Building a PC for Sim Racing in 2025

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Jason (00:20):
The Hello and welcome to the Chicane Podcast, where we
discuss all things in the simracing world.
I'm your host, jason Rivera,and I'm joined here by Mr Eric

(00:41):
Kelly and Jeff Smart.
Welcome back, jeff.
How's everybody doing?

Jeff (00:46):
Doing good man Doing good.
I missed you guys, missed youguys.
I missed the banger of anepisode.
So apologize to you, gentlemen,and I am ready to get back on
the saddle or get back in thecar here.
All good man.

Jason (01:00):
We had a good chat with Daniel.

Jeff (01:03):
Dude.
His stuff's awesome, so we.

Jason (01:05):
Yeah, kills it.
I mean I'm telling you theChicane podcast friends list is
growing, which is good.
I mean I want everybody to staytuned because you know we might
do something for the summertimeor we might do something for
the end of the year, and I justwant a room packed full of sim
racers and creators anddifferent views on things.

(01:26):
And yeah, I mean it was fun.
And, jeff, you know things comeup.
It's all good.
We pulled through.
As you can see, I'm not feelingtoo well and today was a long
day.
I'm not feeling too well andtoday was a long day.
And then I got into the race,committed to the iRacing League

(01:50):
and the Porsche and I'mcompletely I'm not feeling too
good, but I'm going to do mypart and do my best here on the
show.
Tanks on empty one fumes,basically.
So announcements.

Erick (02:02):
I appreciate the dedication man.

Jason (02:09):
I appreciate you guys for being here and supporting me,
so if I look a little weird,it's going around, so take care
of yourselves out there.
I know Eric came down on that.
Last week he missed his race.

Erick (02:18):
Rob Markman Jr.
Yeah, I'm fresh off of it.

Jason (02:20):
I know how you feel, man, rob Markman Jr, man yeah, so
even if we're across the water,you know, say, breathing the
same air, um, I guess somecleaner than others.
Yeah, um, but how was your week?
How was your week?
Both of you, eric, jeff?
What's going on?

Erick (02:38):
uh, I'll, I'll go quickly .
My week was great, um, you know, did you get to do a race
earlier this week and it was abrutal race, um, not out of
competition, but just learningcurve for myself.
You know, um still got a lot tolearn as far as you know
iRacing and some of the therules and kind of just what to

(02:58):
do when things aren't goingright.
But I'm still excited to learnum, and I appreciate the
feedback.
And you know I was telling Vladyou know, in the racing league
and I think his name is Thomas,the one of the stewards for the
league I would, if this was justme racing by myself, I would
just leave that situation notknowing what to do next time,

(03:21):
not knowing the best pathforward, and you know, just
getting that feedback ifsomething were to happen.
I time, not knowing the bestpath forward and you know, just
getting that feedback Ifsomething were to happen, I kind
of know what the best, you knowthe best action to take is Like
if your wheel disconnectsmid-race, or you know you're in
a race and you don't feelcomfortable with the track, or
you know you have some damage,or you know just all those race
craft kind of things that justhelp you not ruin somebody

(03:43):
else's race, that you don'treally get feedback on when
you're on GT seven or you'reracing AI or something like that
.
So, um, I appreciate those guysin the league and the effort
they put into try to make sureeverybody's on the same page.

Jason (03:58):
Yeah, they, they offered you um training, you know, and
one-on-one sessions.
And I'll say this for the wheeldisconnecting.
Any wheel that has LEDs on itdoesn't have to have a screen.
You want to put that on apowered USB.
It's, you know.
The computer just can't take itafter a while.

(04:21):
It can't handle that constantcurrent of power draw depending
on your brightness level.
But you don't want to worryabout that.
You want to put it on power andgive it more power than what
it's drawing and it'll regulateitself.
But if it doesn't have enoughpower, then those issues happen,

(04:44):
they occur.

Erick (04:46):
And so one more time for everybody and for me who's about
to order this?
Like damn near real time.
What is the USB hub you suggest?
The Sebrant?

Jason (04:59):
The Sebrant.

Erick (05:00):
That one.

Jason (05:01):
Yeah, but for you I would do the 4.
The 4 should be fine becauseyou don't have that many devices
yet and it's cool because thefour always has.
It's compact and it has a placethat you can put near your rig,
your rig.

(05:26):
So if you want to put yourcomputer to sleep instead of
having to unplug the neo everytime, you just press a button
and it cuts the power so that'sanother plus.

Erick (05:33):
So therefore, port has the the power button too yes,
and I'll include that in thelink.

Jason (05:38):
Whoever wants to buy one they're not that bad they're
like 20, yeah, yeah, no, zerokickbacks.
Straight Amazon link yeah, butyeah, so I get it, and it's
something you kind of had to gothrough to see why it's so
important to have that.

Erick (05:56):
Yeah, that's my first time having that happen and also
I feel like just from mydiscussions before that'll
probably address some of theother issues I must have with
iRacing discussions beforethat'll probably address some of
the other issues I must havewith uh, iRacing, because some
of it might have beenconnectivity like not network
but some of the usbs kind oflike falling off and

(06:18):
reconnecting or something likethat.

Jason (06:19):
Well, you got to look at a pc as a more demanding
platform than a console, becausea console is designed to do one
thing.
Your pc is running, trading,paint, sim, hub, um, a lot of
background stuff going on, soyou want to keep it, you want to
give it more power, so that wayit doesn't have to worry.
That's one less thing to worryabout, that's all yeah, that

(06:41):
makes sense.

Jeff (06:42):
I see, and I see a nice little attachment to the rig
there behind you.
I haven't seen it, man.
I've been out, mia, for alittle bit.

Erick (06:52):
Looks good, bud, oh yeah, man, that's courtesy of uh jeff
verstappen over here looks good.
I hope you like it about ohyeah, I got the buttons mapped
on it.
Um, I got a lovely uh dashboardrunning on it.
Um, it's, it's been great manI'm, I'm getting more immersion

(07:12):
freedom some buds on my wheel.
Um it, it's been cool man.
Yeah, I'm loving it, Excellent.

Jason (07:20):
All right, jeff.
What about you, man?
It's been a while.

Jeff (07:23):
Yeah, dude.

Jason (07:25):
You kind of been MIA.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I've been speculating.
I saw something in the noteshere.
I can't wait.

Jeff (07:35):
I've been driving everything.
If there's a race for it, I'vebeen driving it.
I've been doing like trophytrucks, rally, cross, nascar
trucks, oval, indy, dude.
If there was a race I didn'tget credit for like any of them

(07:56):
because they're all likeunranked races and I got to
eventually just kind of likepick a couple and work through
them, you know, get out ofrookies in that class so you can
like have real races, causeit's they're a mess and I'm part
of the mess, cause, especiallylike trophy trucks, like you
kind of need an e-brake, Iimagine Right, and I don't.
The stupidest thing of me waswhen I sold my previous gear, I

(08:17):
included the shifter and thee-brake and I should have,
should have kept it and justkept it off the rig.

Jason (08:23):
Wait a minute.

Erick (08:24):
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.

Jason (08:25):
Here we go.
You had a Fanatec chip.

Jeff (08:27):
I did.

Jason (08:28):
Yeah, oh, yeah, oh it wouldn't have worked, it
wouldn't have worked.
You would have to buy a $30adapter, just for it to work
which is kind of so you can getan E-brake bro.

Jeff (08:40):
I've been in the market.
I just got to press that button.
Simshack, or SimShop, has a.
I always call it SimShack forsome.
I apologize for that.
Simshop has a killer deal on aone of their sequentials.
So I'm like I got to just pullthe trigger because I'm never

(09:00):
going to get a deal.

Jason (09:01):
So it's like 30% off.

Jeff (09:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jason (09:04):
Is it the uh combination?

Jeff (09:07):
uh h no I think it's just a straight.
It's one of their nicer ones.
It's got the led readout on it.
I forget the model the q1 yeahuh, so it's q1 yeah, it's a
solid one.
I mean they got a killer deal.
It's only like 30 bucks morethan their.
I say bottom of the line, theiryou know, entry level, I think
is the right word they like touse.

Jason (09:26):
That's a good one.
That's better than mine, it'sall metal, um, solid.

Jeff (09:31):
So I'm just like, just do it, you know, cause it's, it's
and I, and I'm in the market foruh, uh, I've reached out to a
handful of people on Facebookmarketplace for a real wheel, a
round wheel, just so I canfigure out what I like, size
wise, before I you know if I'mgoing to get a nice one, um,
cause I have another, uh, quickrelease that'll just jump right
on there.

Jason (09:50):
So, um, yeah, but dude 70 , 70 millimeters.

Jeff (09:54):
Yeah, I've just been driving everything.

Jason (09:57):
Uh like.

Jeff (09:58):
We have a family friend that's on the Island.
Uh, this week, um, and the dude, um, different social economic
status than I am, has he's gotlike a ferrari 430, uh, a viper.
Oh, wow, you know like he's got.
I don't know how I'm friendswith him he's really my parents
friends but neither here northere, uh, so he was over the
house last night and I I jumpedin the ferrari, the viper that

(10:20):
he has, and like I was cruisingaround monaco, you know, or the
highways system in japan, youknow that they have.
And he thought, and like I wascruising around Monaco, you know
, or the highways system inJapan, you know that they have,
and he thought it was like thecoolest thing ever.
Uh, oh, yeah, he's about to geton one man, yeah, he's like oh
man, it's got like the samething here the stitching and I
was like man that the only thingthat kind of sucks is I love my

(10:43):
wheel.
I wouldn't trade my wheel forthe world, but when we were in
the Viper, it doesn't work.
And when you're drivingrallycross and you're like it
just doesn't work You'll getsmacked around by all the chunky
grips.

Jason (10:58):
Yeah, it's not going to work out.

Jeff (11:00):
It'll hurt yourself man, I really just need to.
You know it's going to bebecause, um, it's gonna be
because you've seen, jason,you've seen my rig where I've
kind of tried to almost makelike the fuselage thing of the
f1 car.
So I'm gonna have to do alittle bit kind of move away
from there just because, dude, I, I don't know, I just wasn't
doing anything.
I wasn't doing anything great,but I was just having a good

(11:22):
time just driving all differenttypes of stuff.

Jason (11:25):
That's why I took the.
So there's a.
There's a difference, right,cause I, and I'm speaking for
myself, and now I'm speaking toyou, cause I can.
You can relate now.
Well, if you want to drivedifferent Sims, you have to give
up some of the immersion to getthe usability or the

(11:50):
compatibility or whatever it is.
I took the roof off my rig thatI built completely, took it off
and ever since I took it off,I'm happier Now.
It looked cool and I couldprobably get some sick shots
from it, but that's not all I do.
You're finding out that formulais what your heart is, but it's

(12:11):
not all you do.

