Building a Protee Golf Simulator Computer

[Maverick]

Like with HDTV, it will come down. I painfully remember when HDTV's were $6k.....lol

[mthunt]

Going with my recommended above, you can run TGC in high detail with object at 3 or more. Going with the minimum. You'll be playing at low detail or not playing at all.

Thanks Z. I'll look at building a PC when I get back from my golf trip in a week.

[Sleeping_King]

Looks good.

Will this run TGC on high detail? If so I might be copying this.

[Maverick]

Will this run TGC on high detail? If so I might be copying this.

That setup will run TGC on high detail with Object at 2-3. I don't see any difference when moving object up to 4. If you have extra cash, get the 8350.

[mthunt]

That setup will run TGC on high detail with Object at 2-3. I don't see any difference when moving object up to 4. If you have extra cash, get the 8350.

Z, would this work for TGC? It's a good deal at Costco up here.

http://www.costco.com/.product.10013...28_BlackFriday

[Maverick]

The computer itself is great but the GTX 745 video card that it comes with is garbage. You would have to price in a GTX 670, 760 and above on top of that deal.

[Craig118]

Z, would this work for TGC? It's a good deal at Costco up here.

http://www.costco.com/.product.10013...28_BlackFriday

Z is right about the card. Also the box store computers typically cheap out and come with 350Watt-400 Watt power supply. You need at least 600 watt to run a good enough video card. So your looking at another 300 bucks in add ons between a decent card and power supply. You can build your own PC for about the $700 price they want including a latest generation Video card. Also you can get a bigger tower case, latest Gen video cards are 10-12 inches long and a tight fit in that XPS case. I know because I upgraded my own 4 year old XPS for my simulator this year.

[mthunt]

Thanks for the advice gents.

[Maverick]

For those in the Chicago west suburbs, Microcenter has a great deal on an i5 4690k boxed($180) or i7 4790k boxed($250). There's also an Asus Z97-AR SLI motherboard for $80 after $20 rebate if you buy them together. I just picked up the i7 and motherboard. Good for 2 more days.

[Maverick]

Here's my new build:

i7 4790k @ 4.0ghz = $250
Asus Z97-AR = $80
8 GB GSkills DDR3 2133 = $55
PNY 120GB SSD Sata III = $50
Sata DVD optical drive = $20
Maxtor 500GB HD = $40
Corsair GC800w PS = $80
ATX full tower case = $50
Galaxy GTX 670 2GB = $120 (bought used a year ago for $200)
MSI GTX 670 2GB = $120 (bought used 2 weeks ago)
Windows 8.1 = $120

Total = $985

Most of these parts I already had but figured I would list what the whole thing would cost if built from scratch. Btw, I got SLI to work after a little trick I found on Steam forum. I'm now running TGC on high with object at 5 at 1920X1080p. Getting between 40-50 fps on Pinehurst #2. I don't see any stutter yet. CPU and graphics cards are running at stock speeds. The i7 is very fast. Looks like the two GTX 670's are still a bottleneck.

[Throttle]

Finally got my new build together and finished. Went with an AMD 8350 and an R9285 card. I am getting 55 FPS on average running TGC on high default settings @ 1280x800 (no 1080p projector just yet). Big improvement over the I7 laptop!

[theLONO]

How are you guys knowing the FPS? Are you using a utility?

[Throttle]

Here is what I and I assume most users are using.

http://www.fraps.com/download.php

[theLONO]

Thanks Throttle

[p3eps]

I'm trying to build a budget gaming system (if there is such a thing?!) for my golf sim.
I've bought some parts in Black Friday sales, and some bits of eBay. Here's what I've got so far...

Aerocool Dead Silence Case
Asus H81M-Plus motherboard
Intel i5 3.2ghz Haswell Quad Core processor
Gigabyte Windforce Nvidia GTX760 OC 4gb
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 2133 8gb RAM
Corsair CX600M Power Supply
2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD
Windows 8.1 OEM

I've also ordered an old Hauppage WinTV 1200 card so that I can watch TV through my projector if I want. Hopefully the last of it will arrive on Monday, and I can get it all built and tested.