Dream racing setup? Money no obstacle

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Oddly enough, the average person here seems to spend about $700-$800 on GT5, some considerably less (even $0) some considerably more as well (over $2000), but pretending there was some sort of competition, where you were to design a perfect gaming rig, what would it be? For me it'd be something like this.

3 x 40 inch 3D Full Backlit LED TVs (I think 40 inches are as large as I'd want before the cars would become bigger than 1:1 scale, could be wrong).
7.1 Sound system,
Thrustmaster Wheel and Shifter,
Wheel Stand,
Racing Seat with full hydraulic setup, linked to the game (if that's even possible, so it could generate all the Gs the game does).
PlayStation 3,
Gran Turismo 5 XL

There would need to be a way to link everything up to, well everything else virtually, so the screens move with you and the seat, maybe even the speakers, have it all integrated so the majority of the wires aren't constantly being pulled.

Has anyone done something at all like this? I would have to be earning a lot of money to do this, I think I'll come close to this, save for the speakers and the superior wheel, and of course the hydraulics.

Anyway, can anything think of any improvements? Some may want to have an actual car mounted on hydralics, but, it would be only one car, so I wouldn't want this approach even money no obstacle.
 
3x 28" 120hz LED monitors with native display port.
A kick ass PC with an ATI 7970 card.
Todd Cannon pedals with clutch.
T500RS.
Todd Cannon H pattern shifter.
DSD trackboss button box.
Sim Xperience motion platform.

That is all.
 
Money no object eh?
F1 team rig with the fastest internet possible and every sim available.
Or I could just drive my real F1 car around a 1000 acre motorsports park in my backyard in the middle of nowhere.
 
Bopop4
Money no object eh?
F1 team rig with the fastest internet possible and every sim available.
Or I could just drive my real F1 car around a 1000 acre motorsports park in my backyard in the middle of nowhere.
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Or you could be an actual F1 driver. Who is also a badass secret agent with an Aston Martin is his off time. [/1up]
 
I run 3 55" LCD backlit HDTV's with 2 GeForce GTX 570's in SLI for iRacing. I have all the necessary goodies. DSD button box, DSD Pro Sequential Shifter, Autometer 11,000 RPM Tachometer, Symproject Rev burner, symproject Shift indicator.

2 Buttkickers, 2 Aura Bass shakers driven with Dayton 150 watt amp. 7.1 Pioneer A/V Receiver. Custom Zalem rig.

Part 1 of the build is Here
 Part 2 should be ready in a week or so.
 
To be honest, as a casual gamer, I'm perfectly fine with what I have - a DFGT with the GTurgismo paddle shifters mounted on a wheel stand. It takes up minimal space and stores upright in a closet when not in use, and it takes me less than a minute to haul it out and connect it to my PS3/living room HT setup. This offers me all the fun and immersion I'm looking for.
 
No monetary limit? Well, I'll gladly take the McLaren MP4-26 then and purchase the Hungaroring as well, just because I can.

Might not buy the race track and put several 60" screens and high end computers in front of the car.
 
Money no object I'd have a SuperGT NSX converted into a sim. But hey ho... Actually since the HSV-10 you might be able to pick one up for cheap, who knows? Then I'd have the thing set up so I can 'play' any sim with every mod and piece of content ever released. The wheel would have to be a DFP for sentimental reasons.
 
Another house with big mancave and my current setup now with D-Box and 3 projectors projecting all the way to the floor for realism ... an oh unlimited supplies of twinkies or chocolate sponge cake

ok seriously.
for rig, I would have mine the way it is with my custom button box and SLI-PRO and on a 4-DOF D-Box .
pedals CST F1 or ECCI pedals,
Wheel ECCI 7000 with hot swap rim and built in SLI-F1(leo's new SLI) ,
frex sim hydraulic Handbrake + my frex Shift+ (becuase i just don't have the tool to built one)
 
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Ah very true... The title just says racing setup, not sim racing setup. Too late change my answer to Jenson Button's car?
 
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Mayaman
The setup I have now, I love it. :)
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That must be cool to be able to say that.:)

You're set up is amazing Mayaman, be i think even you could still wish for more.

Something like the redbull F1 sim perhaps:

 
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HoiHman
That must be cool to be able to say that.:)

You're set up is amazing Mayaman, be i think even you could still wish for more.

