Budget Race Rig for my Son
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This is a lovely project and very well done for sticking to such a minimal budget. Forget wanting something like this when I was a kid, I want it now! 
have you had a go yourself?
It's got me thinking that perhaps I need to look at one of those fold up race seats. I really don't have the space to have it out all the time but with a vr headset I wouldn't need to worry about a monitor so could keep it (relatively) minimal...
have you had a go yourself?It's got me thinking that perhaps I need to look at one of those fold up race seats. I really don't have the space to have it out all the time but with a vr headset I wouldn't need to worry about a monitor so could keep it (relatively) minimal...
Thanks all! My Son loves it. He's been playing the delivery missions on BeamNG.
I've had a go, I used to learn the UK tracks a few years ago on the older version of the wheel (G920) when I was racing in MSV, EnduroKA. It's quite addictive, esp when you get the car set-up. I've said to my son I'm going to set a lap time on a different track each week, he's got to beat my time to earn some pocket money
Performance wise, it's pretty decent. Everything we have thrown at it hits the V-Sync 60fps cap. This evening I've had some issues with my main PC so have been using it.
I've had a go, I used to learn the UK tracks a few years ago on the older version of the wheel (G920) when I was racing in MSV, EnduroKA. It's quite addictive, esp when you get the car set-up. I've said to my son I'm going to set a lap time on a different track each week, he's got to beat my time to earn some pocket money
Performance wise, it's pretty decent. Everything we have thrown at it hits the V-Sync 60fps cap. This evening I've had some issues with my main PC so have been using it.
A small but decent upgrade.
I've been having issues with my main PC, so this Race rig has been used to troubleshoot! Long story short, but I ended up swapping out my Power Supply and RMA'ing my RAM. Whilst looking around I found a Boxed AMD Ryzen 5600x on FB Market for £40. It was listed with "Problems" Apparently standard boost clocks were unstable and I would have to clock it back slightly. Given it not far from me I took a punt - with a view of upgrading my other Son's gaming rig (Ryzen 2700x, 32Gb RAM and a rx6600)
Picked it up and of course it's perfect. No stability issues at all, therefore my Son Freddie got a nice upgrade.
This means, I could upgrade the gaming Rig's 1700 to a 2700x. All installed and working well!
Ollie's still enjoying the "Slightly" upgraded race rig now. Using the Assetto Corsa with an MSV EnduroKA modification pack that I used to use when racing. Ollie got with in a couple of tenths of me. Fantastic job!
I've been having issues with my main PC, so this Race rig has been used to troubleshoot! Long story short, but I ended up swapping out my Power Supply and RMA'ing my RAM. Whilst looking around I found a Boxed AMD Ryzen 5600x on FB Market for £40. It was listed with "Problems" Apparently standard boost clocks were unstable and I would have to clock it back slightly. Given it not far from me I took a punt - with a view of upgrading my other Son's gaming rig (Ryzen 2700x, 32Gb RAM and a rx6600)
Picked it up and of course it's perfect. No stability issues at all, therefore my Son Freddie got a nice upgrade.
This means, I could upgrade the gaming Rig's 1700 to a 2700x. All installed and working well!
Ollie's still enjoying the "Slightly" upgraded race rig now. Using the Assetto Corsa with an MSV EnduroKA modification pack that I used to use when racing. Ollie got with in a couple of tenths of me. Fantastic job!