AC - I don't understand the hype!

[GameBrain.media]

It is a mini-PC, which I use quite a lot for video editing (DaVinci Resolve).

I doubt that will even run the 17 year old game - Race 07 @ 1920x1080 60 FPS with medium quality settings.

Race 07 @ $4 is cheap experiment, or you might want to buy / build a PC for gaming.
- I like messing with new build ideas @ PCPartsPicker.com
- people post builds & cost here - https://pcpartpicker.com/builds/

Tons of good & bad advice on both of those things @ youtube
- https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=build+a+game+PC+2024

 

[GameBrain.media]

HA! I just remembered I have my own Assetto Corsa playlist on youtube!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUtH-x9LjmoiVTG8g5bs7RKcKQRgQm6hb

EDIT: click the CC button in the lower right corner of the youtube video player because my audio was really bad. I learned how to deal with that now & make vids at 4K & use Shotcut video editor (the most boring activity in the world is video editing).

EDIT 2: Here's where I finally jump from GAMER to RACER, next vid is jumping to PRO settings.

EDIT 3: Here's where I finally jump to PRO settings.

 

[Thunderchief2000]

For screen I'm using our old TV, which is Full-HD, which I think is 1920x1080, right? I'm considering buying VR glasses (maybe Meta Quest 3) to improve the experience though.

You will not be able to adequately run a VR headset with that PC. You will need a gaming laptop or a PC with a discrete video card (Nvidia or AMD are the most common types)

 

[trolimago]

Did you get that in writing? Because I think that was misleading to the point of just plain being untrue.

I did yes. Not the end of the world though. I'm happy with the computer otherwise. I guess there is no way you can add anything on top? Like a better graphic card connected by USB-C. Does something like that exist?

 

[RasmusP]

I did yes. Not the end of the world though. I'm happy with the computer otherwise. I guess there is no way you can add anything on top? Like a better graphic card connected by USB-C. Does something like that exist?

That does exist (google e-GPU), but you lose a lot of performance compared to a normal connection on the motherboard and the e-GPU cases cost more than buying a new PC.
It's really only a thing for giving professional laptops some extra power to render stuff, where the company pays for it.

Your Mini-PC has a really good CPU, sadly no real graphics card. Can you tell us the exact model?
Maybe you could do something crazy and put the internals into a normal PC case and then plug in a graphics card.
But since it's a laptop CPU, the motherboard probably doesn't have a GPU slot