If you've read the art of game design or a similar book, you'll find that in FTB, most of the fun is had through the problem solving.

You have to give problems to solve to the player, hard ones if you must, but you must not hinder the player in his attempts to solve it. The player should be as free as possible to solve your problems any way he likes

When the player finds a shortcut, he receives some instant gratification. As a developper, you may hate shortcuts as they cut content from the player's experience. But the short-term gratification can be worth it. Letting the player skip some of the game's content isn't dramatic. And this is what makes Minecraft's replayability.

# Feels good:

Problem solving

• Using a combination of redpower tubes, buildcraft pipes and all the mothers of all the different pipes to do something very specific.
  
• Easily popping up a computer and taking 15-30min to code something simple and portable to solve an easy problem
  
• I remember fondly the days of power converters. They made sense, were easy to craft, easy to use, and switching between the different energies was pretty fun. They were the source of lots of game breaking exploits, though. :|
  
• Convenience vs efficiency trades. I once played on a server where tesseracts were costly but lossless and transceivers were early game but very lossy, I can't go back. It's SO much better that way. You could always rely on transceivers to help you solve problems quickly and you could optimize down the road if you wanted to by switching to cables or to tesseracts (not always easy btw).
  
• Multiple alternate manners to obtain items and solve problems.
  
  • Gregtech was great at this with electrolyzers and centrifuging
    
  • Ex Nihilo is also great at this
    
• Cross-mod """"exploits"""". Uncrafting something that wasn't meant to be uncrafted, weird ways to generate energy... when they aren't game breaking, I love cross mod interactions.
  
  

  Feels bad:
  

  
  Tediousness
  
  

• Unnecessary steps in crafting. Go flatten your iron with a hammer, then cut it into stripes, then apply some rubber (<= which you had to harvest, extract, cook) and you get a cable.
  
• Spending 15 minutes to setup a computer and its power supply. Stop coding at least five times to craft all the modules you need.
  
• Unnecessary cable management because tesseracts/dimensional transceivers/etc are pretty costly early game
  
• Very mandatory yet almost useless machines (blast furnaces, coke ovens, vats, canning machines, QED...)
  
• Shitty power conversion problems. "Use copper wires, they're magical"
  
• Costly kind of cables that you can't get early game
  
  Stopping me, breaking my inertia, by asking me to do some weird task
  
  When you place a wall down my road and the only way to get past it is to jump, be careful, maybe I don't like to jump; add a window, a door, explosives, portals, anything.
  
  
• Screw you, you need to activate that division sigil (AGAIN) to do the thing.
  
• Being too lazy to start using a mod that's disconnected with everything else. Botania, for instance. Or blood magic. Or Psi.
  
• Screw you, you need to make an X farm again. The same as the last one.
  
  • In sky factory, there are lots of good ways to get wither skulls... I almost cried. It was amazing.
    
  • There's also lots of good ways to get draconium
    
    Mixed feelings:
    
    
• Big numbers. Draconic evolution stuff, pointless power generation, pointless ressource gathering. Perfecting your craft, even if there's no point, and seeing the numbers glorifying your accomplishment is the backbone of the game
  
  Alternately, when a mod relies too heavily on grinding and isn't automateable easily, it gets annoying. The grind isn't what's fun, the wait isn't what's fun, refining your machinery and scaling up your contraptions is where the fun is at.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08128ZYV1/ref=sspa_mw_detail_0?ie=UTF8&psc=1

This guy looks substantially better for a couple hundred extra.

This might be a good place to start.

This might work...

https://www.amazon.com/Eathtek-Replacement-MSI-GE60-GE70/dp/B00Z9H81AK

....however, in my case, I just hard wired the AC adapter directly to the power cables in the notebook.

AC adapter couldn't be disconnected from the computer anymore, but I never use it on battery, so I was ok with that solution.

Don't know how it might work for you, so good luck.

Also, for cheaper but I've never heard of this company:

https://nbparts.shop/en/home/33-dc-power-jack-for-msi-ge60-ge70-k10-3006122-h39.html

I would rather go with this since my 1 mSATA slot is used by a wireless card and normal SATA SSDs are faster anyway. But idk if having it on an SSD actually help with my enormous CPU and RAM usage.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-Technology-120GB-Solid-2-5-inch/dp/B00A1ZTZOG/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1417993989&sr=1-1&keywords=kingston+120gb

Yea most likely get a tube of artic silver https://www.amazon.com/Arctic-Silver-AS5-3-5G-Thermal-Paste/dp/B0087X728K/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1486774836&sr=1-1&keywords=arctic+silver

make sure to wipe the old paste off the cooler.

I think they're overrated and can only get things cool but not chilled.

I prefer reusable plastic IceCube s

It's also on Amazon from JINX, who don't sell it on their website (presumably for legal reasons)

I used a Core i3 for years running modded servers but recently with 1.7.10 the performance has gotten to be shit with large mod packs so I upgraded to a HP Xeon Microserver. These work beautifully. You'll need more RAM and it will likely need to be ECC.

HP ProLiant ML10 v2 Tower Server System Xeon E3-1220v3 3.1 GHz
https://www.amazon.com/HP-ProLiant-Server-E3-1220v3-Standard/dp/B00X3H3ELY/ref=pd_lpo_147_bs_t_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=RNXB2RXFE26XQ40FW6VK

My RAM is two of these: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B005T63BJM

According to your PC specs, you have 4 ram slots and only 2 should be occupied atm. It's DDR3 style RAM so it's super cheap.

I'll edit with a link to something that should work. Here

https://www.amazon.com/Dell-15-6-Inch-Quad-Core-i5-6300HQ-Processor/dp/B015PYYDMQ/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1480011213&sr=1-2&refinements=p_n_intended_use_browse-bin%3A9647497011

https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Ideapad-700-GeForce-80RU00FEUS/dp/B01FJFN872/ref=sr_1_30?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1480011264&sr=1-30&refinements=p_n_intended_use_browse-bin%3A9647497011

Here are my specs
Acer Predator Helios 300 Gaming Laptop, Intel Core i7, GeForce GTX 1060, 15.6" Full HD, 16GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, G3-572-7526 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0756TR4ZR/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_r7lQCbEMHHFN2

And as for fps i can run ftb revelation with ray tracing texture pack: https://www.patreon.com/sonicether

I allocate 12 gb of ram and it runs usually between 60-120 fps depending on what is going on ingame

Is this helpful ?

Yeah. The 1050ti is the weakest card you should probably even buy.
https://www.amazon.com/ZOTAC-GeForce-DisplayPort-128-bit-ZT-P10510A-10L/dp/B01MCU1ERO/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1503102132&sr=1-3&keywords=1050ti

Found it:

https://www.amazon.com/JINX-Minecraft-Portrait-Poster-Picture/dp/B00WNEU3B2

Look at the second image for that product.

So, now we have two questions. How did JINX decide to use modded Minecraft for their product, and why did Minecraft Merch steal the picture from them.

EDIT: As someone else pointed out, JINX does the merchandise for Mojang. So, it shouldn't be so surprising that this image appears both places.

crap this is why it takes me so long to choose PC parts.

I really appreciate the info by the way. I don't often have money to buy components so I don't have experience with more than a couple individual parts, so most of what I know is from what I hear. I apologize for the ignorance.

If you don't mind answering another question, do you think the Ryzen 5 2600x would be able to run Battlefield 5 if paired with a Radeon RX 470?