iRacing works fine on my i5 laptop (win7 64bit) that has a GeForce 310M
card. That's about as low-end that unshared-memory video can get.

Cheers,

Bob


On Sun, Oct 7, 2012, at 12:12 PM, PICdude wrote:
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> still... I'm not a gamer, but I need to get a PC for setting up a =20
> racing simulator game.  However, I'm out of touch with current PC =20
> hardware, especially graphics cards, sound cards, etc.
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> I'm looking at one of a few racing games, such as LFS.  I expect I'll =20
> go with an i5 processor, perhaps 4 or 8GB RAM, and WinXP, but can any =20
> of you recommend a decent graphics card and sound card for this?  I =20
> understand some mobos come with 5.1 sound on-board nowadays, so =20
> perhaps that enough, but I expect I'd need way more than anything =20
> on-board for graphics.
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> Also, though I'd prefer individual components (no case) so I can mount =20
> directly into the simulator seat/dash, would I be better getting =20
> something COTS/consumer from a chain store, etc?
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> Cheers,
> -Neil.
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