if there's one thing people around the office know me for it's that I wear
driving gloves I don't wear driving gloves anymore but I do like Logitech
and I do like cars so this could be a very interesting
combo this is a thousand dollar racing wheel and a 350 dollar set of pedals
from a company whose last racing wheel was like 300 bucks with both the market
for direct drive Wheels like this has really been going up with fanatex csldd
I think thrustmaster just launched one a couple days ago so it'll be interesting to see how this performs because at the
price point this is a hefty ask but I can't wait to check out what's inside
unlike the thrust master or the fanatec options Logitech is selling this as a
kit so when you get the wheel which I
assume is this thing okay cool cool this is impressive okay the thousand dollar
price point I'm kind of starting to feel it all right
previous generation Logitech wheel it was a good way to get into racing games
but not very well built this by contrast
feels really nice nice buttons these paddles click the paddle David click
click the paddle it feels pretty good but it's not clear
if you're going to be able to buy separate Wheels I imagine because there
is a quick disconnect on the back of here then you can take this on and off
that they will sell other cool branded Wheels that's okay this thing is massive
the nice thing about the fanatec option is it's pretty compact this is a bit of
a chungus 15 pounds
power cable and a chungus power brick 300 watts wow
ah that looks like a table Mount good ah
man these table clamps are always underwhelming this is a thousand dollar
product and it's just like it's a plastic screw and plastic housing I mean
realistically if you're using a wheel like this you probably shouldn't mount it to your desk you probably got some
sort of like a wheel frame or something but this is a little disappointing on
first glance yeah okay cool little cover it's got a
little like ball bearing things to hold it in place
okay it works
it really does work
it feels cheap but it does work in terms of the wheel we got our x y a b left
trigger right trigger since this is the Xbox version there's a PlayStation version they're the same price they do
both work for PC so if you play on PC you're welcome to buy whatever version
you like on the inside there there's four pins those are going to connect to
four little contacts on our quick disconnect it's keyed so you can't put
it in the wrong way so make sure you line that up and then you want to pull
this back hmm
fanatec lets you spin it infinitely there's no stops this one does have
stops but they are both direct drive this does use hall effect sensors so
it's not going to wear down any potentiometers or anything like that and it does feel nice and smooth it does
have their true Force tech which when they describe it to me it's kind of like
it's almost like having a speaker in the steering wheel that gives you these
finer inputs at least on their older Wheels because this one's direct drive
and it's just a big motor I imagine that feedback it's also probably just done by
the motor um we'll have to see how that feels oh I
forgot there's a little OLED display on here wow that is Tiny it's got to be
like this big little OLED display there Ah that's lame on the back of this for
connectivity they just have a bunch of USB a ports like the OG style like USB
2.0 type A ports there's a micro USB
which is lame in 2022 this should be type c at the very least they have made
this a molded cable and you can see that it matches the profile of the inside of
that so once you push this in it's not really going to be affected by a side to
side Force but you could very well you know rip it out this way and these
little prongs on the micro b Port are going to wear down over time now the
type A ports aren't going to be protected from left and right movement
so if you do wire this up man maybe just get put some cable strain reliefs or
something because I can see someone very easily damaging this
uh it's not even like tight fitting like
kind of disappointing on a thousand dollar device hopefully the performance
still lives up to it there's stuff in here
oh this looks promising so far I'm
seeing a lot of metal that's good buying pedals that are plastic and you get a
ton of flex these feel pretty good though this is
350 bucks this feels like a lot better value than
this steering wheel but I mean I guess we'll see the thing I always find with
like racing pedal clutches is they're always super linear it's just
like a lever when in real life your clutch will kind of you'll feel the
point at which it disengages and engages the brake pedal is load cell which is
cool and the gas it's okay for gas to just be a lever because in a real car
that's what it is okay
oh Jesus yeah replacement Springs cool
and look at that replacement brake
um foam I don't know what you call these rubbers brake rubbers see I want to make
the okay all right actually that came out really easily
did I just get it stuck now oh God there
we go okay it's a bit tight you tighten the thing and that's good
oops so when you're pressing the pedal at first you feel the compression of
this soft foam and then you kind of hit a wall which would be this much harder
rubber there's probably a couple different presets they give you like
yeah there you go they give you a chart so you can replace the pieces
A and B and then you're always going to have one of these they're not really
labeled though they are kind of labeled does that look like a label ah man okay
Logitech again colors if the system is colors does that
look like the same brown and you can almost say that that's the yellow maybe
it's these are the natural colors of these materials but make sure that the
color in your manual matches or at the very least dye them so that they look
really different so you can't screw this up okay we can also switch the Springs
yeah okay that one's white so that's the lightest one this one is brown the
clutch pedal has red which is the second heaviest and the gas has yellow which is
the second lightest let me put these on my feet and see how they feel
