The Best Black Friday Deals for Sim Racers

[Paul Jeffrey]

Savings galore on some of the best sim racing equipment are coming our way this Black Friday, find all the deal info here and add your own super finds!

The big day is almost here! November 24th marks one of the biggest shopping days in the world, and this year could well be the perfect time for the discerning sim racer to stock up on some much welcomed extra hardware ahead of the holiday season... Welcome to the RaceDepartment Black Friday deals page, a central place where we will be collating the very best of the best sim racing deals for you to enjoy! Updated throughout Black Friday 2017, we hope by reading on you can find yourself a bargain and have that little treat you promised yourself ahead of the big fat man in a red suite breaking into your home late at night and eating all your food, before leaving wholly uninspiring gifts you can't afford nor have room to store...

Sim Racing Black Friday Deals

Hardware
Next Level Racing Foldable Racing Wheel and Pedal Stand
Thrustmaster VG TS-PC Racer Racing Wheel, Black
Next Level Racing GT Ultimate V2 Complete Simulator Cockpit
Racing Office Chair
Logitech G920
Logitech G29
Logitech Driving Force Shifter
BenQ GL2760H LED TN 27 inch Monitor
Samsung LC27H711QEUXEN 27-Inch Monitor
Acer 34-Inch X34A QHD Curved Monitor
HyperX Cloud Stinger Gaming Headset
Logitech G230 Stereo Gaming Headset
Logitech G933 Artemis Spectrum - Wireless RGB 7.1 Dolby and DTS:X HeadphoneX
Thrustmaster TH8A
Ausdom AH2S Bluetooth Wireless Headphones with Microphone
HyperX Cloud II Gaming Headset
CybertronPC Rhodium GXM7202A Gaming PC
Thrustmaster Ferrari F1 Wheel Add-On
PlayStation VR - Skyrim Bundle
Logitech Z906 5.1 PC Speakers

Games
Gran Turismo Sport
Forza Motorsport 7
Project Cars 2
Motorsport Manager


We hope you find something awesome during the build up to Black Friday 2017!

Remember folks shop smart.. don't end up like this..

Feel free to add your Amazon or Ebay Black Friday Deals below.

 

[Furnace Inferno]

Yeh with ASW but not 90fps, my 980Ti OC'd above a 1070 I have to run mostly low, even a 1080Ti can't run ultra. Not that it matters as my i7 3930k can't hit 90fps with some settings either hence a whole new build is in order.

 

[FeltHat]

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/codemasters-racing-2017

 

[Rob]

What MOBO are you running. I thinking it is a AM3? If so did you think of getting a AM4 B250 with a Ryzen 3 if you are on a budget?

It was mostly price and performance driven, by looking up benchmarks, of the GPU and CPU. But the brand I got was said to have one of the best motherboards out there. iCyber something. They go up to 3000 but I didn't need that much for iracing or R3E.

 

[Rob]

They are all pretty light on system resources the real issue is when you decide it's time VR only to discover your uber PC is suddenly brought to its knees . Nvidia need to hurry up with Volta damnit by the time that thing drops I'll have bought a motion platform and new rig with the money I was saving for a new Volta build!

can't do VR, and prefer triples due to the eye movement realism. But triples will probably be a bigger hog.

 

[Furnace Inferno]

Oh you should be fine then, triples is less of a hit than VR as it's just more pixels whereas as VR is more pixels more so with high PPD and rendering twice which is what hits the CPU even harder.

 

[Rob]

Oh you should be fine then, triples is less of a hit than VR as it's just more pixels whereas as VR is more pixels more so with high PPD and rendering twice which is what hits the CPU even harder.

Maybe I should get one of the blockchain computers for $5,500?

 

[Deleted member 130869]

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/codemasters-racing-2017

Walking away from November with all R3E content and, due to Humble Bundle supporting doctors without frontiers (recipient of 90% of the amount), a reluctant purchase of DiRT Rally and all the bloatware that comes with it.

 

[BenCollins]

I have used the above along with a few others and have to say R3E has been the best value as to quality throughout. Opinions are cheap, but I know I can jump in any car on any track and not have to do anything to setups to enjoy the experience as the stock setups are more than adequate.
I agree with you about iRacing though and I gave up on it after the initial 2 year agreement because of the never ending cost.
However the pay what you use is appealing to me I just don't want to rent it and with R3E you do own the content.
The free content to start is fun and will provide a feel for the FFB which I prefer the most of all. And the Test Drive is unique, as far as I know, to see if a car appeals to you.

I've bought two houses and it was a less complicated price structure than R3E. It puts me right off it.

 

[DND]

It has been raised before and if people are truly confused, I know I was at first and made a few costly mistakes. I will do my best to explain, however if you just don't like the price structure this isn't for you, as it is intended to help not get in a R3E fight.

1. Buy individual cars with a single livery
2. Buy an individual car with all liveries for that car
3. Buy individual livery for a car owned
4. Buy all cars and all liveries of a single group (GT3, P2, etc.)
5. Buy an Experience get a bunch of cars and tracks ADAC, WTCC, etc)
6. Buy a single track
7. Buy a pack of tracks like US, European
8. Buy vRP Virtual Race Points on https://www.raceroomstore.com/
9. You can shop online with any computer and next time you are racing on Steam the game will update accordingly
10. Purchase directly through game/Steam

On future purchases there are discounts that take into consideration previous purchases of similar content, with the exception of 6.

Pay by Credit Card
Pay with vPR

My suggestion is

1. Utilize unlimited demo drive of cars prior to purchase
2. Buy single car with a single livery, I find I stick with a 1 or 2 cars within a class and the livery I buy I never see from the drivers seat.
3. Buy Track Packs
4. Buy vPR for now and the future to get best value
5. Pay with vPR to take advantage of inherent discount

*When you race you see all cars and liveries that are associated with that class regardless of owned or not.

Now if someone can help me how to get Teamspeak and be able to participate in the casual online club events here at RD would be greatly appreciated. I am having no luck with the initial instruction of 'downloading' TS.racedepartment.com I go to the site and try logging in but get an error page that looks like a grocery list.

Edit: Teamspeak instructions updated to address download issue. Thanks RD