How would these system specs work?

[michaelsteele3]

So I'm getting a new laptop within a week.

Here are the specs I can remember:

6 GB RAM

Intel Core i7

Ghz: 2.3-3.1 (something like that)

How would this work with KSP FPS wise?

[Janos1986]

Pretty good actually, KSP is resource-hungry depending on playstyle more than graphic-wise.

8GB of RAM would be a bit better, dual channel symmetry and all, it should run pretty smooth and handle quite a bunch of parts though.

[Blo0d]

The i7 might b overkill but nobody gonna cry about that!

[ShawnPhillips]

The i7 might b overkill but nobody gonna cry about that!

An i7 is never overkill. I need to be able to crash a 250+ part ship without any lag while playing on a 4K monitor.

michaelsteele3, your PC should be fine. My i5 laptop with similar specs runs it fine, won't keep up with my desktop PC, but has no problem running at 1920x1080 on medium settings.

[michaelsteele3]

In range, what would the FPS possibly be? I'm just so excited for this.

[_Aramchek_]

It's a laptop, it will be ok, but not even close to what the desktop versions of those specs would get you.

[Camacha]

Guys, i7 says very little, it is like saying a car has a 4 litre engine. It might be good, it might be so-so. Ideally you want a high single threaded speed for KSP, so an i5 with 3 GHz is going to do better than an i7 at 2,5 GHz, assuming both are of an equal generation.

Also, the 6 GB RAM suggests it might be a triple channel setup, which would mean it is a rather old i7. Do you know anything more specific than this?

[Guest]

It'll be decent but KSP really does require some GPU horsepower too.

[cantab]

Depending on the exact i7, and for that matter the laptop's screen resolution, probably reasonable. I'd guess somewhere between 30 and 60 fps on small ships that aren't CPU-limited. Not sure the part count where lag, caused by being CPU-limited, would start to kick in.

But knowing the exact model would really help.

[michaelsteele3]

It has turbo boost for the GHz that can boost it somewhere into the 3.0's

[Camacha]

It has turbo boost for the GHz that can boost it somewhere into the 3.0's

To be honest, that is all a bit vague. It is like trying to describe a car by saying it is red and has a V6 engine

[michaelsteele3]

To be honest, that is all a bit vague. It is like trying to describe a car by saying it is red and has a V6 engine

Yeah lol.

All I know is how it kicks the turbo into gear and then it's somewhere in the mid-3.0's

[cantab]

To be honest if you can't find out the actual model number that's not a sign of a good-quality properly-marketed computer. I would expect it to be stated reasonably prominently in the specifications. The i7 brand has been around for about five years and the old ones are a lot slower than the latest generation even at the same clock speeds. Add in that Intel have quite happily slapped the i7 brand on dual-core laptop CPUs - for context, that's like an i3 in a desktop - and it's fair to say that "i7, about 2.1 GHz, about 3 GHz turbo" is all but meaningless. It's like saying a car is a "Ford Focus, 4-cylinder petrol engine", without knowing the year and the engine size.

[michaelsteele3]

To be honest if you can't find out the actual model number that's not a sign of a good-quality properly-marketed computer. I would expect it to be stated reasonably prominently in the specifications. The i7 brand has been around for about five years and the old ones are a lot slower than the latest generation even at the same clock speeds. Add in that Intel have quite happily slapped the i7 brand on dual-core laptop CPUs - for context, that's like an i3 in a desktop - and it's fair to say that "i7, about 2.1 GHz, about 3 GHz turbo" is all but meaningless. It's like saying a car is a "Ford Focus, 4-cylinder petrol engine", without knowing the year and the engine size.

Nah. I just forgot it after 1 day

But under the computers they listed all of the system specs. And one of the salesperson typed in the ID and it showed the rest of them. She then explained most of it, and it all seemed good. At least, on my scale for a $530 laptop.

[michaelsteele3]

It came 6 days earlier than expected! Yay! KSP Works great!