Racing Sim setup using PC in another room.

demon8991 · 8 Sep 2022 at 05:24

Hey All,

I have recently purchased a TrakRacer TR8 Pro cockpit as I am getting into sim racing.

Currently my PC is located in my office/study and I want to run my sim rig in another room with a TV hopefully @ 4k 120hz.

I would like to know the best way of doing this as I will need to pass HDMI 2.1 and USB to the room where my rig will be from my study which I think shouldn't be more than 15m-20m away (in cable length).

My thoughts were optical HDMI and USB however I don't know what cables are good and capable of providing what I am after.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, the PC I will be using is in my signature.

demon8991 · 9 Sep 2022 at 22:14

Would you care to elaborate on that?

Is it because it saves a bit of money or is it because it won’t work?

demon8991 · 11 Sep 2022 at 09:31

So I was thinking of going for a 20m fibre optic HDMI cable and then running a USB over Ethernet 4 port hub.

I am guessing this won’t be in issue?

demon8991 · 10 Jan 2023 at 03:49

So thought I would report back with what I ended up doing.

I continued my research and with the greatest respect decided to go for a cable based solution.

In the end I decided not to use a TV and mounted a 49” 165hz AOC monitor to my rig.

I then ran very long fibre optic display port cable and a USB B to A cable with a signal booster built in back to my PC. This means all my equipment plugs into the monitor USB ports and then the upstream port takes everything back to the PC, I also ran these cables through the wall for extra neatness.

Results are fantastic I get full 5120 x 1440p at 165hz with not artefacts and no slow downs.