Jeff (12:14):
Yeah, it's cool.
I think I did it once back whenI first started iRacing a
trophy truck, but I was like,man, this is like it's just fun.
It's super fun, right, andthat's I guess why we have these
rigs is to blow off steam andhave fun, right, you know, at
the end of the day, so yeah,yeah, well, I mean, it depends,
right, some, some are morecompetitive than others that's

(12:38):
fair, but they're still havingfun.

Jason (12:40):
I get, I hope no, there, regardless, is it's always fun?
It should be, and if you're nothaving fun, then something's
wrong, something's reallysomething's not right.

Erick (12:49):
You got to figure it out.
I don't know how you're nothaving fun.

Jason (12:59):
Well, you cannot have fun by being uncomfortable or by
getting pains where improperseating or being too hot in the
rig or something that can ruinit.
But you know, if everything isokay and your system is running
and you're not having fun, thenit's just simply not for you.
I mean, I have no other way to.
I can't say anything else.

(13:19):
You know to say anything aboutthat.

Erick (13:22):
Yeah, it could be the case.

Jason (13:24):
Yeah, you know, some people might think it looks cool
and they try it, and maybe not.
It's not for everybody.
Um, a good majority love thehobby though I sure hope so yeah
and your friend is going crazyyeah, and your friend that has
these high-end vehicles and hasa different status than than us.

(13:45):
It, the hobby doesn't choosebetween.
You know that.
There's.
How do I put this?
You got joe rogan.
You got cat williams that aremillionaires and they have
simulators when they can easilybuy the same car.

(14:05):
Dude he was-.

Jeff (14:07):
And his wife stepped out and he's like hey, how much do I
need to get one of these?

Jason (14:13):
I don't know.
Tell him to watch the show man.
We covered basically everythinghere.
I'm about to cover how to buildthe PC.

Erick (14:20):
They gave it to me.

Jason (14:22):
Yeah, so that's a good starting point for him it's
cheaper than a viper or ferrari.
Yeah, for sure and it keeps youout of trouble because you can
afford it and you can drive ithard.
But there's people out therewatching you.
Gotta be careful, you know andthat applies to me too.

(14:43):
I have a, a heavy foot I'vealways had and this thing keeps
me in check, because when I wantto go really fast, I save it.
I save that energy and comehere and try to improve the
immersion as much as I could toget that feedback, which costs
money.
That equals money.
But if we're talking pound forpound, there's no comparison.

(15:06):
You can, for the cost of one ofthose vehicles, you can build
something crazy, you know what Imean for sure.

Jeff (15:12):
Yeah, I was ripping around in like the sf, the super
formula car, around spa withbrake bound, you know, doing all
the things, and he's like youcan drive my cars anytime you
want.

Jason (15:23):
Yeah, I was like I don't have to replace a transmission.

Jeff (15:27):
you know a differential any of that stuff, if I blow it
here.

Jason (15:30):
So Right, right, right.
That's what's up, though.
Good, I'm glad to hear.
I'm glad to hear that.
I'm glad to hear that becausethere's a lot of people asking
about you, jeff, and GRL istrying to find a way to create a
formula race.
I just spoke with one of theadmins just today no, just this

(15:52):
morning, before I had my wholebusy day today.
I had a message and I wastelling him that you're in
Hawaii and that some hours ofthe day you can't make it.
So they're trying to see for away.

Jeff (16:10):
Yeah, I mean I don't know if I told you this, jason, but I
am officially getting out ofthe military now, so fixing to
have some more time.

Jason (16:18):
That's what's up, man.

Jeff (16:20):
It is not easy to get out of the military.
Nor is it quick.
I'm like holy shit.
So it's going to take some time.

Jason (16:26):
It'll take a while but, there's a threshold.

Jeff (16:29):
I'll be transitioning away from work time.
Yeah, that's what I mean.
Once you cross, that line.

Jason (16:34):
it starts to go like this you know, and you start handing
things off, and then you startgoing less and less until you
don't go no more.
You know what I?

Jeff (16:43):
mean Guys.
Now I just got to figure outwhat I want to do when I grow up
and where I want to live andstuff yeah.

Jason (16:48):
Yeah, all right.
Well, this is a great lifeupdate.

Erick (16:53):
I mean Definitely Congratulations.
We've learned a lot here.

Jason (16:57):
I'm just trying to get you to try the league, because
everybody that has they'reloving it, because everybody
that has they're loving it.
Mike from the Sim Racing Denhas made it a permanent thing
and that's a busy man too, verybusy, and he's on there twice a

(17:17):
week with me and we had somefree coaching today from a pro
driver teaching us.
That's cool.
He improved like a second offhis lap time in less than five
minutes.
Yeah, and if you want to seethat, if you don't believe me,
not you guys, I know you guys.
I hope you guys believe me, butanybody watching the show

(17:39):
doesn't believe that.
Go to my Twitch channel andwatch today's stream, which
would be a few days from nowwhen you watch this.

Jeff (17:49):
I mean, are you saying that Mike P had the time to be
able to dock off?
So just kidding Mike A little.
Just kidding Mike, you're afriend of the show.
Yeah, mike's cool, he's cool.
I'm just giving him a hard time.

Jason (18:02):
He's live on comms with me on the stream.
You can hear him talking andhe's.
It's a great place now.
There's rules, as Eric couldtell you.
There's some rules that youneed to follow and they're

(18:22):
serious about it because theexperience is in a good, healthy
state, because people followthe rules and because people are
in line.
So when those things happened,there was a rain of support come
down on Eric.
They were a little hard on him,but then after that it was a

(18:45):
rain of support in the chat andcalling him out by name, saying
that we're here to support youIf you want to do a one-on-one
session, if you're not sure whatto do, all the stuff.
And this is a thousand percentfree of cost, which is insane,

(19:06):
I'm telling you man.
So I'm telling you Jeff, untilyou, until you get on grid and
you feel that pressure, and whenthere's 50 other cars on track
and they're all and they're alltalking, they're all talking,
and they're all there andthey're all fast.
You, you're, there is no slow,nobody, if anything.

(19:28):
We're slow because we're newthere, exactly, and you you do a
decent lap time that youthought was decent, and you look
up and you're like oh, that'snot even yeah, that's, that's
the worst feeling.

Jeff (19:40):
That's the worst feeling I forget it was.

Jason (19:43):
It wasn't this race, but I think the race or two races
prior.
One of the guys in there islike a 9 000 irony believable
yeah 9 000 alien yeah, for sureand he would.
There's a lot of stories anyway.
We could talk about thisforever.
I'll get right into it.

(20:04):
Today I'm going to cover it'snot going to be a crazy in-depth
guide.
If you guys want that, pleaselet me know and I can make a
super in-depth guide and talk toyou about cores, cache and
frequencies what do those mean?
And overclocking, frequencieswhat do those mean?

(20:28):
And overclocking.
But for those people that arejust looking to upgrade, or they
got a PC that was handed downand they want to add some parts,
or you're brand new and youwant to see how much money can I
spend and how much performancecan I get?
Can I spend and how muchperformance can I get?
So my personal opinion withbuilding a PC the PC is the

(20:57):
brains of everything.
It has a motherboard which.
The motherboard controls yourwheel, it controls your pedals,
it controls everything that'sconnected to that device.
If it's on a hub, that hub isgoing to the motherboard.
You know what I mean.
And that motherboard needs howdo you say this?
It's always better to go with amid-range to a high because of

(21:18):
the cost of a PC these days, andif you go too low then you'll
find yourself spending more inthe long run trying to upgrade
that low end and keep it fresh,because the more devices you add
to a computer, the moresoftware that you run in the
background, depending on the SIMthat you're running, depending

(21:41):
on the mods that you haveinstalled.
Windows is another mess.
It's a terrible OS andeverybody knows it, and when
there's an update you're prayingthat things don't break with it
.
You know what I mean, and ithappens quite often.
I mean they've been gettingbetter at it lately.

(22:02):
I don't want to speak too soon,but I'm going to present today
two options, and the firstoption again.
I'm going to keep this verysimple.
The first option is NZXT andNZXT.
If you Google NZXT right now,they have a bad reputation.

(22:23):
They do they have a badreputation.
They do they have a badreputation because of a
subscription model that they'retrying to charge people for PC
gamers.
There's a lot of controversyaround that.
But we're not talking abouttheir subscription model.
I'm talking about buying fromthem because one you don't have

(22:43):
to build the PC.
If you're not comfortable, theywill build it for you.
It's a flat rate of $100, butit's $100 of a two-year
guarantee of their workmanship.
And here's the thing with NZXT.
The prices are retail.
There is no markup.

(23:03):
That is the one thing aboutthem.
So if you happen to find a 9800X3D, that's what I have back
here and I paid $400 for it.
If you go on the street, a 9800was going for like 800, 900
because of scalpers.
Nzxt protects you from thescalpers and they didn't reach

(23:28):
out.
I'm not a partner, I'm nothing.
I'm just.
I am the host of this show andI'm trying to save you money.
I'm trying to.
I'm going to encourage you tospend a little, but in the long
run, you're going to thank melater, you're going to thank me.

Jeff (23:45):
You pointed me over there to them and I built a PC with
some of your help and it waslike three days later, this box
sitting at my doorstep, yeah,and I could nothing but good
things to say about them overthere.

Jason (24:00):
And that's us being in Hawaii.

Jeff (24:02):
Yeah, Super fast shipping and I was like this thing's
going to come in a millionpieces.

Jason (24:05):
It came literally over the weekend.
You hit buy Monday morning PC'sbuilt.
What do you do?
You plug it in.
There is no.
What you call this.
Well there's the window set up.
You got to sign in like anyother person would sign in.

(24:26):
But you're ready to go racingand I recommend that route
because PC building is not hard.
You can YouTube it and you canfind the guide on where to put
parts.
But if you're not comfortabletouching parts or handling these
pieces, they got you, they gotprofessionals that are working

(24:48):
there.
They do a nice clean cablemanagement.

Erick (24:51):
Jeff could tell you a million bucks, yeah, so how are
they making money?

Jason (24:56):
because that's crazy, I'm just, I'm just about to show
you, bro, right now look I'mjust saying because the $100
flat fee for assembling yourcomputer are these like?

Erick (25:10):
are you just picking the parts and you tell them to put
it in?
And I guess, if you're,professional.

