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Here's a before and after for you! Love this style of videos. More community content please! 

Here's a before and after for you! Love this style of videos. More community content please! 

Here's a before and after for you! Love this style of videos. More community content please! 

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Thank you! Rip Chester 

That's a pretty slick setup.
 
I also support and approve Hybrid Theory.

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My first sim racing setup today vs my very first "setup" from 3 years ago. Surprisingly enough, I am still indeed married.
Gear for those interested:
PC
CPU: 5800X 
GPU: 3070 Founder Edition
Monitors: Samsung CRG9 49 inch, Acer 27 inch curved x2 (left and right) Dell 34 inch (top) I don't know the model numbers off the top of my head
Peripherals: Keyboard- Logitech G915 Mouse - Logitech Gpro Wireless Headphones- Logitech Gpro X Wireless Speakers-Logitech Z533's Webcam-Logitech Brio 4k Logitech Mic- Hyper X Quadcast S
Misc: 1 TB NVME SSD and 1 TB SSD, Corsair H100i AIO, 32 gigs of Corsair Vengeance 3200 mhz Ram. Corsair 5000D Case, Displate DBZ Gpu cover

Sim Racing Gear
Wheelbase and Wheel: Simagic Alpha Ultimate with Simagic GT1R Wireless Wheel
Pedals: VRS Direct Force Pro Pedals
Rig: GT Omega Prime with Gt Omega quad stand alone monitor stand
Shifter: SHH Newt 2 Sequential and H pattern shifter 
Seat: Out of a totaled 2021 Dodge Charger Scat Pack 
Accessories: Buttkicker Gamer Pro, Dayton Audio puck (x4) with Douk 4 channel amp, streamdeck, lots of C by GE and Phillips Hues bulbs
I think that about does it. 

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Agreed, honestly one of the reasons I went with them. I understand delays, I'm not trying to be unreasonable. But an email explaining there is a delay would be the bare minimum I would expect from an SI with a reputation like Origin. 

Hey man! Yes I remember your username! I am still sim racing. I am an Iracing nut lol. I race every Tuesday in a cup league, I'm a team owner there. I still do official races here and there but mostly hosted races with friends/ people I have met on the server. Funny enough I ended up buying a Samsung CRG90 49 inch monitor, not triples lol. Ended up working out really well given the space I have. Here of some photos of how I ended up. Monitor arms were a godsend for me. 🙂 

I know I'm a little late to the party but for sim racing only, i only run iRacing, i would recommend triple 1080p monitors over everything else unless you plan to upgrade to a new rtx 3080 or something along those lines to push triple 1440p panels.  3 good 1080p 144hz 27 inch Monitors can be had for like $150 each and getting 3 panels for $400-600 can be done easily. I set my friend up with 3 asus 27s 144hz as he already had 1. We got one refurbished for $120 and paid 160 for the other new. He runs a 7700k/5700xt and iracing he is typically around 200fps, dips around 140 with alot of cars/night race/ settings on high. He now runs everything on high with the exception of a couple settings on medium and locks his rate at 144, it stays there. The 7700k has a good OC with a 280mm AIO. I was running a 5700xt and went to a 1080ti then 2080ti. I run triple 27 inch 240 hz 1080p monitors, paid $800 for all 3 last black friday. With a 9700k/2080ti i can lock em at 240, all settings high which was my goal. The cpu usage is only like 30 percent or so. Its low. The gpu with triples is maxed. With 1080ti i paid $300 for i was getting average of 240fps but sometimes seeing 150fps or so depending on track/car numbers and settings all on high. When people went unloading 2080ti's, i snagged a FE for $450 and limit fps to 240 in game, it never ever goes lower. I tried without setting the 240hz limit and it was 300-400 high settings with the lowest fps i saw was high 200s. 
TLDR; your cpu is fine, you may get more fps with a good overclock so a good cooler is cheap, get one, mainly get a good gpu, 1080tis are cheap nowadays, get a good one and 3 1080p 144+hz monitors and have a killer setup. I had my triples mounted on a desk with $20 monitor arms prior to buying my 8020 rig and it was solid. I'd find a decent monitor stand and 3 displays. Triples are the best unless you like VR but 1 of the 2 is the only way to go. I had the 49 inch superultrawide prior to getting the triples. It cost more than all 3 of my 240hz panels and the experience was not comparable. I sold that suw, next upgrade will be 1440p or 4k monitors along with a monster gpu but not for a year or 2, i love my setup. 

