General computer talk/advice

They had that 64-bit version, but 1.: Yes, it is buggy as fuck, 2.: It still doesn't support all the RAM and crashes if you have too many mods, get over 3.5 (?) GB of RAM usage and so it is not natively supporting 64-bit yet. I got dem recourses (KSP dev team, you should check out the devnote tueesdays, sometimes also as a Thursday edition).

 

Considering I've been in the tester program before, I am well familiar with ksp dev resources.

I've had it hit 6gb with mods

 

That is funny, because I litterally couldn't see because it didn't show up the profile pics before I clicked it.
And: Yup, when you say so, it's fine. You definitely have more experience with BeamNG than me. Though like I said, KSP can take loads and loads of RAM, as you see in SixSixSevenSeven's post over this one here.

@SixSixSevenSeven O....kay? I've had it hit the limit just a while ago. Ummmmmm....... *Awkward situation incoming......*

 

Ah the many school discussions with a mate over how awesome docking will be in KSP, when I had docking a month before anybody else... NDA's are fun.

 

Hm. I think my envy is slowly increasing to a life hesitating level.
Also, are you still a tester? Heard today (Facebook) that v. 1.1 is now in QA.

http://kerbaldevteam.tumblr.com/

 

Not just BeamNG, pretty much any game. GTA V and FO4 are the most RAM-hungry ones I can think of that I play, GTA V has used up to 6GB, as long as you don't have a ton of stuff running in background (usually I just have a bunch of Chrome tabs and Steam), 8GB is fine. Don't have much experience with KSP but unless it hits like 7GB you won't need more RAM.

You only really need 16GB or more if you want to do video editing, multitasking (like, a lot), or running a dedicated server.

My point wasn't that you should under no circumstances get more than 8GB or RAM for gaming, though - it's just a bad idea in a budget build. If you're building a £2000 PC, sure, go for 16GB. If you have £600, get a better graphics card instead.

 

No, my current PC build is in a budget of *checks his .txt on that* €1060, don't ask what that's in pounds.
It has A 6600K, which is a bit better than your CPU, though not as highly clocked, because, well, less powerful fan, the GPU is said GTX960, a lot worse than yours, the Mainboard is a Z170-K, basically yours with a few more external ports and an LGA-1151 socket, and it features a 2TB SSHD, because I had three 1TB HDDs before, that was about 1TB too much, and when buying an SSHD you get four times more memory for your €100 than buying 250GB of HDD. My RAM is the big difference, I use DDR4 @2666Mhz for that (I want to use the PC for many years in the future). My PSU btw is a Corsair CX430.

 

sadly no

 

I am boiling water on an intel celery hotplate i made. idea from this. i then found ground and voltage pins on 775 processor and soldered wires to em

 

Well, at least it's an improvement over my current build's 5450 Silent Series. I want to burn the thing. With 1GB of GDDR3 (?) VRAM, I was achieving 30-40 fps on maps like Allegany, Desert Highway and the like. It was really all I needed until I got Baja Hills. Especially as I have low settings plus reflections as default. As for the SSDs, they are what I have now and after NTFS formatting they only have a TERRIBLE 55.7GB EACH. Which explains the WD Black. RAM? I'm considering some Sony Vegas down the line, 8GB isn't enough for that. Also we already have all the kit AND it's wrapped up. It's a present from my family. As for my CPU? Welp, my current quad core 3GHz sliver of metal and silicon is great. Yes, this is my current CPU. Beam runs great with it.

 

Alright, if you say it works great, I can't say anything against it. Merry Christmas!

@SixSixSevenSeven Oh, man. Just when it became cool.
I'm amazed that there even is/was someone in your class or even school who is not a relative who plays KSP too. :/

 

Hm. This winter is so hot you won't need anything that's warming anything anyways, but it's cool anyway.
Anyone else wanting something like that too?

 

Anything is better than a 5450. Just saying, a 7750 isn't quite good enough for more demanding games. Should be fine for older games though.

Also, it's not NTFS formatting that causes your SSDs to have a lower capacity, it's because the advertised (and actual) storage is 60 Gigabytes (GB) which is base 1000 (so 1 KB = 1000B, 1 MB = 1000KB, 1 GB = 1000MB, etc). Windows (and every other OS) measures storage capacity in Gibibytes (GiB), which are base 1024 (so 1 KiB = 1024B, 1 MiB = 1024KiB, 1 GiB = 1024 MiB, and so on).

So, if you do the math.
60 GB = 60,000,000,000 B
To get the number in GiB you divide by 1024^3 = 1,073,741,824
60,000,000,000 / 1,073,741,824 = 55.87 GiB

Formatting in that case takes up less than 0.2 GiB.

BTW, everything in a computer is measured in base 1024 - download speeds are actually KiB/s, your internet connection speed is actually measured in Mib/s (Mebibits), and so on. We just call them Kilo, Mega, Giga because... I honestly have no idea, I guess it's because 'Kibibyte' sounds funny. But anyway, that's why storage drives always seem to have less space than advertised. Not formatting.

 

Ah.

 

surely 2*60gb costs more than 1*120gb. Just seems like more hassle than its worth

 

Nah. My dad bought home a stock PC with slight enhancements and gave it to me. My brother's one has 1 220GB (?) SSD and I have 2 60GB ones. Otherwise, they are the same. Until tomorrow.
I want to reinstall Windows and put my SSDs in RAID 0 and have the WD Black as my main storage drive. Had this PC for 2 years I think.
Also, I currently have 8GB RAM now and the 7750 we're fitting was only £20.

 

Whow. That thing cost less than my not-great-at-all old Phenom. Although it's a pretty good budget build, that's true. The price/performance ratio is fairly good.

 

If one SSD dies, you've lost everything.

 

Or you could just span the two drives into one partition in the Windows disk manager like I did with my two 300GB 10k drives, that way If one drive fails theirs a 50/50 chance you will get some of your files back. Plus RAID can be a pain in the a$$.

 

Especially if you think about old SSDs being quite unreliable.