Terry's Modular Man-Cave. Race & Flight Simpit, 3x 27" Screens, G25, X52 Pro

[thagerty]

This is an update to my old mancave at my old house at this link that shows more of the build process:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=94941.0

My space is now referred to as The Modular Man-Cave.

The watching movies setup. The simpit is off camera on the left side of the room.



The triple screen "desk" I made out of pre-made shelf board. It's the closest I could find that matched the simpit. It's on casters so I can just roll it anywhere I want. When I don't want to use my simpit I can just roll it in front of my couch for FPS's and other games!



Using the simpit with my 61" LED 3D DLP TV, like I did before.



Using the simpit with the triple screen desk in front of the TV to make use of the 7.1 sound.



Using the simpit with the desk on the side of the room while the TV can be used to watch a movie.




I haven't had much time to play yet, but I'm loving it so far. NVIDIA surround using one single GTX 670 video card has been working excellent for all racing and flight sim games so far as well as FPS's!

I've put off getting 3 screens before because i didn't want to go the SLI route and I have my own reasons for not going with ATI Eyefinity. (3D being one of them). NVIDIA finally got it right!

With this Modular Man-Cave I get the best of all setups within a low budget!

I have an updated extensive video tour of the setup at my new house!

[jmike]

 

Awesome setup! How heavy is the cockpit/seat to move over? Also and most importantly, got any building plans pics of that seat?

 

[shponglefan]

That's a pretty sweet looking man cave!  Good job.

OOC, why is the subwoofer placed where it is?

[SpaceHedgehog]

Welcome ... from a fellow TWIP'er 

[thagerty]

It's not really heavy to roll the simpit around, the casters make it pretty easy.

I've had the sub woofer at different locations....front corners of the room, center front,etc...  I found that the center rear behind my couch works really well. Also keep in mind that I have two 12" sub woofers in the front speakers as well!  Luckily it also gave me the room I needed to move things around as i need to...

This is the closest  I have to a prjoect layout at this link...

http://www.thewayiplay.com/mainforum/index.php?topic=981.30