Quick backstory; long time tech enthusiast, but never really migrated into the pc space until early this year. Got into racing sims on the ps4, needed something more. Wanted to get into Iracing. I wanted to get a good-great 1080p experience. Without knowing if iracing was going to be what i was hoping it would be, I made the decision to not invest a lot of money. I set my sights on a 300 dollar budget.  This is what i did, and imho it's the best and most cost effective way for someone with a budget and who is willing to look on the used market to come out ahead something decent. You don't need the newest shiniest bit of kit to have a great experience
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I found a used Dell Optiplex 7020 , 40 bucks. It happened to have a q87 mobo with an LGA1150 socket.  Got a used 4670k for 60 bucks, a used gtx 1060 mini 6gb for 110, threw in a 240 gig ssd that i had from an old project, and a HD, 16 gigs of ddr3 that i got from crucial for 70 bucks and i was off to the races. Literally, On iracing specifically running all settings on high using a ultrawide 32 inch @ 2560 x 1080 monitor I am getting anywhere between 95-125 fps during a live, filled up race. Alone on track i can get around 150 fps and up. I have less than 300 bucks invested and i couldn't be happier, i had a friend fab me a side panel and i wired in some rgb and its more than enough for me. I just wanted to put this out there because i feel like so many people, including myself initially get swept up in what is the newest, fastest, better than last years thing. When i think it's fair to say the majority of people just want to have a good experience with the game they want to play. Obviously this isn't everyone. I know there are people with a way bigger budget, people that want a system they can show off. But in a weird way i'm just as proud of this as i would be a top tier set up. This was my first build and i made mistakes and struggled at times. But it does exactly what i set out to accomplish. 
 
TLDR; I'm cheap but i'm having fun 

nice build.

oh my bad haha sory thought it was a mining cared.

Cool story, bro!
 
Do you have one of those steering-wheel controller thingies, and if so, what kind?

Imma be honest the only reason I did this much is bc I am a huge fan of sim racing. I normally would have never replied since my experience with multi-monitor setups is pretty weak. 

Love it man! Looks great! I'll add a better photo of mine tomorrow sometime and thank you!

damn crucial sold you ddr3 for the same price as ddr4? f
 
nice build though, love buying used stuff lol

I have to agree. 
You have a nice dell there, I like the window mod, brings me back to the early days of case modding. Good job.
Here is mine, specs in signature.

Just to clarify, i didn't mean that these parts are the best parts, or that i did something better than someone else. It was just an example of whats out there and i to be honest i'm proud of it considering i legit didn't know how to install a cpu 45 days ago. That's all man 
 
Also it does have uefi and your comment about used dells is not accurate. They are everywhere, i even saw one for 15 bucks at one point with an older socket

It does not have a bios without UEFI support.
Also this is a really cool post, please calm down. They were trying to share their experience in a very casual manner, and you basically went "hah, clickbait, just do this for $50-100 more 4head"
Another thing to consider is that people who do things like this, generally dont have that extra 50-100, even if going a little higher is a better value, that doesnt mean they have that money at all. So being able to do something like this is what allows them to have a decent gaming computer in the first place.

I'm glad you are doing iRacing, I don't follow it by I am a huge fan of sim racers. The mid range specs state a minimum of a 6GB 1060. That means most tracks on medium settings (idk what resolution) at playable frame rates, so prob 60 fps. But that is a single monitor. Even on low settings a triple monitor setup requires at least 8GB of VRAM. But then you would hit a CPU bottleneck. In order to upgrade to a triple 1080p monitors, medium setting and other things, you would likely need a whole new system, with at least 6-8 cores, 32 GB of RAM, and a 8GB card. (A 8GB card would look like ass on dirt when using triple monitors as you need to run your shaders on high when racing on dirt) A 1080ti could probably do it on medium with some high settings. 
 
https://www.iracing.com/membership/system-requirements/ <-- You can even download a tool here to see how compatible you are here. 
I know 1080p isn't that big of a deal, but we are also dealing with a large FOV which means more textures and polys are load simultaneously. 
 
Trust me you need a whole system upgrade to do triple monitors. I would recommend a 10600K (I would normally recommend a 3600 but in terms of pure gaming performance the 10600K is superior), an easy and safe overclock, 16-32 GB of RAM (IDK how much iRacing is dependent on RAM, but if you want to save money I would recommend 16GB of DDR4-3000 as the minimum), and then wait for RTX 3000 and Big Navi and buy a new 8GB card. 
Trust me and 8GB RTX 3000 card would almost certainly perform better in triple monitors than a 11GB 1080ti. Like you may need to turn down textures a little bit, but your framerates will be really good. 