Jeff (25:15):
So, it's like you click on something and then like the PC,
the box, whatever the hell it'scalled, and it'll tell you,
like what fits in there, whatyou can select.
Oh, if you want that, you gotto go change this, yeah.

Jason (25:29):
I'm going to go through that right now, gentlemen.

Jeff (25:33):
Get it.

Jason (25:34):
And one thing I recommend is don't buy pre-built PCs that
is the biggest scam and stayaway from refurbished, because
we don't want anything used whoknows what's wrong with it and
we don't want subscriptions,because I have too many
subscriptions already.
Well, nevermind, no, we're noteven going to go there, don't

(25:56):
even bother dude.
So like, for example, if I goto, let's see, it looks
different on the see.
These are the pre-built customPCs.
Right, look how easy this is,guys.
Customize a PC Now.

(26:19):
This is a very important screen.
This will give you an exampleof how many FPS you'll get.
We don't care about these.
We're sim racers.
We do care about 1440p gamingRecommend and we do care about
the chipset being AMD, becauseAMD is king and they've been
king for five years and they'restill the king.

(26:40):
So sorry for you Intel fanboysout there you can come and get
me yeah, you can come and get me.
Yeah, you can come and attack,I'm ready.

Erick (26:47):
We're down that hill right now.

Jason (26:50):
So AMD, right, let's say, let's start with the 1500,
build the budget.
But I'm going to show you atrick or two.
But I'm going to show you atrick or two.

(27:13):
So here it is, loading, yep.
So I'm going to give you guys arundown.
It comes with an eight sevenflow.
Um, I don't know what's wrongwith this.
Okay, there it is.
So software do you need WindowsPro?
The answer is no.
You don't need Windows Pro forgaming.
Now, if your productivity, ifyou want to use the PC for like

(27:33):
work and gaming, then get thepro license.
It's an extra $30.
Okay, so the tower.
You can save a little money bydumping down the tower.
But I also I always recommend atower that has many fans, so
that way you don't have to putfans later.

(27:53):
Like this right here has.
Well, I would have to go, Iwould have.
You can select the color too.
You can look.
Eric, you like white builds?
That would have been the onefor you right here.

Erick (28:04):
Yes, sir, I saw that motherboard.
I was tempted.

Jason (28:13):
So I don't want to go into detail, right, but what you
could basically do is you cansearch up each tower and see
what they come with.
Rgb there's higher tiers.
Well, right now I'm trying tosave you money.
This is kind of like does itmatter?
No, it doesn't really matter.
We don't see the tower.
If you're going for a triplescreen, you don't really see the
tower.
And even if you do, it's anovelty, I will say it.

(28:34):
It's a beautiful thing to lookat.
But when you're racing, you'renot looking at the PC, you're
looking at the.
You're down range, you're downon the track.
So I wouldn't worry about RGBbecause you're just paying more
for looks.
Now here's where it getsinteresting Cooling.
I always recommend somethingthat has see.

(28:59):
All of these are RGB becausethey're trying to push you onto
the RGB, but I would alwaysrecommend because cooling is one
of the most important things.
I would compare the differencebetween these two and let's say
I'll go with this.
Why?
Because there's no.

(29:21):
Honestly, water cooled is theway to go.
Liquid cooling is the mostefficient and it's quiet.
It has fans, but it's quiet.
You can also add more fans, butmore on that later.
So your motherboard that's themotherboard I have right here,
the 870.

(29:42):
So the motherboard depends onthe chipset that you want to put
in.
So before you select themotherboard, I would go down to
this right here.
Cpu and, to keep it simple,right, anything that has a 3D

(30:02):
clock is always going to befaster for gaming because it has
a separate core dedicated forgaming.
So it's always going to be.
Then the X series.
The X series is more gearedtowards productivity users.
Even if it's clocked higher, Iwill take this chip and

(30:26):
overclock it and it'll beat thischip to death if that's what I
have the 7800 3dx nice, that's agreat processor, right?
so now, with these are these aregrayed out because this
motherboard doesn't support thatchip.
So if want, you would have tolook at basically the

(30:50):
differences.
Right, this is a 200 plus 290.
You save money.
I mean, you spend a little moremoney, but you got to look at
what you're getting.
This probably has Wi-Fi 7.
This probably has more slots.
This probably has.
They all support the currentgen.

(31:10):
See any 9,000 series.
Right now, even the 7,000s areAM5, and that is the current gen
of today.
So you would be good with that.
So just to keep it simple again, I don't want to go into detail
, I'll be here all night, so Iwould have to look at, let me

(31:40):
see.
So here you got RAM capacityand the highest RAM speed with a
5200.
Now let's compare.
If I pay an extra 290, what amI getting?
Okay, their website is kind ofokay, a little slow.
So here it is.
Wi-fi is engineered.
Let me see 9,000 seriesprocessor, pcie 5.
So PCIe 5 and Wi-Fi 7, aspredicted.

(32:03):
Look, called it.
Pcie 5 is a 50 series gpu ready.
The 550 90.
You'll be able to maximizeperformance on this.
Um, sir, usb 4 is really fast.
Usb ports.
Um, most sim racing gear usesUSB.

(32:26):
Two is so.
You know, the thing about simgear is the power power, power
consumption.
But look at the RAM capacity,ram speed.
So it just depends an AM5, aspredicted.
There it is AM5 socket, so willI.

(32:49):
I would spend the extra moneyon this, why?
Because it's future-proofing.
Wi-fi 7 is actually the currentand there's not many routers
that support it yet, but thatdoesn't mean it can't do Wi-Fi 6
or 5 or so on and so forth.

(33:09):
So if I pick this motherboardand of course there's a lot that
goes into this, like how manyUSB ports I'm just trying to
shorten it so that way you guyscan see, kind of get an idea
right, kind of get an idea right.

(33:33):
So now, hmm, so these might be.

Jeff (33:35):
Let me see something let's see it's grayed out for some
could it be that they're out ofstock it could be.

Jason (33:43):
it could be it should support that chipset yeah
because it's supporting the new9700 series.
Yeah, all of these are the same.
It should be the same socketsize.
It might be out of stock, butright here, your GPU.
Skipping over to your GPU, Imean your options.

(34:08):
Look, you got a 4090 triple fan.

Jeff (34:12):
That's a tall drink of water, baby.

Jason (34:16):
We got to check retail pricing on that Just to make
sure.
I'm pretty sure they'resupposed to sell at retail.

Jeff (34:24):
You have the 4070 Ti above it.
That's what I'm running.

Jason (34:27):
So this, for this price, is not worth it.
Hands down.
I'll tell you now it's notworth it.
So let's say you did get a 4070Ti.
You said a Ti.

Jeff (34:40):
Yeah, that one.
I don't think they're.

Jason (34:42):
It's not available.
It's like grayed out for me forwhatever reason.
It's like grayed out for me, forwhatever reason.
So here you can see the TDPapproximate and the clock speed
and everything else.
You want to do research, youwant to watch reviews, you want
to Google all of this.
You want to go on YouTube andsee, just Google the name of the

(35:04):
graphics card and check outperformance.
But usually a 4070 is prettydamn good.
So, as you can see this pricejump, we're at 2300 and I'm not
even done with power suppliesand RAM.
It looks like they're low onstock.
It's probably because of thisPresident's Day sale that they

(35:25):
got going on.

Jeff (35:26):
Yeah, I did see that.

Jason (35:27):
Yeah, and that's at the time of this recording guys, so
maybe come back and check thisout.
Um, yeah, I would not buyanything under a seven, anything
under an 850 at this point.
I would try and get yourself athousand watt, um, which is

(35:47):
upgraded to that same powersupply to 850 um in white oh,
this one okay yeah yeah, sothere's your ram and it supports
it.
So supports up to 8 000.
You can also get this one, buthonestly, just look at ram
timings, which is anotherconversation, a totally

(36:07):
different conversation, with RAMtimings and all kinds of stuff.
Ssd oh, they're like really lowon stock.

Jeff (36:14):
Yeah.

Jason (36:15):
Really low.
So let me go back, and I'mdoing this real time with you
guys.
I didn't plan this.
Let me look at a high buildjust to see.

Erick (36:28):
Or maybe those parts are compatible but they exceed the
budget.
Maybe that's why they're grayedout.

Jason (36:35):
Yeah, but even if you pick that higher budget, you can
manipulate this still and makeit your own and take off money
here and there.

Jeff (36:45):
Yeah, because that's what I did.
I was like you know.

Jason (36:48):
Yeah, they're not in stock is what it is oh, okay
yeah but it's a super, superuseful tool.

Jeff (36:54):
To your point, jason over, like you know, trade off here
to add more there, right andreal-time pricing.
It just, it just is super easy.
And then it just shows it.
Like me I'm, some are into thePC building that is right over
my head.
Just show up, I want to plug itin, I want to go.

Jason (37:13):
Yeah, and then you have, like, today's recording is the
13th, so in five days that thisthing will be shipped exactly
how you want it, exactly how youcustomized it, all right.
So I'm going to look at anothertool, and this one is going to
be more geared toward you peoplethat want to custom build, that

(37:41):
have a little more hands-onapproach.
So I think it's a tool thatEric likes.
So I think it's a tool thatEric likes.

Erick (37:52):
I'm pretty sure he he visited this website before.

Jason (37:53):
Oh yeah, so this is pc park picker right now.
Look how cool this is.
It already gives me a link tothis build so I can share what
I'm building to you right awayand you can open it and see what
I did.
So let's say I wanted a CPU andlet's say I want that 7800X 3D

(38:14):
and it costs $49.99.
You see the difference inpricing.
It's way higher.
So let's do that.
And then I go and I think, yeah, so this will automatically
tell you what motherboard thatchip is compatible with.

(38:35):
So let's say you had amotherboard and you typed it up
in here, you could see whatsocket if it works, you can see
the form factor, which is a hugething, and the AM5, right, am5
socket should be all of thembecause of that CPU that I chose

(38:58):
.
So this is just I mean it's aquick thing.
I wanted to show you guys on howto you know different options
and tools for you to build yourfirst PC.
Again, I would to recap this Iwould stay away from pre-builds,

(39:19):
because pre-builds are going tosell you something that you may
not want, right?
There's going to be a part inthere that's going to be like
okay, I guess I'll accept thatpart.
It's not like NZXT, which I cansee if it has parts that work
for my situation, or if you havea PC and you want to upgrade it

(39:42):
and you're not sure if a partis compatible.
I didn't show you, guys, but PCPart Picker will also total out
the amount of wattage that yourPC is projected to pull, which
is a huge thing.
But I will say this the higheryou go, the better off you'll be
, because you don't want to push750 watts on a 850 CPU.

