Move from console to PC

tom1979 · Post by **tom1979** » Mon Mar 08, 2021 2:58 pm

Hi, I am looking to move from console to PC. Just looking for some reassurance that the specs of the PC I am looking at is good:

Intel i7 6700
16GB DDR4 RAM
Zotac Geforce GTX 1060 6GB
ASUS H110M-R Motherboard
Kingston 480GB SSD
Windows 10 Pro

No mention of a sound card, but would FS19 make use of a fancy sound card?

I am planning to connect it to my TV and use a Logitech F710 Wireless Gamepad. I don't really want to use a keyboard and definitely don't want a steering wheel setup. A friend of mine may also be selling a gaming laptop of similar spec, but waiting on details of that. The whole setup will only be used for FS19.

DirectCedar · Post by **DirectCedar** » Mon Mar 08, 2021 4:10 pm

tom1979 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 2:58 pm Hi, I am looking to move from console to PC. Just looking for some reassurance that the specs of the PC I am looking at is good:

Intel i7 6700
16GB DDR4 RAM
Zotac Geforce GTX 1060 6GB
ASUS H110M-R Motherboard
Kingston 480GB SSD
Windows 10 Pro

No mention of a sound card, but would FS19 make use of a fancy sound card?

I am planning to connect it to my TV and use a Logitech F710 Wireless Gamepad. I don't really want to use a keyboard and definitely don't want a steering wheel setup. A friend of mine may also be selling a gaming laptop of similar spec, but waiting on details of that. The whole setup will only be used for FS19.

In my experience that setup will be more than adequate. I run a very similar PC except I only have half the RAM and half the video RAM installed that you are proposing, and mine runs smoothly at the highest video settings I can dial the game up to, even on 4x maps with a hundred mods. The only stumbling block I foresee could be if you’re trying to drive a huge TV at the highest resolution you can output. Then you may need to scale down your output.

tom1979 · Post by **tom1979** » Mon Mar 08, 2021 4:19 pm

Sounds like I should be good then, thank you. We don't have a massive TV!

chedly_farms · Post by **chedly_farms** » Mon Mar 08, 2021 4:35 pm

tom1979 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 2:58 pm Hi, I am looking to move from console to PC. Just looking for some reassurance that the specs of the PC I am looking at is good:

Intel i7 6700
16GB DDR4 RAM
Zotac Geforce GTX 1060 6GB
ASUS H110M-R Motherboard
Kingston 480GB SSD
Windows 10 Pro

No mention of a sound card, but would FS19 make use of a fancy sound card?

I am planning to connect it to my TV and use a Logitech F710 Wireless Gamepad. I don't really want to use a keyboard and definitely don't want a steering wheel setup. A friend of mine may also be selling a gaming laptop of similar spec, but waiting on details of that. The whole setup will only be used for FS19.

Just out of curiosity, what is a ballpark figure if what a system like this costs? I am curious myself to go to the PC world. If you don't mind me asking.

ajFarmer · Post by **ajFarmer** » Mon Mar 08, 2021 4:52 pm

You do not need a fancy sound card, Your set up looks good if that's all your using it for.

PrincessJessi84 · Post by **PrincessJessi84** » Mon Mar 08, 2021 4:58 pm

modern computers have fantastic sound cards.. my dell supports 7.1 channel surround and has amazing quality sound out of the built in chipset

PrincessJessi84 · Post by **PrincessJessi84** » Mon Mar 08, 2021 4:59 pm

I personally dont recommend going to pc... right now! the price of the video cards is jacking everything up real bad.. the same price I paid for my dell will currently get u a potato

tom1979 · Post by **tom1979** » Mon Mar 08, 2021 5:07 pm

PrincessJessi84 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 4:59 pm I personally dont recommend going to pc... right now! the price of the video cards is jacking everything up real bad.. the same price I paid for my dell will currently get u a potato

I'm looking at about £500 for that setup, which I don't think is bad at all !

PrincessJessi84 · Post by **PrincessJessi84** » Mon Mar 08, 2021 5:21 pm

thats honestly not terrible... its just these silly cards... I have been reading that it has to do with bitcoin mining.. I guess they r jacking up the demand real bad... idk much about bitcoin mining so I have no idea lol... I just know that to get my pc with its original specs is way more than what I paid for either of them, the 1700 or the 2700 model

tom1979 · Post by **tom1979** » Mon Mar 08, 2021 5:25 pm

PrincessJessi84 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 5:21 pm thats honestly not terrible... its just these silly cards... I have been reading that it has to do with bitcoin mining.. I guess they r jacking up the demand real bad... idk much about bitcoin mining so I have no idea lol... I just know that to get my pc with its original specs is way more than what I paid for either of them, the 1700 or the 2700 model

That's a good idea, when it's not running FS19 i could be mining for Bitcoins!!!! A mate ran a racing simulator business and he had all the sims mining at night!

PrincessJessi84 · Post by **PrincessJessi84** » Mon Mar 08, 2021 5:27 pm

yea.. I guess its become such a big deal that nvidea has tooled a few of their lines to specifically not work well with mining so people will stop buying all of them up and jacking up the market

this_is_gav · Post by **this_is_gav** » Mon Mar 08, 2021 5:38 pm

It's a combination of factors. Mining, COVID-19 creating bottlenecks in distribution and the demand at chip foundries clogging up the ability to make CPUs and GPU chips - the latter two are also reasons why they can't satisfy demands for new consoles.

tom1979 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 5:25 pm That's a good idea, when it's not running FS19 i could be mining for Bitcoins!!!! A mate ran a racing simulator business and he had all the sims mining at night!

You're not going to get anything mining on a couple of PCs now. You need mining farms with rooms full of computers to have a decent chance of making good money.

The setup you mentioned will run the game well at 1080p and 1440p, but I suspect you'd struggle to get decent performance at 4K (if your TV is a 4K one).

DirectCedar · Post by **DirectCedar** » Mon Mar 08, 2021 5:57 pm

The setup you mentioned will run the game well at 1080p and 1440p, but I suspect you'd struggle to get decent performance at 4K (if your TV is a 4K one).
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I would echo what gav is saying here. I did not mention that I run my setup at 1080p and occasionally 1440. I think that card/PC combination would have more than a handful running at 4k. However the game looks beautiful (to me) even at 1080 as long as you're not on a monstrous screen.

DEERE317 · Post by **DEERE317** » Mon Mar 08, 2021 6:42 pm

For sound cards motherboards and dGPU’s usually have them.

tom1979 · Post by **tom1979** » Tue Mar 09, 2021 11:48 am

this_is_gav wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 5:38 pm
You're not going to get anything mining on a couple of PCs now. You need mining farms with rooms full of computers to have a decent chance of making good money.

The setup you mentioned will run the game well at 1080p and 1440p, but I suspect you'd struggle to get decent performance at 4K (if your TV is a 4K one).

It was a couple of years ago, he managed to get 0.25 bitcoins in 6 months!

I don't think our TV is 4K, is a Sony Bravia KDL32W706BSU which I think is only 1080p but at 32" I think it will ok on the lesser resolutions. Although the company selling it said "it will run Forza Horizon 4 very smoothly at 4K 30Hz with "Ultra Dynamic" quality", whatever that means!

I am quite looking forward to losing the constraints of console!

For some reason I could not reply last night as apparently my IP has been blocked! Strange.

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