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You are running an AMD Sempron 140. It is likely one of the weakest processors on the market. To give an idea of how bad it is, the Pentium D 950 scores a little higher than it does on PassMark. The Pentium D 950 is over eight years old. Minecraft, especially modded Minecraft, needs both a...

Assuming Curse gets to the point where investing in the development of a Linux client is worthwhile.

Have you ever tried writing an application for multiple OSes? Lex didn't go into the details and I won't waste my time with the fine details either as there are plenty of resources that tell you exactly how difficult it truly is. As a programmer you will not spend the majority of your time...

If someone is unwilling to use proper grammar, or at least run an automated spellchecker, then what are the chances they are going to be decent to work with? Just like a

Given how so many people who play Minecraft are on low-end hardware, with Intel HD being very common, it wouldn't surprise me if GregTech were well optimized for such systems.

Precisely. A good gaming system needs both a good processor and a good graphics card. Otherwise one will idle while waiting for the other to catch up. Given that the OP has not stated any details for his GPU, and he is on an Intel processor, I'm going to assume he is using Intel HD. Which is...

What is your GPU?

I've gotten the same attitude over the years and I simply don't run anti-virus any longer. But then I know what sites to avoid and in the event that I don't trust something I can either mail it to myself (Gmail scans for viruses) or check with VirusTotal.

It wasn't particularly obvious so I assumed it was closed source.

FTB launcher not only does not require an account and being logged in, but I believe Curse actually requires itself to be running in the background. Personally I would like to see them open source the current launcher. At the very least it will provide something for those who are on platforms...

It just doesn't seem like there is any benefit. I'm not a fan of having to install a third-party program to run something that could just as easily be stand-alone. Let alone lose functionality as it becomes part of that third-party program. I don't run Linux myself, but Linux support is pretty...

So what exactly is the benefit of going to Curse? Because right now I feel like I should start considering alternatives for FTB. I've never been impressed with anything Curse takes over and it looks like that won't change this time either.

Might as well put up a nice big sign that says "Please, hack me!" as Norton is practically worthless. There are plenty of free alternatives that are far superior to Norton. Uninstall it and go grab one of those.

The Core i5 only brings more cores to the table. An increase of cores, which cannot benefit Minecraft, is about as useful as a frame rate that is way higher than a monitor can display.

Which may sound great, but you would need a monitor capable of displaying all those frames. A 60Hz monitor will show 60 frames and a 120Hz monitor will show 120 frames. Any frames beyond that will be discarded by the GPU.

Wouldn't you see some benefit to two cores with single player since it is technically running a server behind the scenes?

There's a similar thread on LWJGL's forums and they suggested verifying that the graphics drivers are installed properly. http://lwjgl.org/forum/index.php?topic=3123.0

Only when comparing similar models and even then you are far better off researching benchmarks for applications that are known to be single-threaded. Actual clock speed isn't that important and can sometimes be very misleading. For example the Pentium 4 @ 3GHz was slower than the Athlon XP @...

Are you sure he isn't aiming for the "see how far I can push my fans before they finally quit" route? Really I believe any difficulty/challenge should be implemented by the author of the mod and exposed via config settings.

But then he would have to be content with staring at a single block versus an entire warehouse of disk drives.