Quantum Computer

The Quantum Computer is used together with the Research station to progress further in the game. It is first required in UV-tier to research the Assembly Line-Datastick for the UHV-Mainframe. As both are TecTech multiblocks they come with all the benefits like support for Laser-Hatches and the energy passthrough option.

Construction
For general construction refer to the Multiblock Structure Hologram Projector.

The Quantum Computer has a variable size, ranging from 5 to 16 blocks. The Multiblock Structure Hologram Projector shows you the smallest version with only 2 Computer Racks, however you may repeat the slice with the Computer Racks up to 12 times for a total of 24 Computer Racks. You need to equip it with an Uncertainty Resolver, a Maintenance Hatch and an Energy Hatch. It also requires an Optical Master Connector, which is used to connect the Quantum Computer with the Research Station (or other Quantum Computers, if you want to chain them).

The Optical Connectors need to be connected with Optical Fiber Cables, both the connectors and cables need to be colored in the same color to work. The picture below shows an example for a complete setup with two Quantum Computers.



Setup and Usage
The Quantum Computer requires 1A UV + 1A UV for every Computer Rack to work (Important: It does actually use a full amp of UV! So keep in mind that you may have to account for losses if for example you feed it exactly 4A from an 4A dynamo). Though the needed voltage can be lowered or be even higher when you mess with overclock and overvolt of the Quantum Computer. The power is constantly consumed so it is suggested to turn the multiblock off when not in use. Computer Racks need to be equiped with Circuits to generate computation and IC2 Heat Vents to help dissipate the heat.

Uncertainty Resolver
The Uncertainy Resolver is a puzzle that needs to be solved in order to make use of the Quantum Computer. In the interface you can see the Schrödinger-Matrix in the middle and buttons to the left and right. Clicking on one button and then another will switch the states of the two corrosponding entries in the matrix. The goal of the puzzle is to balance the matrix In the sense that two opposite squares should not differ from each other too much (Don't have a too different blinking pattern from one another). Both indicator need to be green in order to solve the uncertainty.



Computer Rack
Computer Racks may be equipped with Circuits and Heat Vent. When operating each Computer Rack generated computation and heat. When a Computer Rack still has heat left it should not be broken or else it will explode. It will also explode when exceeding the max temperature of its circuits. Both the computation and the accumulated heat in % (10.000 beeing 100%) can be viewed by scanning the Computer Rack with a portable scanner.

For a start the Quest book recommends two racks with 3 Crystalprocessor Mainframes and 1 Advanced Heat Vent each. This will provide you with 180 computation which will be enough for a while. However it seems that currently the Graphics Card T3 is pretty much the better option. Using one Graphics Card T3 together with three Advanced Heat Vents provides you with 130 Computation/s per Rack, plus it is pretty cheap.

Following is a list of stats of each Circuit starting from LuV with some notable additions (Circuits below LuV are possible too but probably irrelevant at this point)

Following Components can be used for heat dissipation:

Below is the algorithm that was extracted from the source code of TecTech. With this algorithm you can simulate a combination of components within the rack and get the temperature at which it stabilizes. Use at your own risk.

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Overclocking
To overclock and overvolt the Quantum Computer you have to add a Parametrizer to it. For the Quantum Computer you can only edit the Parameters at index 0. When opening the GUI you see four values:
 * First: Temperature of the Quantum Computer
 * Second: Computation of the Quantum Computer
 * Third: Overclock of the Quantum Computer
 * Forth: Overvolt of the Quantum Computer



Using the buttons you can increase/decrease both the Overclock and Overvolt on its own. The bottom-most buttons are used to divide or multiply both values. When messing with the parameters keep the following in mind:


 * Changing the Overclock has a big impact on computation and a small impact on heat
 * Changing the Overvolt has a small impact on computation and a big impact on heat
 * The Overvolt needs to be at least 0.7 to generate computation. But if it is less than 0.8 there is a chance that a component will not generate computation in this tick. So set it to 0.8 to make sure you always get all of the computation
 * The used voltage is 524.288 * overclock * overvolt. so you can save power by having these lower than 1.0 or increase the needed power by using more than 1.0.