Lucas Andresen 0 Report post Posted November 13, 2013 I am looking to get the mid level Alienware X51 to start with for sim racing. I want to start with iRacing and also play some other new FPS games as well. I can get a good deal on the PC with trading in my old PS3 to them. It has the Intel i5-4440 Processor (6MB Cache, up to 3.30 GHz w/Intel Turbo Boost) processor, 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1600Mhz for memory, 1TB SATA 6Gb/s (7,200RPM) 64MB Cache for the hard drive, and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 645 with 1GB GDDR5 for the video card. I am just wondering if this will be good to start with for iRacing and if it can run triple screens? I would eventually like to run triples with a rig. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Lucas Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lopsided 345 Report post Posted November 13, 2013 Lucas, the 1GB of VRAM will be a hiccup. Most sim racing games I run with triples screens (@5760-1080) use just under to just over 2 GB VRAM. Bailey Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Never_Too_Fast 3 Report post Posted February 27, 2014 If you want, you can build your PC. I would suggest that because you can decide what 'gear' to pust in there. But buying your PC can be good if you choose a powerful Computer with a lot of memory Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
J.A.R.V.I.S. 282 Report post Posted February 27, 2014 I think everything else looks fantastic, but the graphics card is on the limit side... If you can step up to like a GTX 660 or 660 Ti, with at least 2 gigs of v-ram, you should be okay. >Cheers!< J.A.R.V.I.S. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BK_NC 73 Report post Posted February 27, 2014 The original post is a bit old, but in case he is still wondering the GTX 645 doesn't support Nvidia Surround which is their multi-monitor tech. So you can't do triple screen gaming of that card. The GTX 650 is the lowest level card that supports that. It should be ok to run iRacing for one screen. But if you ever want to triple screen, you would need to upgrade. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
racinj 0 Report post Posted February 27, 2014 Everything looks fine except the vid card as many echo'd and since your getting the "better" deal with trading in your PS3? Alienware is a Dell as you might know, have you looked at MainPerformancePC? I would ask them what kind of rig they could build you of that flavor with an ASUS motherboard (for upgrade headroom ect..) and I use to be a big nvidia fan that is until AMD really brought their A game with eye-infinity and by far gives you the best bang for the buck. The extra $$ difference you make in vid card change put that into your motherboard to give you a great base to work and upgrade from. Just my thoughts. Jason Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