AFAIK the ability for a graphics card to send multi-screen output of a single instance can be very hard if the game is not doing it well. IK that iRacing has done it well, but then you still have to deal with the configurations within windows, your Nvidia control panel, and within iRacing, all of which can be a serious headache before you realize that your bezels don't line up with your car's A-pillar and it blocks even more of your screen.
 
If you are ok with a little under 60 fps with lower settings (IDK what the normal graphical settings options in iRacing are, I have never played it, touched, it, and have only seen a couple live streams. So IDK if "max" means ultra or high. Either way you will need to turn it down pretty much everything but AA and shaders. For some reason every livestream I saw that day everyone was capped at 88 fps, it was weird. It was an official iRacing event that youtubers like SuperGT and Jimmy Broadbent were in.) you could probably get away with a 6GB 1060 on an ultrawide just fine with those decreased options. But if you want more than 60 fps 
Ultrawides are good bc it is less cables, a lot less setup, you should be able to spread your HUD out more, and your higher FOV will actually look natural. 
 
If you do want to go with a 3 (1080p) monitor setup, you need a new GPU, and other stuff, it will be expensive, bc you should also consider buying the Asus ROG ABF01 which Anthony reviewed here three months ago, but it is over $100 iirc. 
 
A curved (if you were planning on having the three monitors in a curve around you then you should be fine, if your desk can't do then u will have problems either way) ultrawide is better than a multi monitor setup bc you will get higher FPS bc there is less overhead from the GPU/CPU (I don't actually know, either it is taken care of by the Nvidia drivers and the GPU, or taken care of by Windows on the CPU, idk) having to calculate which part of the scene goes on which monitor. Drawing triangles and textures onto the pixels of three seperate screens could be really hard on a 1060. That means your statement on "similar FOV less work on the GPU" is 100% correct. 
One other big problem with ultrawides, in order to get anything like the combined resolution of a two or three monitor setup, you will have to pay A LOT. An ultra wide that could come close to a 3 monitor setup would have to be 16:5 or 32:9. (3840x1080 (32:9) is just two 1080p screens, but some of them actually allow you to have them split down the middle like two 1080p monitors without one of the side bezels, which is nice if you also have something like a console on the side). At that point we are talking about a starting point of $800 for a single ultrawide curved monitor. They also start at like 120Hz, but you won't hit that with a 1060-6GB. You need a GPU upgrade tho if u are going this far (for this much $), and I would recommend a used 1070ti, bc the extra clock speeds and 2GB more VRAM will help a lot. Used prices afaik are around $375 USD and up. This means spending a lot of time on ebay and craigslist. 
 
Or for less money you could overclock your CPU and buy a VR headset and have even more fun in iRacing. Availability of VR headsets might be low, but you can get a Oculus Rift S, a really good budget headset for $400-500. You prob don't need to even upgrade your graphics card, just use MSI Afterburner to overclock it a little bit and if your CPU and case cooling is good overclock your CPU too. You bought a K processor, it could become obsolete very soon, so why not make it relevant for a little bit longer with an overclock. Just remember to download a HW monitoring and temp monitoring program like HWInfo too. 
 
Remember, none of this comes from any of my experience. I have never owned anything above a 1070, that 1070 was hooked up to a single monitor and a HTC Vive, and I have never played with ultrawides, more than 2 screen setups, dual or more screen gaming, or iRacing. If you do follow through with my advice, you are then on your own when it comes to configuring everything correctly bc I have no fucking clue. 
 
I hope my over 1 hour of research for you is useful. Please put a react on all of the posts I have here and make sure to mark either this post or the one you quoted as "the answer."

Hey man, first of all thank you so much for all your input. You obviously know your stuff. Let me run this by you though. I am running 32 gb of ddr3 ram.  So i have been playing Iracing for about 1 month now. Iracing will legit run on a potato. I got it running on low settings on a Thinkpad with a dual core i5 and onboard intel graphics. It's kind of known within the community that the "minimum specs" are a joke. With that being said, on a single 1080 screen with all settings maxed out i am getting 120-150 fps at any given time during a live race. Any idea if that makes a difference in your answer, or does it remain the same? Lastly, what do you think about a single high quality ultrawide (similar FOV way less work on the gpu) it seems to be catching on within the sim community, obviously everyone has a preference. Thanks again.