Gaming PC, budget £1000+

[smashing666]

Hi all,

I've previously bought a PC to run my simulator off (3 x HD projectors and image correction software) and wish to buy another as I've started a similar project. Seeing as I bought the PC components in 2011, I imagine technology has moved on and was hoping someone could recommend a similar or better spec/performance capacity as my last machine.

Thanks!

Julian

Old spec:

Asus ATI Radeon HD 6950 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £213.59
(£177.99) £427.18
(£355.98)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £165.59
(£137.99) £165.59
(£137.99)
Asus P8P67 PRO Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) £137.99
(£114.99) £137.99
(£114.99)
XFX Pro 650W Core Edition Power Supply £68.99
(£57.49) £68.99
(£57.49)
Coolermaster CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case - Black £61.26
(£51.05) £61.26
(£51.05)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM 1yr Warranty (ST31000528AS) £37.99
(£31.66) £37.99
(£31.66)
OCZ Platinum 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Ultra Low Voltage Dual Channel Kit (OCZ3P1600C9ELV4GK) £29.99
(£24.99) £29.99
(£24.99)
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3/775/1155/1156/1366) £20.99
(£17.49) £20.99
(£17.49)
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
(£11.66) £13.99
(£11.66)

 

[smashing666]

Can't use any of the older parts.

As for the simulator software, will most likely be rfactor. A point worth mentioning is that with my two Radeon's in crossfire mode, I couldn't run maximum graphics settings, so I wouldn't really like o drop to a single GPU?

What are my options?

 

[smashing666]

Res: 5760X1080

 

[smashing666]

Thanks for that. And what would the typical budget be if I wanted to retain 2 GPU's?

Thanks

Julian

 

[smashing666]

Look at the only sensible spec above and minus the cost of the GPU. Sorry, but the others seem to have overcomplicated a simple spec with unnecessary hardware.

Thanks, so would you just keep that and just put two Radeon GPUs?

 

[smashing666]

One more quick thing about the AMD GPU set up. I wanted to toggle between different desktop configurations (presets), and it was something that wasn't possible as you couldn't have one setup with crossfire enabled and another with it disabled to allow use of the lower GPU deck ports. The reason I require this feature is because I'd like to toggle between a desktop display, to the simulator screen, composed of three projectors. Would an nvidia setup make this possible?

Thanks