man playing a racing game without a cockpit
kind of lame do we have room for a cockpit I do they
did a reasonable job with the rubber kind of anti-slide stuff obviously when
you're getting into it you're still gonna be pushing the pedals forward I
think my gas pedal is a little too firm and the clutch is a little too soft
so I might swap those they feel pretty good though
there is a bit of play left and right not only are the pedals themselves
moving but the actual like metal piece that holds them in place kind of the
channel that they're in is also flexing quite a bit I don't know if it's because
the rest of it is plastic what's holding that metal beef in is plastic oh cool
the pedals are adjustable you can slide each pedal around as much as you want
you can also adjust the pedal faces themselves you see that we're using
these holes right now but you could move them over here over here or up there
anywhere you want interesting they are modular which is cool
each petal connects with a little looks like rj11 or maybe RJ9
kind of like a phone jack and then there is our USB which is also
micro USB again
this one I think is less of a problem because there's these nice cable strain
reliefs right here how are you going to screw this up
you're probably not going to but once you plug this other end here
let's let's just demo I don't know if it's the right way if it was type c it
wouldn't matter oh did I get it oh I got it
all right maybe it's not so bad I'm a professional plugger into Port
kind of guy okay I do this for a living okay well let's set it up with the
computer and play some games God
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yeah that's a good amount of torque I like this thing we have a fanatec CSL
dd2 upstairs and I think that thing can do 25 Newton meters but I usually set
the peak around 12. so having your Peak
at around 11 is it's pretty good the interesting thing is they call these
dual clutch pedals like that's the only only car that would have paddles is one
with a dual clutch okay so maybe they're not talking about
a dual clutch transmission they're talking about there are dual
clutch pedals you can rebind them to pretty much anything it looks like
um you can make them even your gas I guess
so because it's a load cell you can actually set the amount of force you apply 100
kilograms there's no way you're going to be doing that without these mounted to a
frame and I don't even think you're going to be doing it even with it mounted to a frame that's
like 120 pounds of force uh so you play
it the right pedal goes fast it's the second pedal wow thanks hey look there's
little bar graphs for them here gas and clutch
super linear clutch I don't know what the other ones are we're playing the new
setup Corsa competition I guess I don't
know I don't speak Italian or whatever that is it has true Force support that's why
we're using it I usually play regular aesthetic corset which we might try
after but for now let's do this okay so I can pick a car
let's do the m6 GT3
ah it's so much easier to use a keyboard
and mouse damn it um they're fine I guess
practice yeah let's do that realism okay
let's try this thing it's just like
you can hear the engine through the wheel it's really weird
sounds terrible yeah it's a little like much sauce honestly
I really don't like the true force it feels awful just the whole
wheel feels like it's just vibrating constantly
it sounds broken oh my God it's not shaking like it's
broken this is so much better oh my God oh my God I don't know why there's a
racing line but whatever this is much better this is much better
oh my God I'm going too fast for this car uh so if
you slow down four turns yeah it's a great idea I should do that okay it
feels way better now that the whole desk and steering wheel isn't shaking like a
cheap toy oh too much spice okay ow see that's
what I mean like there's some there's some serious torque there
it's nice it feels very crisp the force
feedback feels pretty good I really did not like the true Force thing in a set
of Corsa or ACC wow this whole monitor is like shaky this Ikea table is not
built for racing Sim it's a good amount of feedback this is
like as much as I would ever want it's one thing with the fan attack that I
have I'm always like I just want like a little bit more feedback this is a
little bit more oh Jesus
oh my God feels pretty good for a 350 dollar set
of pedals I'm pretty happy with those surprisingly usable on a table despite
the monitor like going all over the place it'll be interesting to see when
there's more more wheel options I mean the stock
wheel feels pretty good the build quality is nice it's got I would say
just the right amount of force feedback I don't know if I'd want any more than
this but for a thousand dollars you got to be pretty in to racing games
to want to spend that much money and that's not including pedals if you look
at the competition the csld with three pedals like this and a wheel is still
less than just the base and the wheel thrustmaster just came out with their
new direct drive base that can do 10 newton meters of torque for around 650
US Dollars it still kind of seems like the CSL DD from fanatec is the one to
buy just because it is so much cheaper this does feel like a really good
experience I don't like true force that much maybe other people do your mileage
may vary but it does perform well it's just the price for a thousand dollars
with a bunch of micro b ports kind of disappointing I don't know I think if I
was buying one of these I'd probably still go with the fanatec csldd with the
Boost pack because then you're pretty much in the same neighborhood in terms
of torque for a lot less money and there's a lot more supported custom
wheels for instance I'm sure Logitech is going to come out with some more but fan
attack has a lot lots and there's already a community behind them building
other custom wheels
this thing
I think it would be an absolute steal for 750 maybe you're worth buying I
think this is just a little too expensive thanks for watching if you like this
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