Building a Protee Golf Simulator Computer

[Bubba22]

Yes. It runs well at 3. I went up from a ATI 7770. Cost me only $160 fo the card, very slightly used.

[Maverick]

Nice, I have the same card but not clocked as high. You running TGC on high detail with object at 3?

[Bubba22]

Just installed a GeForce GTX 670 4G superclocked card. Seems to add a big boost to my performance.

[mayassa]

Dell is having sales, go check them out on Slickdeals. And Black Friday is coming.

[zip]

Closer to a grand Craig.

[Craig118]

Throttle that looks like a nightmare - you would need one, maybe 2 portable power supplies depending on what card you install - Your $$$$ graphics card will be exposed the the elements and your one touch away from an ESD event would make it into a desktop fan - You may toast your laptop.......Would be a wiring birdsnest -- Even then I still doubt you could run TGC at satisfactory frame rates.

Put yourself together a nice low budget AMD gaming rig, you can probably do it for around 600-700 bucks

[Throttle]

I currently have an HP Elitebook 8570w laptop that has a PCI express slot. The graphics with TGC are choppy. Rather than do a new desktop what about doing this???

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/EXP-G...480989524.html

[mayassa]

I have an empty SSD drive thats been sitting around waiting for a purpose, I'll re-install onto it tonight.

[Maverick]

Fixed attachments

[Maverick]

That is a good laptop, but for the future, I would go the PC route. Fast CPU with a GTX770 or 780.

[bpep]

Hey everyone, So, I am getting my sim room ready for this coming winter and my next major purchase is a computer. I really want a laptop to be able to handle all settings maxed out and be ready for the future software hopefully coming soon. This is one I'm currently looking at.
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=321350158556&alt=web

Let me know if this will be powerful enough or is there something better for our simulation needs. Thanks everyone!

[Maverick]

Yes, that's true. My specs included an SSD drive. But the most important thing overall is the video card.

[mjbgolf]

Not sure if anyone explained this or not, but after speaking with our IT guy at work he explained to me that the SSD hard drive is the single most important feature to get the game to load faster. Luckily I had him look over my specs before I ordered it.

[Libbing]

I have one. Don't use it a lot. Just as easy / easier to use the mouse.

[chefrank]

Does anyone use a touchscreen monitor in their hardware setup? Any pros or cons?