My newest computer build

[FirstSecondThird]

Here, I am going to tell you the specs of my new PC designed specifically for Modding and Playing KSP.

CPU: AMD Athlon II x4 630 @ 2.80 GHz (4 cores) (which is the best CPU I could find off of Newegg)

GPU: AMD Mobility Radeon HD 4200 @ 1.25 GHz (Modified) (I tinkered with it to make it better for gaming)

RAM: 4.00 GB + PAE DDR3 @ 6.75 GHz (to make it use all 4 Gigs of RAM)

HDD: 1 TB (to make it have as many saves as it can, without sacrificing performance for other games too!)

I am nicknaming it, "The Kraken's Worst Nightmare".

In the computer market in Hungary, there's not many choices for CPU's and GPU's, as right now in Hungary (Because I am visiting my family's house, and they live Hungary), the economy is in weakness right now, and I couldn't find anything that you guys could find over there in the USA.

Edited November 10, 2014 by FirstSecondThird

[Kamuchi]

As my gaming pc for Star Citizen.

Rampage 4 (pending update)

i7 3960X 4.5ghz (pending update)

16gb RipJaws 2133mhz (pending update)

4x 290R DD

1500+1000w psu`s

windows ssd, games ssd, 3tb trash

End of the week when the rampage 5`s are in stock:

Rampage 5

5960X

16gb HyperX 3000mhz

5 loop watercooling already scatterd on the floor

I call it "idiot`s guide for throwing away money"

[Red Iron Crown]

CPU: AMD Athlon II x4 630 @ 2.80 GHz (4 cores) (which is the best CPU I could find off of Newegg)

You did not look very hard.

Also, holy carp Kamuchi that's a powerful PC, pretty sure I've bought cars that were less expensive.

[soulsource]

My PC, which is just capable of running KSP at an acceptable framerate (mainly due to my megalomania when it comes to part counts), has following components:

CPU: AMD FX-6350

GPU: Radeon R9 270X

Ram: 8GB DDR3-1333

Storage: 30 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD

OS: Gentoo Linux (64 bit, of course)

I call it Sir Crashalot, thanks to the latest AMD RadeonSI graphics driver updates, which boost both, performance and crash rate...

As said, performance with KSP is acceptable, but could be better (the ingame clock is yellow most of the time...). Do you think it's the old RAM I'm using, or more likely the CPU?

[ZedNova]

My PC, which is just capable of running KSP at an acceptable framerate (mainly due to my megalomania when it comes to part counts), has following components:

CPU: AMD FX-6350

GPU: Radeon R9 270X

Ram: 8GB DDR3-1333

Storage: 30 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD

OS: Gentoo Linux (64 bit, of course)

I call it Sir Crashalot, thanks to the latest AMD RadeonSI graphics driver updates, which boost both, performance and crash rate...

As said, performance with KSP is acceptable, but could be better (the ingame clock is yellow most of the time...). Do you think it's the old RAM I'm using, or more likely the CPU?

It's probably because you're using Linux, AMD doesn't do a very good job on their drivers for it.

I used Linux for a month or so while i was deciding between different versions of windows, and KSP's performance on it sucked until i switched. I used their catalyst control center on both OSs.

Edited November 10, 2014 by ZedNova

[FirstSecondThird]

You did not look very hard.

Also, holy carp Kamuchi that's a powerful PC, pretty sure I've bought cars that were less expensive.

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Ok, okay guys. You've embarrassed me enough! I am literally crying my eyes out! I wanted only feedback! I thought it was pretty good overall because I am not very rich like you guys. My family is poor and I can barely pay for my own college education without Financial Aids, and I could barely afford my PC on it's own. So now you hear me! I can't even afford things as good as your computers.

"The dimmest of lights must eventually burn out" -FirstSecondThird (Translated to English from Hungarian)

[Red Iron Crown]

Ok, okay guys. You've embarrassed me enough! I am literally crying my eyes out! I wanted only feedback! I thought it was pretty good overall because I am not very rich like you guys. My family is poor and I can barely pay for my own college education without Financial Aids, and I could barely afford my PC on it's own. So now you hear me! I can't even afford things as good as your computers.

Easy there, no one's making fun of you. I play on an old Core 2 Duo, there's no shame in not being able to afford a high end gaming rig. Paying for your education is definitely a bigger priority than a gaming PC.

I am curious how your new PC manages to have a desktop processor and a mobile GPU.

[NFUN]

To be fair, Red Iron Crown, that was the best PC parts that he could buy in Hungary, so his selection might have been limited a bit. Technically you would be right though, I'm sure Newegg lists pc parts that aren't available in every country.

[Red Iron Crown]

It's a five year old processor. I find it hard to imagine that no PC parts have entered Hungary since 2009, but I suppose it is possible or maybe the OP just didn't come across any when shopping.

[Bilfr3d]

Whats an i3? My main computer I play KSP on has a dual core Pentium clocked at 2.2Ghz. And the GPU is a GTX 240. So yea. Although that recently changed to something more powerful, it was my main gaming PC for about 4-5 years.

[Kamuchi]

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Ok, okay guys. You've embarrassed me enough! I am literally crying my eyes out! I wanted only feedback! I thought it was pretty good overall because I am not very rich like you guys. My family is poor and I can barely pay for my own college education without Financial Aids, and I could barely afford my PC on it's own. So now you hear me! I can't even afford things as good as your computers.

"The dimmest of lights must eventually burn out" -FirstSecondThird (Translated to English from Hungarian)

No one making fun of you, even with a beast of a multi core cpu, some older cpu`s might run physics faster as duo/quad core wich can reach higher speeds.

Aslong as ksp physics is single threaded, we`re all in the same boat

Poor, ok`ish to spend or filty rich doesn`t matters a single bit.

Aslong as you can do/play what you enjoy, even if limited in some ways, family&friends then you are rich.

As they say, you can`t by happiness, have a billion dollars in the bank won`t change you abit besides material stuff of wich you get bored off pretty fast.

I thought this thread was going into "my next pc upgrade" as it wasn`t a question regarding the hardware, it`s being done every where so my appologies if it came as a rub-in reply as that wasn`t intended

[nine_iron]

Spend as much as you like on a PC,software is the limitation at the moment. Anything above what I got 7 years ago, an i7 920 (which still performs very well with an updated GPU) is limited very much by the programs we run.

I can get about 70% out of top end games, I ran the latest tomb raider WITH the weird hair thing on and still got playable frame rates. Yes I OCed my rig, Yes I got a free RAM upgrade, YES I bought a new GPU for it 2 or 3 years ago (0nly 1GB RAM though, the idiot I was) BUT I doubt I would notice much of a difference (without FPS rate showing) for most games if I moved from 70% to 100% of graphics settings.

Unless I was taking screenshots of course

The i7 920 was a beast, still is 7 years later (all at 3.8) and I doubt I will change it for another 3-4 years (unless it dies). I can squeeze 4 out of it but its a very early i7 920, the early stepping versions run 3.8 stable but struggle close to 4. I only got it to 4 for benchmarking purposes.

If you are interested in benchmarking and overclocking then the current rigs are a dream, for 80% of programs and games you can throw together something very cheap with a decent GPU and play almost anything on decent enough settings smoothly. Unless you are VERY niche program user, your rig is fine my Hungarian friend!