Yeah thats how tekkit is, it has mods such as buildcraft, industrailcraft, redpower2, mistcraft, and a lot others so it will lag. My advice is to turn render down and make graphics fast instead of fancy that should help.
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Devil il see what I can do, lol I can make a sand duplicator, a digital clock and a 9 combination lock on normal minecraft and yet I can barely make simple contraptions like hooking up wire from a solar panel to a batbox. Lol