(40:09):
You're choking it to death.
Essentially, it's working atfull capacity, max load, and if
anything spikes, anythinghappens, it could be a problem.
So I'm just I know this guideis more geared to the very

(40:29):
beginner that doesn't reallyknow about pc components and
parts.
Um, and once yeah, and oncesomething that, hey, I want a
sim race and I want to.
I want a sim race right now andI want to just hit buy and it

(40:50):
come here.
Because, honestly, bro,building a rig, putting it
together, then you have a PCwith a million parts on your
table.
Then you got to build that.
Some people like it, somepeople don't.
Some people have the time to dothat too.
I mean, honestly, those are twogood tools to look out for and

(41:12):
catch a sale.
I know, probably by the end ofthis recording, by the time
excuse me, by the time thisrecording airs, that sale might
be gone, but it's not the onlysale.
I purchased during Black Fridayand they had very good
discounts and it'll total out atthe end and give you a final
price and then you can comparethose parts to the market.

(41:36):
You can also use it as a tool.
You can take those parts, seewhere the market compares to and
if it's cheaper to go thatroute and have them build it for
you, then by all means.
That's why I had it pre-built.
That's one of the reasons Iwanted a 9800X3D and I wanted it
now and it was sold outeverywhere and they had it at

(41:57):
MSRP.
So, yeah, that's my take on PCs.
Honestly, any decentmotherboard in 2025 is going to
be good.
Any brands I recommend, I guess?
Well, msi is a great brand Ilike.
Rog is a great brand.

(42:18):
Nvidia is a great brand.
Amd, so that's 90% of yourcomputer built already.
Um, yeah, and NZXT coolers,because that's what they're
known for.
That's what they started outdoing was cases and and AIOs.
You know all in one coolers.

(42:39):
So they're coolers.
I trust them, you.
You know this is my second NZXTbuild and not a single issue.
And I think Jeff has one and Idon't think he's had a problem
with it either.
Nope, nothing, I shouldn't sayit, set it down yeah.

Jeff (42:55):
This is me knocking on wood.

Jason (42:58):
You know other than Windows and NVIDIA Surround, but
that's any PC you build, I havethe same issues.

Jeff (43:04):
Can't get away from that and NVIDIA surround, but that's
any PC you build, I have thesame issues.

Jason (43:07):
Can't get away from that.
Yeah, it's getting better.
It's getting better.

Jeff (43:10):
Don't let them off the hook.

Jason (43:15):
I know I'm trying to stay a little positivity on the show
.
If it's not EA, it's freakingNVIDIA.

Erick (43:22):
If it's not NVIDIA, it's I don't know bro, yeah, man,
yeah, I'll say, uh, that um nzxtsite is dope.
Because even with me, like I'veworked with computers for like
almost 20 years and know my wayaround them pretty well and went
on pc part picker, pick mystuff, and if you're familiar

(43:46):
with building computers but it'snot your job every day, you
know it's maybe a couple yearssince you built one um it.
It gives you a little bit ofpeace of mind.
But even once you get the partsat home, it's still yeah, I
mean, especially if you're doinglike the rgb route and you know
I got a ao that has a displayon it and all this stuff it's.
There's a couple more things toplug up and connect and

(44:09):
configure than you might've, youknow, done in the past.
But, um right, I haven't for ahundred bucks, like I'm not
gonna.
I'm not gonna lie.
It took me about two, threedays to build my PC and get
everything plugged up,configured, working.
That's with me being fairlyexpert level Just having the

(44:32):
case taking the motherboard outthe box.
If you don't do that every day,you're going to have to look up
stuff and double check.

Jason (44:41):
You're going to have to stop and check to see if this
goes plugged in here.

Jeff (44:46):
If that goes plugged in here, so I will say this I'd
still be there putting my thingtogether.

Jason (44:53):
So put it this way you bought parts from Amazon or PC
part picker.

Erick (45:01):
Yeah, I bought it from Amazon.

Jason (45:03):
All those parts.
Most of them have a warranty.

Erick (45:07):
Rob Markman.
Oh, all of mine, yeah.

Jason (45:08):
Rob Markman, Motherboards usually come with a five-year
warranty, usually, depending ifyou go with a name brand like
the ones I mentioned.
However, those are how do yousay this?
A manufacturer defect.
But if you installed the partand you snapped the pin, you

(45:32):
dropped it.
Something happened to it, Rob.

Jeff (45:34):
Markman Jr.
That's not you.

Jason (45:36):
Rob Markman Jr.
That's not you that came thatway.
Rob Markman Jr.
Yeah, you buy something fromNZXT.
They're guaranteeing the entirePC for the cost that's how I
look at it For the cost of $100.
You buy a TV today in Best Buythat costs two grand, which is
about the same amount of moneywe're talking about, and they're
going to charge you $200 or$300 to insure that TV for three

(45:57):
years.
Am I wrong?
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
So, NZXT is charging you $100 toship an item that's shipped,
built and guaranteed for twoyears.
You can't beat that.
You can't beat it.

Erick (46:11):
You will not beat it.

Jason (46:14):
Yeah, Just make sure that you compare, though.
You compare prices and you, howdo you say this?
Watch the market and don't rushinto a PC build either.
If you're not sure about it.
Do the research.
Don't just buy it because itlooks cool.
Do your research and don't lookat raw numbers.

(46:34):
I know what we displayed isbecause I'm on a time limit here
on the show, but I'm justtrying to present a tool that
you can use.
Whether you decide to buy fromthem or not, it's still a good
indicator on, well, how muchwould this cost?
Because a lot of people havethat question how much should I

(46:54):
spend?
You know what I mean, and itdepends what kind of build
you're looking for.
But I recommend at least stayon the current gen, AM5 gen.
Do not buy anything older thanthat.
And for GPUs, I would recommendyou stay on the 40 series.
The 30 series is alreadysunsetting.

(47:14):
The 20 series.
Man, I feel bad.
I feel for you.
I feel for you.
It's about to go down inhistory.
Unless you're running a singlescreen and you want to turn the
graphics way down, then itdepends.
Well, what are your priorities?
What do you want?
Do you want immersion, or doyou want both immersion and

(47:35):
performance.
That's something to think about.

Erick (47:38):
Yeah, like we say cry once, buy once, save up, get a
40 series, specifically becauseit is kind of being
grandfathered into some of thenewest NVIDIA tech that they
came out with.

Jason (47:58):
The DLSS.

Erick (47:59):
It'll support a lot of the same features that the 50
series card will support, andalso the 50 series just in raw
power.
Isn't that big of a jump of thesame uh features that the 50
series card will support, andalso the 50 series just in raw
power.
Isn't that big of a jump overthe 40 either?

Jason (48:09):
so right, we we lightly touched and that's why we're
doing this one, because you knowit was a good little segment
and I just figured, well, let'spiggyback off that because, um,
yeah, it's trying to.
You may look at it like anexpense, like insane, but you

(48:30):
can easily if a PC like kind ofthe ones that they're trying to
sell you, that's a good five orsix years of service and when
you want to upgrade it you don'treally have to change much out
of it.
Hopefully, hopefully, butanyway, and they hold their

(48:53):
value too.
When you buy brand name stuffthey always hold their value.
I was able to sell my PC.
I got it.
I got like $1,500 back, oh yeah, so I mean there's always
people looking to buy somethingand if you take care of your
stuff and you buy quality parts,the better off you'll be in the

(49:14):
long run.

Erick (49:15):
For sure.

Jason (49:19):
And I can't believe I made through that, because I you
powered through man.
I know it's just exciting totalk about hardware.
I don't want to go into depth,but if you guys have questions,
send us an email.
I'll give you the facts onstuff if you need them.

(49:40):
If you need me to or any of theguys here, they can chime in.

Erick (49:44):
Yeah sure, definitely.
I'll give you a rest, jason.
You need them.
If you need me to, or any ofthe guys here, they can chime in
.
Yeah sure, definitely, but uh,but I'll give you a rest, jason.
I'm gonna go into uh, into mytopic here, and this is one that
I've seen and I've beenanswering as many questions as I
can in, you know, facebookgroups and discords, but if, and

(50:06):
I'm gonna have- to unplug itjust because it doesn't.
It only works if it's pluggedinto the ps5, which is kind of
stuck over there.
But if you're not familiar withthis device, this is the sigma
cortex converter.
So this puppy right here iswhat allows you to use sim magic
.
Uh, gear pedals, wheels,handbrakes, shifters, all that

(50:28):
stuff on your PS5.
And we had someone reach out.

Jason (50:32):
It looks slick, dude.
I didn't think it was thatsmall.

Erick (50:35):
Yeah, it's a.
Now, you know.

Jeff (50:38):
It's a chunky guy.
Yeah, it's got a little girthto it, if you will.

Erick (50:41):
Yeah, yeah, there's a little girth there going on
there, but it's not that bad,you know yeah, it's, it's chunky
and just for for context likethis, is it next to like a ps5
controller, if I don't knock mysetup over, but yeah, that's not
bad yeah, not too big.
Um, it does have a type c portand it comes with all the cables
you need and it has a four porthub on the top.

(51:03):
Nice, okay, focus, yeah, soit's really compact, well built
Aluminum, has a display thatwhen you plug it in it'll light
up.
Like I said, my PS five's overthere.
But I'm gonna go through mysettings in response to an email
that we got requesting that youknow just kind of want to know
what my settings are, that youknow just kind of want to know

(51:27):
what my settings are.
And I'm going to head thegentleman's name here here,
second, uh, mr josh barnett, anduh, actually he's in alabama as
well.

Jason (51:44):
so that's pretty cool, um , yeah yeah, man, there's a lot
of people that stood up when yousaid alabama yeah, man, it's.

Erick (51:52):
You know I ain't gonna get into the real time
conversation.
I'm not a.
Do not come for me, all right,I support the school.
They got my money, it wasn't ohno, oh no, you know that's not
who I support, but I'm gonnaplug this in and I'm gonna go

(52:13):
through the settings here for asecond okay, that's cool man so
so this will be yeah, sure go.

Jason (52:21):
This is real quick.
I mean, eric bought this out ofpure faith.
I told him there's a converter,it may or may not work and he
became like a-.

Jeff (52:38):
Legend.

Jason (52:39):
Like a SME, a subject matter expert.

Jeff (52:42):
I remember.

Jason (52:43):
People pinging him and messaging him on Discord.
You guys need to pay attention.

