Gaming PC’s (for racing)

[DeanR32]

Evening all

I keep toying with the idea of making up a gaming computer. I love racing on the consoles, and this seems the logical next step.

I know absolutely nothing about building computers though. What is involved in building a PC powerful enough to play online racing games (thinking iRacing or R Factor)?

Cheers guys

[Shiv_P]

Depends on your budget ultimately, and what parts you already have. Generally you may already have keyboard, mouse, monitor. Do you have a wheel to use with it?

[DeanR32]

Mate, I don’t have any of it. I’ve been looking at monitors and the tower part, but all the specs just confuse me.

I’d love to use a half decent wheel to race though

[Shiv_P]

Do you have any idea of budget?

Using brand new parts, you could probably get a desktop suitable for around £600-700 for iRacing - it isn't a particularly demanding game to run and this machine would be easily upgradeable in the future. You'd be looking at perhaps a Ryzen 5 3600, 16GB RAM, RTX 2060 and that would smash through iRacing and rFactor 2. You could also look at used parts to save some £, or a lower spec machine if you only intend to play those two games.

Then you're talking ~£200 for a Logitech G29 wheel (again can buy used G27 etc), £40 for a basic keyboard + mouse, and perhaps £200-300 if you wanted a nice monitor, or £150 for a basic one.

Do you have any idea at all what you'd want to spend? I can help you pick some parts just so you can get an idea...

[defblade]

Probably worth looking here: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...