November 7, 2014 at 1:05 pm
Hi all I make spitfire flight sim cockpits and wanted to know how I go about the electronic side of things. Can anyone tell me the type of computer I would need to run 3 screens plus I lower screen with instruments as well as pedals, throttle and control column? thanks in advance
By: Arabella-Cox - 10th November 2014 at 19:56
Hi all I make spitfire flight sim cockpits and wanted to know how I go about the electronic side of things. Can anyone tell me the type of computer I would need to run 3 screens plus I lower screen with instruments as well as pedals, throttle and control column? thanks in advance
What simulator program are you intending to use?
Anyway, you can look on You Tube. There are many videos of various levels of home simulators and how to build them.
I hope this helps.
By: hampden98 - 9th November 2014 at 09:22
To run four screens two graphics cards will suffice. One for the single display and one for a tripple head to go http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/displayport/.
CH products http://www.chproducts.com/13-28464-Home.php or Saitek http://www.saitek.com/ have everything you need to make a cockpit.
I have CH products pedals. Saitek Yoke and x 2 Throttle Quadrants as well as the Saitek Switch Panel all running from a standard (but beefy) PC.
My PC specs are Win 7 64 bit i7 3.8ghz quad core with 8 gb ram. Nvidia 580 graphics cards. 2 x 500 gb solid state discs.
Are you going to run FSX? You might like to check out PrePar 3D.
I also use Track IR.
By: TonyT - 8th November 2014 at 21:46
These links may help
http://www.cockpitbuilders.com/community/index.php
http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/forumdisplay.php?12-Cockpit-Builders
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/forums/81/1
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=flight%20sim%20builder%20forum&newwindow=1&gws_rd=ssl
Good luck 🙂
By: TonyT - 8th November 2014 at 21:43
First of I do not know, there are some dedicated sim sites about, however, my PC has a Asus GTX 760 graphics card in it, that has three outputs on it, HDMI and the usual, and it can run three screens at once. I don’t know if it helps.