Jeff (52:47):
I remember when you posted on I forget which Facebook
group it was, but like thecomments in, there were gold.
They're like the hero we didn'tknow we needed, but all wanted.
You know, it was like.

Jason (53:01):
Yeah, that was cool, man oh shit, that was awesome.

Erick (53:03):
Yeah, because it was because you know Jason and cool
man oh shit, that was awesome.
Yeah, because it was BecauseJason and Jeff, you might be
this way as well, but when wekind of get a hold of something,
we turn over every rock.

Jason (53:13):
Oh yeah.

Erick (53:14):
Pebble.
Oh yeah, we're searchingsomething we're digging.

Jason (53:17):
I click on every single tab.

Erick (53:19):
Every tab.
I'm reading the manual, I'mlooking online, I download it to
me, looking at it, just so Ikind of have idea of what I'm,
you know what I'm getting.
And there wasn't a lot of.
There were like pieces ofinformation in separate places,

(53:40):
but there wasn't like one placewhere they kind of addressed
because it's not, you know, it'snot native, so it's about 95
percent plug and play, justbeing transparent, and if you
are racing anything other thangt7, I think that was really
their focus.
Um, which makes sense.
That's by far the largest umyeah, yeah on playstation um

(54:05):
based on which build you'rerunning it works with.

Jason (54:07):
That's the best racing game on ps5.

Erick (54:10):
I'm sorry oh, yeah, yeah and community wise.
I mean, we got a set of courseof there, but it it's yeah, so
the force force feedback on theset, of course, is better than
gt7, like by far yeah, I'm.

Jason (54:23):
I'm just saying you don't have access to the multiplayer
servers, so it automaticallykind of closes the community on
PS5.

Erick (54:34):
Yeah, because you're stuck playing just PS5.
People, which is not that manyon HTC.

Jason (54:39):
Yeah, and good luck getting a clean race in there
too.

Erick (54:43):
I got in there, man, it took me back to our Xbox days.
People were talking crazy andstuff.
I'm like is this Call of Duty?
Of course?
What's going on here?
Man, it was crazy, but yeah,it's a lifesaver.
It really gives you some otheroptions, because I know we
talked about some of the optionsthat are out there for console

(55:04):
play, logitech, and you know itjust gives you access to another
ecosystem and so just kind ofI'm going to have to be a little
awkward here, but to go throughit gives you several different
options.
So pretty much all the optionsyou have.
If you're running the softwareyou can do your total force, and
I just read the option and thepercentage I'm running.

(55:27):
So for total force, I'm running75%.
I'm on the SimMagic Alpha, so15-newton-meter wheelbase, total
force 75%.
Max torque is 80%.
Wheel return speed is 20%.
Smoothness is at a 4.
Return speed is 20%, smoothnessis at a four.

(55:50):
And for GT seven they dosomething weird with the um, the
steering angle.
They do some sort of likecalculation based on the car
you're in.
So even if you set it at, youknow, 600 based on the car
you're in, it'll automaticallykind of adjust it.
So right now I have mine at 600, but that was to match up with
the Ferrari I was driving heremost recently.

Jason (56:10):
Which is weird, that's so weird.

Erick (56:12):
So I'll have to bump that up and bump it down, like in
formula cars.
Nothing I do.
I can get it to be one-to-onewith Not even 360?

Jason (56:21):
Because usually 360 is a formula.
Formula is kind of just oneturn, like that.
It won't go further than that.

Erick (56:31):
Rob Markman.
Yeah, I can try it again, butRob Markman.
That's why the wheel is sosmall, rob Markman, because Rob
Markman, and that's the reasonwhy it kind of sucks, because
I'm having to move a lot moreand the person in the you know
in the car is barely turning andso I'm losing, I'm having to go
hand over hand and stuff.
But yeah, that's the only car Ifound that's kind of weird in

(56:53):
gt7 and it might be a cortexthing.

Jason (56:55):
But I'll follow up with you, I'll come down to 360 and
see if that it also depends onthe type of wheel you're using
too.
If you're like a round wheel,then yeah well I'm a neo guy so
if you got a neo, then yeah, youcan, you can, you can get away
with using that for formula andyou can get away if slightly

(57:16):
larger.

Erick (57:16):
I know it's bigger.

Jason (57:17):
Yeah, yes, slightly though not by a lot, you know
it's still 300.
I mean formula is like 275 inreal life or 280 yeah okay,
because they keep changing them,or the cars change and the
wheels kind of.
But if you look at jeff, couldprobably definitely talk about
this.
This is his realm, um, but ifyou look at the fuselage,

(57:40):
there's no room, bro, like thefuselage is, literally it's when
they shave the fuselage, sothere's no room, bro, the
fuselage is literally.

Jeff (57:44):
It's when they shave the fuselage so they can get their
hand through.

Jason (57:50):
Any false movement and you're hitting the.
It's wild, the metal, solidmetal or whatever it is Carbon
fiber yeah.

Erick (58:03):
That shit is freaking huge.

Jason (58:06):
It's curved to their.
So there is no back and forthin a formula.
The seating position, that'syour car, molded to your ass.

Jeff (58:19):
Yeah.

Erick (58:22):
So I'm definitely way out of spec when it comes to
driving and stuff.

Jason (58:26):
And it makes sense, right ?
Because a GT style you'reupright.
There's more freedom to do thiswith your arms.
They don't have that option.
These guys are laying down.
So you see my arms.
The way they're bent is alittle bit more, bit more.
I'm exaggerating, but you knowwhat I mean.

(58:46):
Car needs to be able to steerthis occasionally.

Jeff (58:50):
Yeah, yeah, unless you're lance stroll unless you're
stroll or fernando.

Jason (58:55):
That doesn't give a shit.
That's why I love him.
He doesn't give a shit.
There was a meme.
I'm sorry I had to put this out, but there was a meme.
He was like uh, fernando, whattire do you want to put on next?
He's like I don't know, youpick the tire, I drive the car.
I drive the car.

Jeff (59:11):
He saw that, bro he's such a driver's driver right, he's
like just put something on there, I'll rip.

Jason (59:18):
I'll drive the hell out of it.

Erick (59:20):
difference that's hilarious.
Hey, that's the driver, thoughman yeah, I'm gonna drive
whatever it is.
I'm gonna drive the hell out ofit, so it don't matter you
don't have to be there.

Jason (59:30):
Lonzalo's a billionaire.
He, he's good oh those are the.
Those are the worst type ofguys to work around yeah, yeah
somebody that ain't got to bethere he's in his 40s, he ain't
got to be there he can retiretomorrow yeah, I can't wait till
I get to that point, just forsome shit to do.

Jeff (59:48):
Just for some shit to do.

Erick (59:49):
Y'all going to hate me.
I'm not doing nothing I want todo.
Anybody say something crazy.
I'm meeting you right therewith it, yeah.

Jason (59:59):
Man.

Erick (01:00:02):
That's hilarious man.
But just wrapping up thesettings, like I said, the wheel
angle limit, that's yoursteering angle, that's just what
they call it in here.
Mechanical spring we're runningzero.
Mechanical damper 25.
Mechanical friction is 20.
Mechanical inertia, centraldamper, are both at zero.
Feedback detail I have at nine.

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Feedback frequency is zero.
Uh, feedback detail I have atnine.
Feedback frequency is zero.
And then for game spring, gamedamper, game friction and game
inertia are all at 100.
And then for soft lock strength,I have it at default and they
have some other um kind ofspecific options on here, like
radio channel, like you can setup different channels with sets

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of options that you can cyclethrough, memory slots where you
can save your settings, resetslots, and then you can do your
center calibration, which youknow on the sim magic deal.
They do it automatically.
You don't have to worry aboutthat.
But um, one important piece ismake sure you plug your steering

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wheel separately into your PC,update the firmware on that,
plug your wheelbase in and setthe torque to 100 in the
wheelbase in the software, sothat way when you're adjusting
this guy, the wheelbase isbasically operating with the

(01:01:25):
full 15 newton meters and notanything less.
Um, and they make sure justkeeping everything up to date as
well yeah just forcompatibility and um, also this.
Uh, speaking of updates, thisguy has updates.
Um, they've slowed down alittle bit, which I guess if

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you've been looking at somemagic here recently they're
they've been kind of preoccupied.
They've been dropping a lot ofnew stuff, but right now this
cortex is kind of in a goodplace, especially for GT seven.
You're getting the actualdirect drive feedback right.
When I got it they were justcoming out with direct drive.
They were doing they wereemulating a g29 and it was crazy

(01:02:09):
, like you could, when you wererunning the build that doesn't
do the g29, I mean it does theg29 emulation.
You could feel the clunk likethat.
When I first plugged it up Iwas talking to jason like this
is it says emulating the G29.
When you plug it into thePlayStation it shows a G29 and
it I had a G29 it felt likeclunky, like it was physical

(01:02:31):
gears in there like the geardriven because it was emulating.
The hell out of it yeah, andthen when I updated to the
direct drive one and everythingjust like tightened up, it was
like a completely differentproduct and I felt like the
direct drive difference likejust the smoothness of it, the
quietness, like it was even loudlike a, almost like a gear

(01:02:55):
driven.

Jason (01:02:56):
I was like this this is crazy, but yeah, once you get
used to that dude, it's hard.
You can't go back.
You can't go back.

Erick (01:03:02):
I will not go back.
It's hard, you can't go back.
I will not go back.
For real, it's not happening.

Jason (01:03:09):
There's no way.
There's no way.

Erick (01:03:15):
And just to, I guess, speaking of the update, I'm
currently running firmwareversion 1.1.4.

Jason (01:03:21):
Okay, as of today.

Erick (01:03:23):
I don't have any.
That's not the latest.
The latest is 1.1.
Okay, as of today.
Yeah, so I don't have any.
That's not the latest.
The latest is 1.1.7, but 1.1.4gives you, it's the one that
works with ACC as well.

Jason (01:03:38):
I see yeah.

Erick (01:03:40):
I did have somebody reach out to me and they were having
issues with it and I was running1.1.7, which for me it doesn't
make a difference.
It adds in functionality forsome of the other accessories
like handbrakes and sequentialshifters and stuff like that.
But 1.1.4, it solves an issuewith ACC, where as soon as you

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start the game up well, not assoon as you start the game, as
soon as you start a race, likeyou start the car up and you hit
the gas the wheel just goesfull.

Jason (01:04:07):
I remember that All the way right to the right or left
or whatever it was.

Erick (01:04:12):
It just goes full lock and it scares the shit out of
you first and second yeah, it'sa strong wheel Every time it
does it.

