Iracing & F1 build help

[saxmaster]

Hi all

Total tech recluse here, my knowledge is simply get the latest Apple product

Looking for pc for sim racing titles only.

I’m not adverse to building it myself, however if the price difference for a pre built is negligible I’d go that route.

Budget wise £800-£1000

Future proofing isn’t so much of a concern I’d be happy with 3 years life expectancy as I’m sure by then the novelty would have worn off and I’ll go back to console.

Screen wise I’ve the - aoc 49’’

AG493UCX2​

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[Tetras]

Screen wise I’ve the - aoc 49’’

AG493UCX2​

Wow, the resolution is enormous

Are you hoping to play your racing games at that resolution?

 

[Craig_d1]

Wow, the resolution is enormous

Are you hoping to play your racing games at that resolution?

pixel count 7,372,800 vs 8,294,400 for 4k monitor..ouch..right up there in the 4k pixel pushing category



@saxmaster as you're happy with 3yrs life and no upgrade, being sim racing, I'd go am4 build with the 5700x3d. you'll want the cache of x3d for sim racing, and you'll need to save as much as possible for the gpu...even then not sure it'll be enough. you'll want something like a 4070super to push those pixels and that's £569 at mo just for the gpu.
be aware though am4 has been replaced with am5 platform

4070super just too expensive...going new best I could do...you could prob shave a bit getting cheaper case/psu etc


My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D Eight Core 4.1GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-01799) = £194.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX Black 32GB (2x16GB) 3600 MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned DDR4 Memory Dual Kit (CMK32GX4M2Z3600C18) (SKU: MY-4CL-CS) = £49.99
• 1 x Team Group MP44L 1TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-TMG-03128) = £49.99
• 1 x Asus TUF Gaming B550-Plus WIFI II (AMD AM4) B550 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6HX-AS) = £119.99
• 1 x Asus TUF Gaming 750W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply (SKU: CA-061-AS) = £79.99
• 1 x Montech AIR 903 Base Midi-Tower Tempered Glass - Black (SKU: CAS-MON-01227) = £49.99
• 1 x Arctic Freezer 36 120m Black CPU Cooler - 2x 120mm (SKU: COO-ARC-02420) = £23.00
• 1 x Asrock Radeon RX 7800 XT Challenger OC 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ASR-02993) = £449.98

Total: £1,017.92 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

below he explains a bit about cpu/gpu pairing..5700x3d more than enough for the gpu...gpu will be the limiting factor..as the monitor is superwide, it's pushing a lot of pixels, so you can compare it to a 2 1440p screen side by side. the 7800xt is slightly slower than the 6900xt(previous gen but level up), but fairly close and the 6900xt is pushing 3 1440p screens so being worked harder..so hopefully you'll get something similar in performance by the end

below is relative performance and you can see the 6900xt is 3% faster than the 7800xt, so not much in it, and the 7800xt will only be pushing the equivalent of 2 1440p screens, not 3 as in the vid below

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT Review

With the Radeon RX 7800 XT, AMD is going after the GeForce RTX 4070. Our review confirms that AMD has achieved performance parity in rasterization and is pretty close in ray tracing, at a much better price point, and they are giving you 16 GB VRAM, instead of just 12 GB.

www.techpowerup.com

so below is a 6900xt and 5800x3d pushing 3 x 1440p screns sim racing. 5800x3d is slightly faster cpu than the 5700x3d, but not much in it at 4k, and it's out of stock as production finished and generally another £100...so not worth it