Wow, here is a "best" buy for the new year. If anyone is thinking of a single upgrade to enhance their Sim experience, this one is well worth the $219.99 for the 8800GT - 512mb "Definitely one of my best upgrades"
LINKY >Micro Center
One of the best drivers and clearly a exciting era of F1 racing
Supercars require a delicate balance blending brute force, a refined suspension and eye-popping design. For the moment, Saleen isn't revealing all the details, but when it comes to power, we're told this bird boasts a 650-horsepower version of Saleen's own 5.0-liter V-8. The supercharged powerplant will launch the S5S Raptor from 0- 60 in well under 4 seconds, we're told.
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If its as good as it sounds it fits right in the next tier up from Logitech and right below the ECCI type of products..
Porsche style Sim Wheel
Here's one you gotta love if you are into dynamic guitar playing
Guitar dual
Here is something I believe we all think about, the question of "what next", what if you have some additional money to spend on an upgrade to enhance your SIM racing experience, what would you spend it on first?
Not on these thats for sure Now I have seen everything!!!
Ok, good question (yeah)?
Now, how much money do we have to spend, lets put a dollar amount of oh...$250.00 to $350.00, think of how you improved your driving experience spending somewhere close to that amount. What would you be inclined to spend it on first?
For now, to start this and to keep the answers in a more focused perspective lets leave out the higher platform systems, meaning the folks who already reac [... more]
For those of you who use the Logitech profiler this is just out, proceed at your own risk.
Logitech Wingman 5.01
I did the upgrade the other day and had no problems whatsoever, did it to 2 installed versions. Now I go to practice and the only thing that happens is the rFactor logo appears and then it loops right out to my desktop both versions????
Any help guys I tried new activation again, it said you are now ready, but I think something else is going on here. My second version is a pure version with only one MOd on it and has been working flawlessly also.
Interesting reading...
Fans fill the bleachers. TV coverage seems to run virtually non-stop on one network or another. Sponsors can't ante up enough cash. It might seem, at first blush, that motorsports are more popular and powerful than ever.
If so, then, why are some of the biggest names in racing, including the head of Toyota's well-funded Formula One team, as well as the legendary racer, Parnelli Jones, fretting that racing may be wearing out its welcome, facing the prospect of becoming not only "boring," but out of touch with changing times?
Those were the surprisingly unsettling concerns raised during a conference held at the Laguna Seca Raceway, in Salinas, Calif. , prior to the annual Monterey Historics. That event gathers some of the sport's most famous drivers - along with the cars they may have raced in - for three days of gentleman's rules racing.
The mot [... more]