Jason (01:04:20):
Every time it does it.
Yeah, it's a strong wheel doingthat going.

Erick (01:04:28):
Yeah, it's a strong will doing that.
You're not expecting it, yeah,yeah, so, um, trying to make
sure I covered everything that'simportant.
Update the cortex.
Um, if you're interested in acc1.1.4 and if you got any
questions, drop them in the inthe chat.
Uh, I know the information iskind of scattered out there and
you know, I guess it's anopportunity for me to put
together some sort of guide onthe cortex, something I need to

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do Right now.
Drop a question, leave acomment on the video.
Also like and subscribe ifyou're not as well.

Jason (01:05:01):
Oh yeah, of course.

Erick (01:05:02):
The cortex.

Jason (01:05:03):
I mean it's a good tool, right.
It's a good tool to get you.
It's great.
Yeah, man, so that way you canbuy the hardware that you really
want to buy.
If you like the SimMagicecosystem and you can't
technically get a PC yet, thisis an option that you can use
the stuff that you bought and orpick it up on a sale, whatever.

(01:05:27):
So I mean I think it's worth it.
I think it's worth it's like ahundred bucks, right.

Erick (01:05:33):
Uh 125.

Jason (01:05:34):
Yep, okay, 125.

Erick (01:05:36):
Which is easy, I mean, if you are like me, which I knew
at some point down the road.
I wanted the option to moveover to PC, or at least
experience PC even if I didn'tmove over there full time and I
literally plug in one cable, onefrom.
I, plug it from here, plug itinto my PC and my haptics pedals

(01:06:01):
wheel everything.
I connect my MagLink and I'mfully over PC.
I'm taking advantage of SimHub.
I got the lights on the Neo.
Shout out to Daniel Newman, robMarkman.

Jason (01:06:13):
Jr.
Dnr.
Rob Markman Jr.
Yeah, rob Markman Jr.

Erick (01:06:15):
I ordered the beans bro.
I ordered the beans Rob.

Jason (01:06:17):
Markman.

Jeff (01:06:18):
Jr A good man Rob.

Jason (01:06:18):
Markman Jr, I paid $20 for a can.
That's coming from the UK.
And then he messaged me.
He's like, yeah, the giveawayis over.
I was like Daniel, yeah,somebody won a year of the NR
membership just for eating beanson toast, oh man.
So what you going to do?

Erick (01:06:39):
So he's going to do this.

Jason (01:06:40):
I told him there needs to be another challenge.
Like fish and chips.
So I don't know what's in theUK like tea?
I don't know.

Erick (01:06:50):
So they do have something else.
I forget the name of it, butbasically it's like a baked
potato.
Yeah, yeah, yeah and it's like80% of what we do, and then they
slap beans and tuna on it.
It's like, oh, tuna, yeah, yeah, it's weird.

Jason (01:07:05):
It's like Cool Tuna.

Erick (01:07:06):
Yeah, it's weird Not to not confuse you, but that's
something that's different thanhow we do our baked potatoes.
We might put half a pig onthere, or something like that.
But beans and tuna is not theroute we would go down.

Jason (01:07:16):
I'll say that I want to apologize.
I want to apologize.
If we have a viewer from the UK, please correct us Please.

Jeff (01:07:26):
Tuna and beans on a potato .

Jason (01:07:28):
I can't do tuna and beans .
That is a straight trip to thebathroom.

Jeff (01:07:33):
I'm assuming there is a canned tuna.
Right, it's not Instant bro.

Erick (01:07:37):
So the video I saw and there might be somebody's
homemade recipe where they usedifferent quality ingredients,
but the video I saw can of beansbloop and can of tuna right on
top.

Jason (01:07:50):
Oh, I can't.
I mean, hey, thank you If wehave UK Daniel Newman's, our
only one that I know of.
Daniel's going to beat us up,man Daniel's going to come at us
with a force to be reckonedwith.
So, daniel, if you made it thisfar, feel free to come at us.

Erick (01:08:10):
Let us know what's up.
I'll try.
I'll try anything once.

Jason (01:08:16):
I'm going to do the beans and toast, though Beans and
toast is good man.

Jeff (01:08:19):
I do.
The beans on the bread, like Isaid, that's kind of something
he got me into when I was a kid.
The beans on the bread, like Isaid, my old man's, that's kind
of something he got me into whenI was a kid.

Erick (01:08:26):
But not the toast.
I'll try the toast next time.
Yeah, yeah, that's cool.

Jason (01:08:28):
Yeah, all right.
Well, thanks, eric.
Thank you so much for coverageon that.
I think that was over.
I think that was due.
So good call.
I think that was due because alot of people, a lot of
followers, are using the simmagic gear and a lot of them are
on console too.
So maybe they were a littlehesitant on if it's, you know if

(01:08:49):
it's worth it.
But you know, you're livingproof.
It's almost been a year, I wantto say, or getting close, very
close, to having that Sim.
We started the show in May.
May is our anniversary, so ifyou guys want to send us an
anniversary gift or card, let meknow.

Erick (01:09:11):
A birthday month too, An e-gift.

Jason (01:09:13):
Send us an e-gift and address it to Jeff, Eric and me.

Erick (01:09:19):
Accepting all gifts for sure.

Jason (01:09:22):
But it's that time.

Jeff (01:09:24):
It's that time.

Jason (01:09:25):
I like saying this it's actually a cue for me, but it's
that time.
It's that time.
I like saying this it'sactually a cue for me, that way,
I know, but it's that time forTrack of the Week, and Jeff has
something for us cooked up today.
Welcome back again, brother,missed you.
Let us know.
Likewise, what was yourselection this week?

(01:09:46):
Yeah, what drove it?
Yeah, what's up?
What is it so we don't?

Jeff (01:09:50):
know we've had a couple comments and it's probably
rightfully so that we haven't.
Really we don't really dig invery much to the to those.
You know, dudes, that uh aretrading paint on the oval tracks
and oval.
You know the oval courses andthere's a lot of them out there.
You know like now you think ofnascar indycar there's a lot of
stuff out there.
So, yeah, I figured I'd startthe first oval track for race of

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the week.
And if you're going to pick anoval track for race of the week,
you got to start with numerouno, daytona international
speedway.
So, without further ado, I'mgonna dig into uh, daytona.
Um, I don't know if a lot ofpeople know this.
Uh, I've actually been to thetrack when I was a kid.
Uh, my parents brought me there.
It was super cool, um, but itdidn't wasn't always where it

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was.
It was actually no kidding onthe beach, like they raced on
the sand.
That's where the track started.
How Daytona speed and all thisthing happened.
It was like just a handful ofmiles away from where the track
is to um, to the beach, where itreally really was.
So, um, I'm gonna show a?
Um, just the overhead track ofthe current setup, and you'd be

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surprised like this track, asyou see here, hasn't changed
since, um, like really the 50s,the 60s, uh, with over, like I
mean, obviously you're not gonna, you know it's as you know,
I'll get into it here.
So, but before so I do want tocover a couple stories and
history over the course.
On the beach it was called theordman Beach and Road Course.

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It was a motorsport track thatwas instrumental in the
foundation of the NationalAssociation for Stock Car Auto
Racing, nascar.
It originally became famouswith a location and on that
beach 15 world land speedrecords were set.
I was reading another storythere was a dude that went 202

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miles an hour on the beach.
That's wild on the sand.
On the sand, like they didn'tput pavement on there, it was
sand, so uh you know how bumpythat must have been, oh my god
right.
so, um, the lap length, uh, inthe early events were 3.2 miles.
It was eventually lengthlengthened to 4.2 in the late

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40s.
So here's where we get into theactual racing of it.
So Daytona Beach officialsasked the local racer, sig
Huggendale, to organize andpromote an automobile race along
the 3.2 mile course.
The city posted $5,000 purse.
The city posted $5,000 purse.
The ticket takers arrived tothe race day on March 8th to

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find thousands of fans alreadyat the track, lost the
opportunity to sell them aticket.
The Sandy turns becamevirtually impossible to pass,
which caused numerous scoringdisputes and technical protests.
The event was stopped after 75of the 78 laps.
Why they didn't just do thelast couple, I don't know, I
know.
Wow.
So Mark Milton was declared thewinner of the 78 laps.
Why they didn't just?

Jason (01:12:46):
do the last couple?
I don't know, I know Wow.

Jeff (01:12:46):
That's funny.
Mark Milton was declared thewinner by the AAA.
The Carnation Body in thesecond place Protested, didn't
win, and this guy, williamFrance, finished fifth.
The city lost a reported of$22,000.
In 2016 dollars, it was justunder half a million dollars,

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and the city has not promoted aDaytona 500 race since.
It's probably because theydon't need to now, right, um,
yeah.
So here's a super interestingstory about that race.
Uh, this guy named Lloyd seeleyfinished fourth in that race in
1941.
After his car rolled twice, gotback on the track and finished

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fourth, right.
So this is where, like nascar,and he rolled and the solve fits
perfect ready.
He returned later that year toactually win a race at that at
the track later in the year.
But a couple years later he waskilled by a family member in a
dispute over the family'smoonshine business.

Erick (01:13:45):
Oh my god, dude, if that's not like the guy rolls on
track, nascar is in the uh theum and he passes that moonshine
business so that's in that, likethe um, like the supposed
history, or like the origin ofnascar, like uh, or like the

(01:14:07):
origin of nascar, like uh was,like uh, whiskey runners or
moonshine runners or whatever.

Jeff (01:14:10):
Yeah, probably those drivers started racing in that
form nascar.

Erick (01:14:11):
I don't know if that's a fake story or what, but that's
so crazy so, um, all right.

Jeff (01:14:18):
So here's uh kind of how, a little bit more how nascar
format formatted.
This gentleman, william france,I spoke to earlier, knew that
promoters need to organize theefforts.
The drivers were frequentlyvictimized by, you know, sketchy
promoters who would leave theevents with all the money before
the drivers got paid.
So a bunch of these promotersmet at this ebony bar in the
streamlined hotel right there ondaytona beach in florida and

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that was the official formationof NASCAR as how we know it, in
February 21st, coming right up1948.
Wow, just interesting.
How.
Actually NASCAR, it's the homeof NASCAR, right?
Um?
So here's another interestingstory.
In the race in 1951, marshallTeague guided his 1951 fabulous

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Hudson Hornet to victory lanefor his first career victory.
He beat Tim flock by one minuteand 14 seconds.
Damn, that's wild.
And now they're winning by likeless than a second, yeah.