Something like the redbull F1 sim perhaps:

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I really like that too, but why I say I love mine is that it adapts to "any" type of racing. With the large sweeping screen I have the virtual pit of an F1, touring, or rally. With my dbox and soon to be four actuator I'll have the motion I want. The VR3 to me has the perfect driving position, and adapts to any type of racing.

The problem with the dedicated racing shells is they really only apply to that type of racing. Mine adapts to any. And since the screen is adjustable I can adjust the curvature and distance for a more immersive experience. :D
 
F1 sim's cost about 5 million dollars, and are run by supercomputers. There is nothing on the level of them as far as realism, so if price were no object I think that's where I'd go.

I mean they are top secret like area 51.
 
Well, I'm going to keep mine semi-realistic. I would want two cockpits, one for open wheel, and one for GT cars.

For GT racing:

-5x 30" 2560x1600 120hz monitors modified to nearly eliminate the bezels (seated about 36" away from the center screen
-Frex Simwheel
-Three Pedal Hydraulic system
-CST H-Shifter and DSD Pro-Sequential Shifter
-10" Touchscreen running TouchBuddy as my button box
-Crossfire 7990 (with iRacing updated to finally support Crossfire/SLI)
-Full tactile (bass shakers) setup

For open wheel, essentially the same, except 5x 24" monitors (sitting much closer to them), this rig, and a 2 pedal hydraulic setup:
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Yeah ok several people are missing the point, buying a car is pointless, or even a racing track.

If it were a competition to 'design' a racing gaming rig to play GT5 and anything else you wanted, not just buy the nurburgring, then the italian and german governments so they can design you any car you want, but money being no option 'for the racing simulator' of your dreams.
 
I tried a demo set-up for iracing that I'd love for GT5. It was fairly simple but it had good speakers that actually kept the sound from being too loud outside of the seat. It had three 20 or so inch monitors with some sort if glare cover. But the best part was the hydraulics in the chair. They made it feel so real. If it had GT graphics it would be complete.
 
superbike81
-Crossfire 7990 (with iRacing updated to finally support Crossfire/SLI)
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I thought it did support crossfire and sli. I run 2 gtx 570s and both of them get used when I run iracing. After I added my second one I got a pretty big boost in FPS. With just one 570, I had trouble maxing out a few of the newer tracks, but now it's no trouble at all, and never drops below 100 fps.

As far as the ultimate rig, I would probably pay someone to design something for me from the ground up. If money is no object, I would probably fund fanatec to make the ultimate sim setup, and just pay for the production and research of it. Then I would hire those guys who did the arm thing in the video the guy linked, and have them make it work for any game. If we can't dream that big though, I would probably just the the CSW when it releases(which I plan to do anyway), and add 3 projectors to my setup instead of my TV. I really wouldn't want to do the motion cockpits unless it was something amazing, and I haven't really seen anything for consumers that looks like it would be that great.
 
Conza
Yeah ok several people are missing the point, buying a car is pointless, or even a racing track.

If it were a competition to 'design' a racing gaming rig to play GT5 and anything else you wanted, not just buy the nurburgring, then the italian and german governments so they can design you any car you want, but money being no option 'for the racing simulator' of your dreams.
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Hahaha!
 
I'd have something similar to the video posted of the Opel astra (was it astra :scared:) interior, only I'd have a interior of maybe a ford GT or a pagani hyruaaaaaaaaa. And it would of course have triple monitors 👍
 
bevo
I thought it did support crossfire and sli. I run 2 gtx 570s and both of them get used when I run iracing. After I added my second one I got a pretty big boost in FPS. With just one 570, I had trouble maxing out a few of the newer tracks, but now it's no trouble at all, and never drops below 100 fps.
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Nvidia seems to be a little better supported than AMD cards at the moment, but neither of them have an official profile for iRacing. Most people with AMD cards actually see a minor increase in FPS by disabling one card. Your GTX570's are both being utilized, but perhaps only to about 50% each.

This is a somewhat debatable subject, some they see an improvement, I saw zero improvement on single screen testing between two 560Ti's and one. But some people (like you) say they do see an improvement. I guess it's just another one of those things about PC gaming. :sick:
 
After I installed a second Asus GTX 570 and ran it in SLI I got close to 500 FPS on a single monitor, now running triple 55" HDTV's I get around 100-140 on tracks like Spa and Suzuka.

The bad news is I'm only getting a 60 Hz refresh ATM, hopefully in a few years HDTV's will gert a true 120 Hz refresh like their smaller computer monitor cousins get.
 

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