PC PC building & spec check

Anyone able to help me with a rough baseline price for a 'Decent' setup.... i know very little about PC's as it stands but how much would i roughly be looking at for a PC to run iRacing on at least 60fps and pretty decent graphics detail? Looking to move over to PC sims in the next 3ish years, so got plenty of time to save up the poor piggy bank!

Biggest priced items will be:
Graphics card - $1,000 for latest cards right now, $300 for a nice lower grade card.
CPU - i7's are expensive, i5's can get you there for $270.
Monitor - if you don't need a new one then you save heaps depending how high end u want.
Cooling - good fans will do, next up is radiator cooled ( like ur car but smaller ), liquid cooled.

The rest are smaller amounts but still add up, $70 for 8gb DDR4 ram, $100 motherboard, $70 for 1tb hard drive. Like said above, check out sites, another one is msy.com.au and see their already built options and parts list.

Easiest option is to get a Dell, buy the model you need or just add a good graphics card

I would've thought the biggest problem with that is the price of iRacing content

I'm revisiting this idea. Anyone got any new info / systems to have a look at for a nice PC build that is around $1,200 - $1,500 without the need for a monitor. Plans are to hook the HDMI cable up to the nearby (within two metres) TV.
Cheers

Hey boys,
I'm looking at building a new PC (budget to mid) and was seeing if anyone has some good websites or companies they've used or heard of for either complete systems or components for a project build.
So far I know of pccasegear.com and just had a look at graysonline.
It's replacing a 2010 Dell PC so even things like a new i3 or Nvidia GTX 960 would be a massive improvement.
My current PC runs iracing but I'm looking to boost up my experience a bit.
Cheers

Whats your budget? I could come up with a build for you (PM me if you want)

For VIC I know of these ones as well as PCCG:

www.cplonline.com.au
www.centrecom.com.au
www.msy.com.au
www.scorptec.com.au
www.shopbot.com.au (finds cheapest price when you search for a model number)

You can sometimes find second hand PCs/components from other racers who try to keep up with the latest and greatest. A high end system from 2012 may be just as good if not better than a lower-end one from 2015.

Intel i5 6600K With CoolerMaster hyper 212 evo cooler
MSI GTX 1070 Gaming x Graphics card
kingston 16gb DDR3 1866mhz
750w 80+ silver thermaltake PSU
ASUS B150 D3 Mobo
1TB Hard Drive
120GB SSD
1 Benq bl2420pt 1440p monitor
1 AOC 1080p monitor (Dont know the model)
There is my rig, its my little beast <3

Hey guys, just doing some research now trying to figure out my next 12 months of saving up and trying to get a PC, which of these would be most beneficial for the higher end racing sims out there? (iR, AC, RF2 are my priorities)
https://www.pccasegear.com/category/1411/systems/sort/4
Unsure of what my budget is right now, however i'll probably be aiming between the 2-3k mark. I'm pretty new to the PC world so any help is appreciated

AC is likely to be the most demanding of those games - a 1070 build ~2500) would probably run AC on a single display on max at a very high framerate - if you wanted triple screens, 4k resolution or VR to run well id probably go a 1080 build (2800-3k)if your budget allows it

Yep any 2k gaming system should be able to smash all the PC racing sims out at 1080p Ultra quality with loads of FPS. If you're going all out then I'd make sure the system features an nVidia 1080 Ti card (not yet released). Any high-end Intel i5 or i7 CPU from recent years - they haven't improved all that much. About 16GB DDR4 RAM. Decent power supply. High capacity SSD for multiple games. The rest is just sundry usually. Put any extra savings towards a good screen, steering wheel upgrade, VR display, headphones, whatever you like.

Probably worth looking to see what cases they use and how much they're worth. You may or may not prefer a more basic case with the money going towards a better graphics card, for example.
i.e. if it's going in a bedroom and being used at night, LED's and windows do look cool but can also be annoying if you're downloading DiRT Rally via Steam overnight. I nearly fell over when I saw how big that game was the other month. (~35GB)

Awesome! Thanks guys, you pretty much confirmed where i need to be looking at and how much im going to need!!

I don't have anything to back this up but - I think that's way too much overkill for racing sims.
3K really? 1080 really? Checkout some youtube videos of people running the games and posting their pc specs.

Yeah im sure it could be done for much cheaper and still be enjoyable Spidey, yet in my original question i did say my budget would be decently big and im not a fan of the constantly upgrading idea, so a great PC on the higher end side of things is my route im after
By all means though, ive heard of alright iRacing setups for 1.5k

My gaming PC still dates back to September 2012 (besides the upgraded graphics card) and is still going pretty strong. I can play pCARS at Ultra 1080p with D2XX or D4XX anti-aliasing which is probably the most graphics intensive racing sim right now. That was around a 3.5k build at the time iirc. Even with the older 680 GTX graphics card it was faster than both new consoles when they launched.

Build details are here http://forum.turboduck.net/threads/29003-ryzza5s-pc