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This board will melt no matter who is hired..

Great buy on the both MicroCenter bundles!

I play mostly Assetto Corsa Competizione, Le Mans Ultimate, and Assetto Corsa (tons of free mods).

I never got into WRC, or AMS2 which has made a bit of a comeback.

What sim you want depends on what style racing you want to do.. I would look up the titles and watch youtube vids of the game play to see what sparks your interest.

I agree with what Josh said.. Building is pretty easy and there are TONS of youtube and twitch vids for How To on every level of build.

Use PC Part Picker to find your parts and then share your list here and we can make suggestions on parts.

PC Partpicker

From my experience of parts:

AMD processor AM5 Platform (7600x or better)
MSI motherboard: I really like the MAG B650 Tomahawk
DDR5 600Mhz 32Gb Ram. I really like Corsair Vengeance
WD or Samsung M.2 SSD at least 1TB
Corsair Power Supply (PC part picker will tell you what size you need)
Thermallight CPU Coolers
Fractal Design or NZXT Mid Tower Case
MX6 Thermal Paste
120mm case fans (Antec makes a 5 pack of RGB fans for $40)
Plenty of cheap options for Windows 11

Now a GPU: Here is where the money gets spent - if you are going to stream, get an Nvidia, if not, get a Radeon.

Use the PC bottleneck calculator I linked earlier and set the parameters to "Graphic Card Intense Task"
Set your monitor resolution and the CPU you are comfortable buying
Then start selecting Graphic Cards and run the calculator.. Keep changing cards until you find one you can afford that will match your CPU/Monitor resolutions that stays within the 5% tolerance. Buy that card.


OR, look up Zach's Tech Turf and/or iBuypower and buy something built.

Hope this helps!

First off, thanks for all the replies.

To answer a few of the questions:

1. Yesterday afternoon I did additional research and am realizing this may be more than I can tackle on my own. I'm a very low level IT guy and am realizing I may need to hire an actual IT pro to help facilitate my needs on the VMs.

2. The actual VMs will be used for Mineral/Surface Title research (landmen and abstractors). As for security or full access to my network, the VM will allow be to control who/what is accessed on my network vs having to map a network drive on their person pc.. Or am I flawed in this as well?

3. Not sure what HBA is or why I didn't mention it?? Will look into it.

4. An IT buddy mention provisioning desktops through Azure but again, this went a bit beyond my IT understanding will need to research it more. My understanding is it would be better to build VMs from a box than through Azure.

5. What I did conclude is I can build a "server" with a Xeon W5 16 Core Processor, DDR5 Ram, SSDs for VMs a M.2 for main pc boot, all in a regular pc workstation environment for ~$550 per vm. This allows me to scale up to 10vm from one box..

6. I will do some research on Proxmox and keep doing appropriate research before pulling the trigger.

Again, thanks for the feedback and not making me feel too stupid about doing this!

I once ate at a Buffalo Wild Wings, could have been me!

(Am I doing this right?)

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I was simply saying that I don’t understand why someone would go to a place that has built a business around brewing good beer and not getting beer. Why not just go to any other place?

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Maybe they know the owners, maybe they were meeting friends there, maybe they like the food, maybe there are a 100 reasons they went but didn't order a beer..

Grown people complaining on the internet about what other people do is a pandemic in this country.

Alpine should ban Ocon for a couple of races to take his ego down a few notches. He has a horrible attitude on and off the track.

just sent an email

I race mainly GT3 in Assetto Corsa Competizione, Mazda MX5 Cup in Assetto Corsa, and WEC racing in LeMans Ultimate.

I tried racing F1 but my reflexes are too slow..

Below is pic of my rig:

If you open task manager, is the HDD running at 100%?

This is a known windows 10/11 issue for a non SSD or M2 drive. Will make the pc run very very slow.

If this is the case, I would look to replce the HDD with an SSD.