Logitech G27 USB Racing Wheel for PC

I had originally used the Thrustmaster Ferrari GT Experience 3-1 wheel for games like Need for Speed (various titles under this) and then iRacing.com. After purchasing iRacing.com's product, I found that such a wheel was not up to the standards of the simulated race experience. So, I saved up and purchased the Logitech G27 Racing Wheel. Let me tell you this, the difference is AMAZING! There are tons of great things I can say about this, but I will spare you that for now and get straight to what you will want to know - the cons.Logitech does not con you with this product, but there are a few pitfalls. Straight away, you will have to 4 chords to manage. They could have put it all into 2, but they gave us 4. But once you work out a system, or get one of those nice wire management foam/plastic shells you're good. The other pitfall is that you might want to work out your arms and shoulders some before getting this! It only can put out a max of 3NM of torque, but trust me those 3NM of torque will tire you out quick if you're not used to such harsh reality. In real life driving wheels can be subject up to and beyond 10NM of torque! (that's more than enough to break fingers and possibly arms, if not injure you!), but you're safe with this product from any injury as long as you keep ergonomics in mind. Also, at first, with such torque at the wheel you will want to make sure to take frequent breaks. You won't believe how fast this wheel (when set to realistic specs of 102% overall effect in the window's control interface, and the default of 16FFB in iRacing.com's settings if you're getting it for that) can tire you out!*****BUT*****Here's the great things about this product from logitech!This wheel is the closest you're going to get to the real thing for under 300 bucks! Amazon provides a great discount here.Once this is set up, you can set it and forget it (for a while, EVERY wheel needs recalibration here and there, even the best).It's the most solid build you'll find. It's even quieter with helical cut gears!You get 3! YES 3! Pedals. Clutch!, break and throttle. Does it get better than this in simulated racing? I mean it's pedals are covered in REAL STEEL! The wheel's frame seems to be steel too! The pedals' base even comes with 3 ways to keep it from moving, hard mounting (screwing into place on say something like a Playseat, can I advertise for them enough?), rubber feet for hardwood floors, and even spikes at the back than can be pulled down to keep it from moving AT ALL on carpet! (And such great design there! It won't move, nor damage your carpet/rug!) Can I say enough about these pedals? I think not!It's accessability is rated 4 just for the amount of chords and the time you'll have to take to set it up in windows and in your various games/sims (which shouldn't take THAT long ;) ).It's comfort is second to none! It's genuine leather they wrapped it in! (though, it has a lot of torque, you get used to it once it's set to you're preference and you give it time)Speed of this wheel is incredible... it can't be turned faster than real life would allow, unless you turn down/off the forced feedback (FFB). With FFB turned off, it's like driving a Cadillac, or so I've heard.You can't get much more real, nor can you get much of a better feel than this... real steering wheels are bigger, but you don't need it really.It's immersion is second only to the real thing.Ergonomics... GREAT!, IF AND ONLY IF you keep in mind where you are supposed to keep your hands and take frequent breaks! Otherwise you could injure yourself. This is professional level simulation here. But if you keep correct positions and breaks in mind, this wheel will not injure you. It's like anything else out there.Cable management could have been better, but they do give you some stuff to help out with the 4 chords they give you. 4 groves to places them in so they don't get pinched and before that a place to wrap excess cable around.Overall, this is the best product you can get for your money (unless that elusive G29 ever comes out, ROFLMAO). There are more expensive products out there, but you will pay much more for them! You can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for a real simulator, tens of thousands on the lesser equivalent that doesn't move but will give you feedback in the pants in the form of knocks and vibrations and good sound/visuals, 500 USD or more for over-the-top reproductions of this wheel, or you can get the original! The logitech G27 Racing Wheel for the pc is THE BEST wheel you will ever get, without paying too much. Some would say 250 USD is too much, but trust me. You get everything you pay for, and THEN SOME!**Oh, and one last thing, make sure if you're doing your sim racing on a desk (as opposed to the Playseat also available on Amazon), that the desk isn't a cheapie! This thing will have your desk and everything on it bouncing (and possibly breaking), including that expensive HD monitor you payed a lot more for ;). (But don't worry too much here, I haven't bolted anything down and have yet to have anything break or fall) Otherwise I'd recommend bolting down everything that's loose, or at the very least duct-taping it all down! I'm being serious here, that wheel has a ton of force in it. When Logitech call it "force feedback" they mean it has FORCE! 3NM of torque, that is a TON of force for a gaming/siming race wheel!**

If you have been playing racing games with a keyboard like myself, hold on to your shorts!!! This G27 propels your fun factor into a completely different arena!!. One word of warning, the more powerful and up to date your rig the better!So, I Just built a new rig after coming off an older I7 930 with 2 GTX 760s in SLI. For the last 3 years I've done a lot of gaming but always used a keyboard. At the prompting of an online friend I purchased the G27.With my older I7 930 I set up the G27 and it just didn't work all that well. Initially I was disappointed and for a while just boxed it all up and put it in the attic. I have so much experience using the keyboard it was just easy to go back to it. I could go much faster with the keyboard (but keep reading). Later I decided I needed to give it another chance. So, it worked ok with the old I7 930, but nothing to rave about. Seemed like I needed to spend a lot of time with playing with settings as it just didn't perform all that well, but, in certain cases was kinda fun compared to the Keyboard.I have over a 1000 hours playing NFS Most Wanted 2012, and over 1200 hours playing NFS Rivals....all with keyboard driving. So, you get to be pretty good with a keyboard after so many hours. Now I exclusively play Ubisoft's The Crew....wow, what an amazing, gigantic world map they have!!!Well, I just completed building my new rig and I cannot believe how superbly this G27 transformed the game into the best racing fun I have ever experienced. It is all about how well everything, your hardware, works together with the game. So, what do I play and what is in my rig?Anyway, my new rig is:I7 4770KAsRock Z87 Extreme 4 m.b.Corsair H100I cpu cooler2 x GTX 780 SC's in SLI16 gigs 1866 ramEVGA 1200 P2 SuperNova Platinum p.s.Samsung 850 Pro SSD 256 gigand a couple of other SSDs and HDDs.And.....Logitech G27 wheel!!!When I finished building this rig and got all the drivers installed for all the various hardware, and re-downloaded The Crew...the most amazing thing happened.....The G27 worked superbly, better than I could have ever imagined. This is with no profiles set up or tweaking of any kind with the multiple settings.I am blown away how all this works so superbly now. I thought my old I7 930 with the two GTX 760s in SLI was a pretty great rig.....well, this rig in combination with the G27 feels like a $15-25,000 racing simulator. Everything about the game, The Crew, the cars, the handling, the cornering, the feeling of complete control and exceptional feel of the speed of the various cars in game is simply way beyond my expectations.Its obvious to me now that The Crew is designed for a Wheel. There is no way anyone with a keyboard could keep up with the performance of this rig in combination with G27.Maybe down the road I might play with the settings a little, but right now everything seems perfect right off the bat.If you like online Racing games like The Crew....this is the only way to go....a powerful rig and the G27.I bought the G27 brand new and glad I did. Most everything else in my rig I bought used but within warranty so overall the cost was way better than buying it all new.