Some links on this page are affiliate links — I may earn a commission at no cost to you. Everything in the "what I race on" sections below is hardware I actually own and use.
This is the full setup behind every lap, every stream, and every guide on this site. No sponsored loaners, no spec-sheet reviews — this is the hardware bolted to my rig right now, plus honest notes on why each piece earned its spot.
Force feedback & controls
MOZA R9 Direct Drive Wheelbase
9 N·m of direct drive torque — enough headroom that it never clips on the heaviest braking zones, without the price or desk footprint of the high-end tier. My complete iRacing FFB profile for it is in the R9 settings guide.
Check price on Amazon →MOZA CS V2 Steering Wheel
The round CS-style rim my whole force feedback profile is tuned around — the Pit House Steering Wheel Inertia value (2800) is matched to this exact wheel's mass. Great for GT racing; swap to a formula rim and the inertia preset changes with it.
Check price on Amazon →MOZA CRP2 Load Cell Pedals
A load cell brake means you brake by pressure, not travel — the single biggest consistency upgrade in sim racing. Lives in the same Pit House software as the base, so one app manages the whole control stack.
Check price on Amazon →The PC
One machine does everything: renders iRacing, encodes the stream, and records. Getting that to work on a single PC without dropped frames took real debugging — the full story and the exact OBS settings are in the streaming guide.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8 GB)
Renders iRacing at 1440p high-refresh and NVENC-encodes the live stream on the same chip. The reason my OBS guide exists: sharing one GPU between the sim and the encoder is a solvable problem, but only with the right settings.
Check price on Amazon →AMD Ryzen 7 5700 · 32 GB RAM
8 cores, paired with 32 GB of RAM and wired gigabit ethernet. iRacing is not CPU-hungry by modern standards — this handles a full 60-car grid plus OBS plus overlays without being the bottleneck.
Check price on Amazon →1440p 120 Hz G-SYNC Compatible Monitor
Single screen, high refresh, variable refresh rate — capped at 117 fps so the frame rate never leaves the VRR window. Why I haven't gone VR or triples yet is a whole decision framework: VR vs triples, honestly compared.
Shop 1440p high-refresh on Amazon →Stream extras
WHOOP 4.0 Band
Drives the live heart-rate overlay on my streams over Bluetooth — you can watch my pulse spike into the first chicane at the Nordschleife in real time. Half fitness tracker, half broadcast graphic.
Check price on Amazon →If I were starting from zero today
Not everyone should buy this exact list — the right rig depends on where you are on the ladder. Two honest pointers instead of a shopping spree:
- Not sure sim racing will stick? Start on budget belt/gear-drive gear and upgrade when force feedback — not your racecraft — becomes the limiter. The full tier-by-tier ladder is in the best wheels for iRacing guide.
- Going direct drive? Budget for a rigid mount before the wheelbase itself. A clamped desk will not hold 9 N·m — flex kills the FFB detail you just paid for.
See this rig on track
Every lap on the channel is driven on the exact hardware on this page — race highlights, setup guides, and the mistakes too.
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