racingtech.fr
Two passions, and a price nobody could put a number on.
Two expensive passions
RacingTech was born a few years ago where two passions met: sim racing and PC hardware. They share one rather unromantic trait — they are expensive, and a lot of the gear is bought and sold second-hand.
The benchmark that existed nowhere
Cars have a blue book. A two-year-old graphics card, or a wheelbase released three seasons ago, has nothing. You negotiate blind: the seller still asks the new price, the buyer has no way to tell whether that is expensive — and both walk away feeling cheated. That used-price benchmark simply did not exist. That is the gap this site was built to fill.
The GPU Price Index, built on real data
The GPU Price Index reads listings actually published on Leboncoin, discards outliers and dubious ads, and derives a 60-day median for each model. It also shows how many listings back it up: a benchmark built on three ads is not worth the same as one built on a hundred, and that is worth saying out loud.
And making sense of new prices
New gear is the other half of the problem. A displayed price means nothing until you know where it comes from: is it the usual tariff, a quiet increase, or a genuine deal? So the site tracks new-price history — GPU, CPU, RAM, SSD — and only flags a deal when it truly breaks away from its own past. In between, sim racing builds are priced live: you see what a setup actually costs, today, part by part.
What will not change
The rest fits in one line: a solo project, written in my free time, self-hosted 24/7 on my own server. Free, with no intrusive ads and no paywall — because a price benchmark funded by the people selling is no longer a benchmark. If these tools help you, you can buy me a coffee on Ko-fi ☕