Erick (01:15:19):
And if you make it, yeah, if you make it in 1952, teague
made it two in a row with hisHudson.

Jeff (01:15:25):
He gained the lead on lap two.
Listen to this the lap wasshortened by two laps because of
the incoming tide.
Dude, like you don't think ofthat stuff, you're putting on a
huge race.
That's hilarious.
The water's coming.

Jason (01:15:39):
We got to cut it.

Jeff (01:15:40):
Got to cut it short and he won by a minute and 21 seconds.
So get this.
The day earlier they had likeanother race for the weekend,
right?
This guy, tim flock, who camein second, uh, was flagged for
winning that modified race andthe day before the big race but
disqualified for having a woodenroll bar.
Like if you're gonna cheat onsomething like I wouldn't like

(01:16:04):
put a crummy roll bar in.
But hey, listen, this is bro, awooden race.

Jason (01:16:08):
What you brung, yeah exactly how good is that going
to be?

Jeff (01:16:12):
when the thing rolls, it's gonna crack that must have been
some heavy duty freaking maple,so yeah, so 1953 it became
increasingly complicated to runthe race on the beach because of
the urban growth of daytonabeach area.
Hotels were being constructedalong the beach.
This guy, francis, knew that apermanent track needed to be

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built withhold larger crowds asit got bigger and bigger and you
can ultimately see where thisis going.
So william, france wanted thetrack to have the let's talk
about funding, because this iskind of interesting A Texas oil
millionaire, clint Mershon Sr,lent France $600,000.
And this is in the 50s, that'sa lot of cheddar Along with all

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the necessary equipment to buildthe track.
He secured funding fromPepsi-Cola, general Motors
andley uh, hardly.
Edler a second mortgage took amortgage on his house, uh oh man
.
So he wanted to have.
So william france wanted thetrack to have the highest
banking corn turns so they couldgo the fact, so it could be the

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fastest track.
He traveled to ford motorcompany because they had a track
, a high speed track with bankcorners, and ford shared their
engineering design and how theybuilt the track.
Uh, with with um france and hebrought that back to daytona to
build the high banks crews.
So this is kind of how he got.
They built the track becausethis is super interesting.

(01:17:42):
To build, the high banks crewhad to excavate over a million
square yards of soil in thetracks infield because the high
waters in the area, theexcavated holes filled with
water to form what is now knownas Lake Lloyd After one of the
builders.
The lake is stocked with 6,000fish.

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They also conduct speedboatracing in there now.
I don't know if they still doit but probably killed all the
fish yeah right, I know like itdoesn't really mix.
Uh, they mixed the infield with22 tons of lime mortar had to be
brought in binding base, uh.
So they had a problem withasphalt.
This is super interesting.
They couldn't run the steamrollor the, the excuse.

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My life I don't remember whatthey called the, the that runs
over the pavement to push itdown because the, the turns were
so banked.
So he had this great idea that,hey, we're going to put a
bulldozer on top of the turn andwe're going to chain it to the
cement roller.
So what?
The cement roller is going togo forward so it doesn't fall
over.
It's going to be chained to thebulldozer and they're both

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going to go at the same pace allthe way back and forth.
Back and forth.

Jason (01:18:50):
Oh, my God bro.

Jeff (01:18:51):
Dude, you want to talk about some redneck stuff.

Erick (01:18:54):
That's the definition of where there's a will, there's a
way.

Jeff (01:18:57):
But dude, it's how they made Talladega, a number of all
these tracks.

Jason (01:19:02):
See, now I want to go see how, like this process?

Jeff (01:19:07):
um, and they made talladega, charlotte, a number
of these speedways using thislike redneck rinky, dink you
know, like something you'redoing, like middle school, when
you're like, hey, I need to dothis.
Well, if I just chain this tothis thing and nail it on, yeah,
just drag it all the waythrough like damn bro, they make
it happen.
Yeah.
So the first practice to run onthe new track was in February
6th 1959.

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On February 22nd, 42,000 peopleattended the inaugural Daytona
500.
It's finish had started.
The track itself, the track tooka beating, it took a couple.

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The track took a beating whenit opened up and eventually
became the fastest track forstock car racing until Talladega
came along 10 years later.
So it currently has obviouslyNASCAR, but Supercross I was a
big Supercross fan part of theseries goes to daytona after I
think it's the week after thedaytona 500 and they race on the
infield where it says daytona500.
They set up a dirt bike trackright there and they do jumps

(01:20:13):
and stuff super cool.
They also do flat, flat trackand infield go-kart tracks uh,
paved short track, and they'veeven had high school football
games and even soccer matches.
Yeah, oh, I mean, they haveenough grass.
So there's like three rv parksinside this, the track inside

(01:20:33):
the uh oh, yeah, yeah, becausethey camp out there, right yeah
oh, I can't imagine the partyingthat happens out there it's I
would get hammered, oh yeah Ithink it's part of like, it's
like part of your ticket thatyou agree you will get hammered,
probably off bud light orbudweiser or something like that
you know and you're probablygonna go with all the loudness
all day oh man.

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So 41 people have unfortunatelyum been a fatality of on-track
incidents 24 car drivers, 12motorcycles, three go-karts.
Uh, three go-kart drivers andone powerboat racer.
Uh, in one track worker.
The notorious death um, thatwas uh, dale earnhardt.
Uh, you know.
Rest in peace.
Uh was killed on the last lapof the daytona 500 in 2001.

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I know that was that hit up thenascar uh family community like
really hard.
The last lap too.
The last lap.
Yeah, I remember it was crazy.
I'm not a big NASCAR fan, mybrother was.
He was sitting in front of theTV and watching all 500 miles.
It was crazy.
But I remember just sittingthere and I was like saw the
crash but they didn't even focuson it, obviously because it's

(01:21:39):
the last lap.
They got to follow the peoplethat are Well, yeah it's busy,
right?
Yeah, and it wasn't until like acouple hours later that it was
like yo, that guy died, likedied.
He just was like going aroundthe corner, got hit, went up
into the wall.
It was just a real freakaccident.
I think that's where the Hansdevice mod I got.
Like everybody was like allright, enough's enough, we got

(01:22:00):
to do this Hans device.
Don't quote me on that.
I vaguely remember hearingabout it.
Um, but here we go.
So it is included in the videogames.
The first one that I could findwas surprise, surprise daytona
usa, a racing game based aroundthe speed track was released in
1994 for sega model 2 arcadesystem, so you remember going
into like uh, chucky cheese, orwhatever.

(01:22:22):
You have the the yeah in thelittle thing.
Yeah, so that was like, I guess, the first one that had.

Jason (01:22:27):
Yeah.

Jeff (01:22:27):
Yep and Jason, you'll appreciate this.
It was initially released um inJapan for testing.
Uh oh, so that, yeah, that itwas released there first.
Um, that's kind of interesting.

Jason (01:22:38):
Yeah, sega.

Jeff (01:22:39):
Sega is a Japanese Uh yep, so single player and
multiplayer modes is officiallysponsored by the racetrack um
which is cool.
That's cool man yeah, and itwasn't till about 2021 where
playstation 3 and xbox 360 gotit um.
So, yeah, like that's a supercool story, now I want to go

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every time we speak about tracks.

Jason (01:23:04):
man, now I need to go, and this is home soil, bro, this
is, this is our stuff.
Go back to that.
Real quick, jeff.
You want to go back to it?
Yeah, I want to show yousomething.
So it was a great story.
And we always look at tracks.
We usually look at Formula andGT tracks, even though I believe

(01:23:25):
GT cars go on here.
I believe so in a differentsetting, if I'm wrong, please
yeah, the 24-hour Daytona heretoo, right?
Yeah.

Jeff (01:23:35):
So prototypes and whatever the road course in here goes
around, I forget where it goes.
To be honest with you.

Jason (01:23:42):
You can see all the different configurations or
whatever.

Jeff (01:23:47):
Yeah, like endless in here .

Jason (01:23:49):
So you know how notice that there's no go-kart track
how we usually find them.

Jeff (01:23:57):
I wonder if it's somewhere they build it up in here.
Maybe no, I found it.
Zoom out.
Oh, you did.
Where is it?
I was looking for it earliertoday I've been trying to tell
you to do this.

Jason (01:24:05):
Look at the bottom right.
You see that K1 speed.
Those are go-karts.
They're indoor though they'reelectric, so they always have
like a go-kart track.
K1 speed by a gate.
40, bottom left.

Jeff (01:24:19):
Oh bottom, oh yeah, yeah, over here I see, yeah, yeah.

Jason (01:24:23):
Look at the K1.
Yeah, indoor.
Yeah.

Erick (01:24:25):
Look at the K1.

Jeff (01:24:26):
Indoor.
Those are super fun.

Erick (01:24:28):
They got an urban air.

Jeff (01:24:35):
Look at even the RV park has a racetrack outside the gate
.

Jason (01:24:38):
I would rent an RV and just camp out there, bro.

Jeff (01:24:41):
Oh dude, Especially for the Daytona 24.

Jason (01:24:45):
Dude, I'll have a grill out.
I'll have music playing.
Well, you probably can't hearit.
You'd have to have a chain topon.

Erick (01:24:54):
Yeah, oh yeah.

Jeff (01:25:00):
Yeah, that's got to be fun though, man.
Yeah, if I can do this realquick to give you guys a
perspective.

Jason (01:25:05):
Yeah, let's see if that.
Huh, look at that.

Jeff (01:25:09):
To give you a perspective of how banked these things are.
It doesn't do it justice.
I've been here in person.

Jason (01:25:16):
Now we got to redo all the tracks now.

Jeff (01:25:18):
And it's way steeper than that.
It just feels like it's waysteeper.

Erick (01:25:24):
I saw a video of somebody trying to walk the track and
they couldn't climb up theincline.
It was so steep.
Yeah, I was struggling.
They're going all fours to tryto climb up it.
That's how steep that is, butthat's crazy.
So the funny thing is they hadto drive the google car on the
daytona 500 oh that's right ohcan you imagine being the guy in

(01:25:45):
the little Google car drivingalong there?
That's crazy.
You've got that thing pegged.

Jeff (01:25:50):
You're praying dude, I think.
I remember going on the tourand they said you had to go like
87 miles an hour to at leaststay on the track, or you would,
you would slip off yeah.
So yeah it's a cool story, dude, the oval track racing is a lot

(01:26:10):
more fun.
I you know.
Not that I didn't think it wasgonna be fun, but it's totally
different.
Especially nascar and thosetruck driving like the whole
race is rubbing rubbing right itis chaos, especially like a
rookie race.

