Quote from Fordman :

@BigPeBe - P&G - Is there online practice server's that I could join in and try?

Gamers Crib is running one public server. But I have never driven there so can't say if you can get proper online racing practice there.

If you feel confident enough that you can complete a 15 min qualy + 30 min race with a grid of 20+ cars with gentleman like maneuvers without it turning in to a crashfest then I'm sure you are welcome to join in for the league. It's a pretty laid back and there are multitude of different skill levels on the grid at the same time.

For some reason there is no sign-up thread for the current season (4) but if you post about it on some of the threads here I'm sure you'll get in.

As someone who spent $1300 on a new gaming PC for AC (and DOTA) and it will do me for years of sim racing. Full grid of AIs and I get like 90FPS with a GTX 760. Spend the money and you will be good for a while. Then GPUs are usually the only thing you'll need to upgrade.

I just upgrade my GPU every 2 or 3 years, almost never with top of the line (780, etc), and eventually when my CPU becomes a bottleneck I upgrade that, plus the motherboard and the memory. I find it spreads out the cost fairly well. CPU upgrades are not needed a lot of the time. I ran my single core AMD for 5 years or more, and I ran my last dual core Intel for almost 5 years. Pretty good shelf life for a ~$400 upgrade (mobo + CPU + memory all at the same time). Since 2001 I've only owned like 4 CPUs.

The #60 GPUs from nVidia for the last few generations have been pretty killer on the price/performance ratio. I got my 560Ti factory OC for like $230 when it came out and it's served me really well so far. The new 760 is really powerful, and should last a good few years as well.