Silly(c)One's first 2DOF SCN5 racing sim

Hey mate,

Great bargain indeed with the modded 6950... Mine comes from the UK also (overclockers.co.uk)

For the bass shakers, you definitely need some form of volume AND tone control, else your shakers will sing at high frequencies... The Berhinger seems like a good solution with lots of adjustability, :thbup:
I found this small unit on ebay http://www.legacycaraudio.com/itempage.asp?model=LEQ10A, it is small enough to fit below my wheel and has some form of subwoofer control, I hope it'll come in handy.

I have never driven a motor based sim as I'm ADHD and plain hate not to go for the best on first try... (too much impulsivity )
I don't think it would cost you that much (300€) to build a motor setup. Get some cheap wiper motors from ebay (10-40€ per motor) and build Tronicgr's excellent control boards (should set you back approx. 100 quid for both PCBs and components) and you're good to go... Later on you can add the SCN5 (you should definitely try them someday, but I wouldn't wait months and months to be able to afford them... It's the journey that matters, I'm sure a wiper motor sim can be a very rewarding experience. Then you have something to upgrade to, because I bet you won't stop after your first project... Once bitten by the sim bug... Damn it itches :yes:

Thanks for your kind words too, it's heart warming in this psychopathic world... And I'm sure you'll find another wife when you're ready... In the mean time, enjoy your time for yourself and have a blast simracing, this is going to be a great year !

Cheers,
Silly(c)One.

Hello everyone :hi:

So I ended up getting a simple Lian Li mid tower case without window for the SillySim PC. I guess I'll stay air cooled and keep the watercooling for my actual PC which will finally reboot on Mac OS X (it was originally built to be 100% compatible with osx86, and ran under OS X for a year and a half before I got into sim racing...)
While I was at it, I found a lovely case for storage... Lian Li EX50B : 5 disks RAID hot swap array... I've been dreaming about such a thing for at least 10 to 15 years : lots of cheap storage, fast access times, on its own PSU, secure, not bound to a specific OS or software implementation (the interface is eSata).
The 2TB HDs are the cheapest per GB for the moment, so I took 5 of those for 8TB of total space. That should keep me busy for a while

I'll setup my network in Gigabit Ethernet for fast file sharing so the sim PC only needs it's SSD internally (120GB for Windows 7 + installed games should be enough), and the Mac can easily share the files on the home network as a DLNA server (for the XBOX in the living room )
The motherboard and components arrived today so I'm in for a long friday night :clap:

The connectors for the button box arrived, so I'll be soldering those soon to finally mount that damn button box.

Getting close to my initial vision of the sim of my dreams :highfive:

Cheers,
Silly(c)One.