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[Jo77]

Hi Guys,

starting building rigs with wood for the frame and car seat whil eplaying gt4. NOw, many years later, even though it is not finished, I am starting to be pretty satisfied with my rig..

Few items:
Triple Screens Asus Rog PG278Q
Titan X GPU
Fanatec V2 base
FanatecV3 pedals

Buttons boxes, tablet for JRT

I just finished a room for my office and my rig.

So here it is

 

[Skid_Marc_]

Jo, that looks amazing!! Nice job, and I love the colors!

 

[Jerad]

Some updates to my PC, new 240hz monitor for competitive shooters, standing desk frame so I am not sitting all day and a new mic because old one died.

Because stuff has been patched in here and there I really need to pull everything apart and have some semblance of cable management.

 

[Brainling]

My back is killing me, but I got it all setup last night.

You can see my flight stick and throttle off to the left. I only keep those mounted when I'm flying. I ended up not using the monitor stand that comes with the Obutto because I wanted the space on my desk for storage and for my PC to sit on. The Obutto fits up under their nicely.

 

[Brainling]

I changed my mind, I decided to use the monitor stand. I wanted to be able to move the display closer to me. Attaching my expensive monitor to it and letting it free hang was a definite daddy dropping babby off for the first day of school moment.

 

[Jes_971]

Hi Guys,

starting building rigs with wood for the frame and car seat whil eplaying gt4. NOw, many years later, even though it is not finished, I am starting to be pretty satisfied with my rig..

Few items:
Triple Screens Asus Rog PG278Q
Titan X GPU
Fanatec V2 base
FanatecV3 pedals

Buttons boxes, tablet for JRT

I just finished a room for my office and my rig.

So here it is

Very nice rig and setup! Picture number two, Rush!!!!!

 

[Deb]

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[Jes_971]

Details to follow

 

[Deb]

Very cool!!! I like how you modified the Playseat. I have one of those at the lakehouse and it is really not stable enough by itself, particularly with the HE pedals attached. It is okay, but I have wondered how I could make it more stable.

 

[Jes_971]

Very cool!!! I like how you modified the Playseat. I have one of those at the lakehouse and it is really not stable enough by itself, particularly with the HE pedals attached. It is okay, but I have wondered how I could make it more stable.

Its just a 2x4 and plywood box. The plates that the seat sit on have holes in the bottoms and I screwed it in there. As I'm sure your familiar with how the rig doesn't sit flush/flat on a flat surface. I added washers underneath the front of the plate as the plate angled up from back to front. Washers are needed on all screws as the holes in the plates are slightly to big.


Then I put two little wood wedges under the ends of the legs of the wheel post. After doing this, almost all of my side-to-side play stopped.


I also added some washers and longer allen bolts to only the front of where the seat bolts into the plate. I was trying to achieve some more backwards lean on the seat. Which did work. It didn't need much. I also added a spacer block (a piece of 2x4 wrapped in cardboard and tape) to go under the front of the seat cushion with a piece of "custom cut" foam to help with transition. This lifts the front of the cushion up providing better under thigh support.

 

[Deb]

Question for you tech guys. You know I have been talking about upgrading my rig at the Lakehouse and did a lot of research today. I am seriously considering a PC with a Nvidia 1070 graphics card. It seems to have performance specs very similar to the 980 Ti, which I have on my home PC and it is great! Because of space limitations, I am considering a 35 inch curved monitor with 3440 res and 100 hz. Do you have any thoughts on if this would be a good setup? iRacing is about the only vid game I play.

 

[Skid_Marc_]

Question for you tech guys. You know I have been talking about upgrading my rig at the Lakehouse and did a lot of research today. I am seriously considering a PC with a Nvidia 1070 graphics card. It seems to have performance specs very similar to the 980 Ti, which I have on my home PC and it is great! Because of space limitations, I am considering a 35 inch curved monitor with 3440 res and 100 hz. Do you have any thoughts on if this would be a good setup? iRacing is about the only vid game I play.

A GTX 1070 can push 7680 x 4320 @ 60hz, or (in theory) half of that at 120hz, 3840 x 2160 if I mathed ok? Since Im guessing the monitor you are looking at is 3440 x 1440, the 1070 should be able to run the monitor at above 120hz... as long as it is paired with enough CPU horsepower!

Hope this helps!

 

[Noodleguitar]

A GTX 1070 can push 7680 x 4320 @ 60hz, or (in theory) half of that at 120hz, 3840 x 2160 if I mathed ok? Since Im guessing the monitor you are looking at is 3440 x 1440, the 1070 should be able to run the monitor at above 120hz... as long as it is paired with enough CPU horsepower!

If you're looking at half the total pixels then that would be 5430 x 3055 for a half of 7680 x 4320. Not sure if it works that way but if every pixel is independent I can image it would.

 

[Deb]

Thanks guys, I think I am going to go with that. Bedo said Naid uses the 1070 in a number of his rigs and he runs the curved monitors, so thinking that might be the best option for the price. Seems to be a good value for the performance. At some point, I probably need to figure out how to build a PC, but I am not there yet.

 

[John Navara]

Here are the shots of my new rig. Using the one 27" Dell for iRacing. Planning to update the other 24" monitors when my sim fund allows it. Sorry not sure how to make them thumbnails.

John

 

[Deb]

Very cool!!!!

 

[ShadniX]

Following up on the short rig/table discussion in Twitch chat the other day, here is my DIY table setup. It won't win any beauty prices, but it works for me and I like my desk space:

Wheel to the side, because I do my racing in VR and don't need screens in front. Looking at it right now, I should've removed the dust from the tower.

 

[Noodleguitar]

Nice setup Shadni, unlimited coffee only an arm's reach away! I was thinking way too long about how you would move your screens around for racing before I read the text beneath it .

 

[Kinger]

Here are the shots of my new rig. Using the one 27" Dell for iRacing. Planning to update the other 24" monitors when my sim fund allows it. Sorry not sure how to make them thumbnails.

John

Really like your setup John especially with the flight gear incorporated as well.

 

[Ryan Walker]

A couple of pictures of what I use. Nothing fancy just a 17" monitor for stuff like JRT or Kutu fuel app and a 24" monitor and I use a Playseat Challenge which I decided to invest in as I was getting sick of my office chair moving about when racing.