Okay guys, as a couple of you know I'm a moderately avid simracer. Now my problem with this has always been that if you have a wheel mounted to a desk it gets in the way of the keyboard and mouse and if you mount it further away you're generally too far away unless you play on a 60" tv.
I've got my wheel rig separate from my the monitor desk, but if I line up the sim rig then a a separate desk for FPS games is inherently off centre which isn't ideal.
I've been considering either a rolling desk to slide over my sim rig when I'm playing FPS games but then the logistics of that aside, it would necessitate me using wireless peripherals which adds 10 degrees of hassle, mainly in terms of finding a mouse I'd be happy with as nothing really offers everything I want in wireless while a million and one do so in wired forms.
The solution I've come up with is basically to hook up two monitors to the desktop, and have one desk for most gaming and then a separate simrig for my racing. Now my question is, will it be practical to run a setup like this and will it affect my PCs performance? I'm running off of a single 5870 and I'm pretty happy with the performance I get from that at 1080p. Is there decent support for running one one monitor within a dual monitor setup? And could I swap between the two or would it always default to playing on the main screen? I don't imagine having the basic Windows desktop open will add too much strain to the system.
I could also have a twisting platform for a single monitor I guess, but the ideal position for driving for my monitor is far lower than it would be on a desk.
I've got my wheel rig separate from my the monitor desk, but if I line up the sim rig then a a separate desk for FPS games is inherently off centre which isn't ideal.
I've been considering either a rolling desk to slide over my sim rig when I'm playing FPS games but then the logistics of that aside, it would necessitate me using wireless peripherals which adds 10 degrees of hassle, mainly in terms of finding a mouse I'd be happy with as nothing really offers everything I want in wireless while a million and one do so in wired forms.
The solution I've come up with is basically to hook up two monitors to the desktop, and have one desk for most gaming and then a separate simrig for my racing. Now my question is, will it be practical to run a setup like this and will it affect my PCs performance? I'm running off of a single 5870 and I'm pretty happy with the performance I get from that at 1080p. Is there decent support for running one one monitor within a dual monitor setup? And could I swap between the two or would it always default to playing on the main screen? I don't imagine having the basic Windows desktop open will add too much strain to the system.
I could also have a twisting platform for a single monitor I guess, but the ideal position for driving for my monitor is far lower than it would be on a desk.