Jason (01:26:24):
Dude, forget about it what about ranked, any ranked
oval racing yet?

Jeff (01:26:29):
no, I do.
The problem is it's like I getin there and I'm like I just
want to go have fun and do allthe.
Okay, you know I gotta, justbecause, like dude, it's wild.
The I want to race a gen threedude but you need to be like
oval is like 0.3 mile lapsyou're like turning the whole
time.
I was like, oh dude, I'mgetting dizzy here.

Jason (01:26:48):
Rob Markman.
Yeah, bro, it's intense.

Jeff (01:26:51):
Rob Markman.
I just got to do it just to getout of it, so I can have more
races to pick from Rob Markman.
Okay, rob Markman and I need toget a wheel and the shifter.
There's always something,gentlemen, there's always
something.

Jason (01:27:03):
Yeah.

Erick (01:27:04):
Rob Markman Never done Never done, never done.

Jason (01:27:05):
The C word, as Eric put it out the other day the C word.

Erick (01:27:09):
Never complete.
Don't use that word Complete.

Jason (01:27:12):
Yeah, don't confuse us now.
Ha ha, got you thinking, allright, so thank you, jeff.
That concludes the track of theweek.
Another one in the bag.

Jeff (01:27:23):
If you guys have any suggestions for us?

Jason (01:27:26):
it could be oval, nothing wrong, it's a track, track's a
track and technically it's atrack that everything is being
raced there.
So, except for Formula orFormula One, right, I'm pretty
sure Formula.

Jeff (01:27:41):
Yeah, I didn't read anything that was really open
wheel racing besides thego-karts.

Jason (01:27:47):
I wonder if IndyCar race is there.

Jeff (01:27:49):
I got to look and see I'd have to look.
None of the research said that,but it seems like it would be a
great track to run.
Yes, not that I know a wholelot about it.

Jason (01:27:59):
I mean, how scary would it be opening the DRS on the
hill?
That's got to be it.

Jeff (01:28:06):
Yeah.

Jason (01:28:06):
Death wish.
That's probably why they're notthere.
That's probably why they're notthere it makes sense.
Imagine doing a pass on the ohman, yeah, alright, well, that's
gonna be about it, for you know, this week, today, I really
don't have anything else to putout, um, other than the

(01:28:30):
questions that we owe Chad.
So, chad, um, we kind of have asituation here.
You're um, you suggested apiece of software that enables
360 Hertz in iRacing.
See, the issue is that all ourwheelbases already support that.

Jeff (01:28:53):
But if anybody First world problems.

Jason (01:28:55):
Right, first world problems.
I know I was waiting for thatone, so let me get that to
others to see if you guys wantto take a stab at it.
If you have a device thatdoesn't support the full 360
hertz, then you can, probablybecause you know it's really
hard to test, right?
So we got an email from Chad.

(01:29:21):
I'll read it.
He's like I'm not sure if youguys have seen this, but a
clever program has come up witha cool app that opens iRacing
360 hertz to more bases andoffers several options which I
highly appreciate.
Um, you know putting this outand you know sharing with others

(01:29:41):
, because not everybody has asim magic or semi cube or what
have you.
So yeah, kudos to you.
He says, main one being theability to scale FFB detail
higher without having toincrease overall FFB force.
The guy effectively separatedthe detail and maintained force

(01:30:01):
via two channel, ac and DC.
So it's interesting, it's veryinteresting.
I still may take a stab at itand see.
He also added here the mainissue I see now and I suffer
from myself is that SimMagicbases are not functioning
properly with the app, but allother brands I have mentioned

(01:30:22):
usually the usual suspects areworking well, you know the usual
suspects are working well.
The dev says that he will beworking to address the sim magic
issue.
So I guess not all sim magicsupports.
I'm pretty sure the alpha doessupport 360 out the box after
software update.
Um, um, also interesting isthat Dave Tucker from iRacing

(01:30:47):
programming team uh, team hasbeen chatting with the dev and
seems to appreciate thedirection.
Wow, so he actually is talkingto the dev of the iRacing.
So I will leave links to thissoftware.
If you have a base and it's notworking it's not compatible
with 360 hertz on iRacing thismight be worth a go.

(01:31:12):
This might be worth a go andI'll still end up trying it
because I'm hardheaded and I'lltry it anyway.
But as of right now, thesettings on my sim right now are
super dialed in and we've beenracing really hard and very

(01:31:33):
close in the league.
As mentioned before, the GROleague is super competitive, so
tinkering with anything rightnow is kind of a challenge.
But for the users out there, youknow I I will definitely take a
look at the website and thesoftware.
So, chad, um, sorry it tookthis long to get to you.

(01:31:56):
Um, you know, we we mentionedyou in the last episode and I
said you had top priority butupon checking you know we
checked the actual bases thatwe're using.
They all support 360 andiRacing.
So let me know your thoughts.
Let me know your thoughts.
Leave us a comment below.
So that's all I have forannouncements.

(01:32:16):
I'll give it to Eric next tosee what he has Not
announcements.
Sorry, again, I'm out of it.
Roundtable I got you Roundtable, eric's Roundtable.
Let me know what you have, ifanything.

Erick (01:32:32):
Yeah, no, I've got nothing for Roundtable man.
Another good episode.
Man Fun talking about simracing.
Yeah man, this doesn't get old.

Jason (01:32:43):
This is 42 episodes in it's crazy man, this is 100 plus
hours of knowledge foreverybody, and we still got more
.
Trust me, we have way morelined up for you, jeff, sorry.

Jeff (01:33:03):
Sorry man, I just got a quick one.
What?

Jason (01:33:04):
is your round table?
I think I know what it is.
I just got a quick one.
What is your round table?

Jeff (01:33:06):
I think I know what it is.
Netflix came out this past weekand said on 7 March, drive to
Survive, season 7.
Let's go.
Let's go bro, let's go.

Jason (01:33:18):
I'm hearing rumors and birdies around there that
Leclerc was 1.8 seconds fasterthan Hamilton in the Ferrari.
You see this, you see it.
You see it.

Jeff (01:33:32):
The little tear.
No, there ain't no damn tear.
I also heard he wrapped his cararound the telephone pole Well,
maybe not the telephone pole,but he put it into the wall.
And I was like, oh man, that'sa shame, it's just a real shame
I am a lewis hamilton fan.

Jason (01:33:51):
I support him.
You are um great for the sport100 seven time world champion
and for some, even for danieldaniel.
Daniel will tell you he's theeight world.
He is the eighth time they'verefused to accept that last race
.

Jeff (01:34:06):
Uh, hey you don't have to convince me where mikey know
that you know we'll live ininfamy in f1 history.
Yeah, that was, that was bsseason.
Yes, ever though.
Yeah, the fighting we yeah, wewatched that race in your garage
like three years after ithappened.
We watched the whole race, thewhole race yeah and he led the

(01:34:29):
entire race.

Jason (01:34:30):
Man, oh, you know, I don't want to get into it.
Yeah, it, um yeah, gives mestress.
So I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
F1, I'm excited.
The rivalries, the textingbetween drivers.
It's been kind of low.
It's been kind of low, it'sbeen kind of low key.
But when that starts to pick up, I'm telling you I can, russell

(01:34:53):
, I hope you're ready, bro, Ihope you're ready to take.

Jeff (01:34:57):
I mean, it gets so heated, I'm ready to like launch mortar
rounds from my house to yoursand stuff.
Are you going to?

Erick (01:35:05):
do the old school one.
The angle.
Oh, yeah, yeah.

Jeff (01:35:07):
Boom Boom Fire.
For effect Boom boom boom.

Jason (01:35:14):
All right, so that's all you have for a round table, jeff
, yeah.

Jeff (01:35:20):
And oh, drive fast, break late.

Jason (01:35:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, come on , jeff, drive fast-er and break
a little later well, it dependson the car, because send it that
porsche is more about breakinga little earlier.
She's do not want to accept her.
She's a handful huh.

Jeff (01:35:43):
Oh yes, I've.
I've spun a couple laps on her,jeff.

Jason (01:35:48):
I mean Jeff.
Well, you did, you did, jeff.
And Eric just bought thePorsche and he seems to like it,
from what I'm hearing.

Jeff (01:35:57):
You ain't going to drive a harder car.
Man, there she is.

Jason (01:36:03):
I'm telling you, eric, get your license and let's see
what you got in her.
Oh yes, she's a handful.
She can be, especially in therain.
Put that car in the rain, ohhold on Whoa.

Jeff (01:36:19):
Eric Kelly has left the chat.

Erick (01:36:21):
Hey look, I got no shit to talk about driving in the
rain All right, I'm not evengoing to front about that.
No shit to talk about drivingin the rain All right, I'm not
even going to front about that.
The dry, you know, I need to dosome races and see really where
I'm at.
But, just like I said, drove iton Suzuka, drove it on Road
Atlanta.
I loved it, man.
And, like I said, that's a lotof what I drive on GT7.

(01:36:42):
Outside of the weird stuff theythrow in there from week to
week.

Jason (01:36:47):
I can see that, and you're a Porsche guy too.
You like Porsche, you alwayslike Porsche.
So get your license, man.
Let's put it to the test, let'sget you in there.
But anyways, thank you guys.
Again I want to do a big shoutout to the GRL group.
I think you guys, you know,after everything, after the

(01:37:11):
review, I know there's someheated there was, you know, some
heated things being said on thestream.
But the thing is, the aftermathwas positive and the aftermath
is we're all trying to getbetter and that's kind of what
the league is about.
So the amount of support thatwe received there and, uh, neil,

(01:37:33):
um, it was great to finish, youknow, and neil and you know
behind me.
So, neil, if you're watching,you heard it from me and and I'm
sick and I got you.

Jeff (01:37:47):
anyway, he's going to come after me for this.

Jason (01:37:50):
Neil, yeah, yeah, neil's my dude and Neil, you know, we
got to get Neil on this podcast.
We really do.
He doesn't want to, he doesn'twant to, oh no, but we got to
get him in here.
We got to get him in here.
We need to have a discussionwith that guy.
Anyway, awesome community and Iwant you guys to not be scared

(01:38:13):
and go and try it.
I want, because the more wehave in there, the better, the
bigger and the better thingswe'll get, I guess.
But yeah, I'm rumbling,mumbling.
So thank you so much, guysagain, for being here.
Jeff, welcome back, and to allyou viewers and listeners out

(01:38:34):
there, if you have any questions, email the show at
thechicanepodcasts at gmailcom.
Leave a like, comment,subscribe and please have a
great start of your week, thankyou.

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