Hi all, sorry but yet another PC build recommendation thread. My DCS World installation currently shares the same PC as my racing sim games. As I now have two separate rigs it means that if I want to swap between the two, I have to physically move the PC, and as the flight sim rig has six monitors connected to it, plus a load of USB connected units, every time I do I then have to spend the best part of a morning re-doing all the extended desktop display settings, monitorsetup.lua file and redoing the comm port batch file for DCS Bios. A right pain
Going the other way is not as intensive, but the thought of having to do all that work to return it stops me doing it as often as I would like.
So the Racing rig needs a standalone PC; my DCS World installation thankfully is not a Steam based one so that simplifies it, but I want to get a reasonable PC just for Racing.
My titles are AC, ACC, Dirt 2.0, rFactor2, AMS and AMS2. I will be getting AC2 when it comes out. At the moment I have no intention of getting any of the other titles, being pretty happy with what I have.
I use a G2 VR headset, and a V3 seat mover. That's about it from the point of view of requirements. I rarely race on-line, being happy enough to do local races with ten or so AI opponents, and from the point of view of trackside animations, I don't care about them, I am just worried about smooth gameplay and visuals, with the quality of the visuals being limited to the fidelity of the track and in car realism. The flag waving fans can stay at home.
So understanding that my long suffering wife is not willing to let me spend yet another big dollop of cash for this, I have limited myself to about $1500 for the PC, and am looking at the following
CPU i7 11700
Asus TUF H570-Pro Mobo
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 (2x16Gb)
Gigabyte RTX4070 Windforce
Corsair RM750R PSU
Western Digital WD_Black 2Tb SN770
I also will need a windows installation, and for the first time am considering the Win 11 home OS. I am also assuming that installing the games on the same drive as the OS is the best way to go
I am not into overclocking, water-cooling, tuning, LED flashy lights or any other peripheral items; the PC will be installed on a bespoke shelf attached to the rig where it will be amply cooled but more to the point out of sight and protected and with all the cables being secured and managed, so it is a PC I want to install and forget. Reliable, boring, low maintenance
So I believe that the spec above (or similar equivalents) should be good enough to do this, but let me know if there is a mismatch in the components or any weak points.
One last thing to point out, which is the real reason for asking in advance - I am in Qatar, all these parts will have to be shipped in from the US via a friend, and there will be no way to return, so I need to be sure I'm not getting something that will cause issues. For instance I saw that there were multiple cases of people buying Ryzen CPU's only to find the box was empty, for me that would be a total show stopper, which is why I have not entertained a Ryzen based PC. I can't take that risk.
Thanks in advance for the help
Les
Going the other way is not as intensive, but the thought of having to do all that work to return it stops me doing it as often as I would like.
So the Racing rig needs a standalone PC; my DCS World installation thankfully is not a Steam based one so that simplifies it, but I want to get a reasonable PC just for Racing.
My titles are AC, ACC, Dirt 2.0, rFactor2, AMS and AMS2. I will be getting AC2 when it comes out. At the moment I have no intention of getting any of the other titles, being pretty happy with what I have.
I use a G2 VR headset, and a V3 seat mover. That's about it from the point of view of requirements. I rarely race on-line, being happy enough to do local races with ten or so AI opponents, and from the point of view of trackside animations, I don't care about them, I am just worried about smooth gameplay and visuals, with the quality of the visuals being limited to the fidelity of the track and in car realism. The flag waving fans can stay at home.
So understanding that my long suffering wife is not willing to let me spend yet another big dollop of cash for this, I have limited myself to about $1500 for the PC, and am looking at the following
CPU i7 11700
Asus TUF H570-Pro Mobo
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 (2x16Gb)
Gigabyte RTX4070 Windforce
Corsair RM750R PSU
Western Digital WD_Black 2Tb SN770
I also will need a windows installation, and for the first time am considering the Win 11 home OS. I am also assuming that installing the games on the same drive as the OS is the best way to go
I am not into overclocking, water-cooling, tuning, LED flashy lights or any other peripheral items; the PC will be installed on a bespoke shelf attached to the rig where it will be amply cooled but more to the point out of sight and protected and with all the cables being secured and managed, so it is a PC I want to install and forget. Reliable, boring, low maintenance
So I believe that the spec above (or similar equivalents) should be good enough to do this, but let me know if there is a mismatch in the components or any weak points.
One last thing to point out, which is the real reason for asking in advance - I am in Qatar, all these parts will have to be shipped in from the US via a friend, and there will be no way to return, so I need to be sure I'm not getting something that will cause issues. For instance I saw that there were multiple cases of people buying Ryzen CPU's only to find the box was empty, for me that would be a total show stopper, which is why I have not entertained a Ryzen based PC. I can't take that risk.
Thanks in advance for the help
Les
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