work, so you can indeed warp them. It may be subtle, but they can. It doesn’t take over temps to warp them, just a consistent high heat can do it.

What video editing software do you use?

[Curveball Anders]

No software can kill your computer, unless the computer is poorly designed.

 

[RealKerbal3x]

7 minutes ago, Curveball Anders said:

No software can kill your computer, unless the computer is poorly designed.

 

And in my opinion KSP is not poorly designed.

[Curveball Anders]

5 minutes ago, RealKerbal3x said:

And in my opinion KSP is not poorly designed.

In my opinion KSP _is_ poorly designed.

But if a software kills your hardware then the hardware is poorly designed.