Simagic Neo X Hub review: $199 for the controls, with the rim and the paddles extra

The Simagic Neo X Hub is $199.00 for the middle of a three-part stack, and it is the part that carries every control. A Simagic base goes under it, a rim bolts to the front, a paddle module goes in the back, and the hub holds the 8 customizable RGB buttons, the two seven-way multi-position switches, the two 12-set programmable LED encoders, and the two thumb rotary encoders between them. Its box list runs four lines and none of them is a rim or a paddle, so $199.00 is the price of a part. Simagic’s own name for the shape is in the detail page’s own meta description: “The NEO X is a compact, high-end button hub with versatile inputs, rotary encoders, and a tactile layout for any simracer. DIY your masterpiece wheel.”

Type	Button hub. Controls and the quick release; no rim, no paddles, no base
Controls	"Customizable RGB Buttons 8", "7-way Multi- position Rotary Switch 2", "12-set Programmable LED Encoders 2", and "Thumb Rotary Encoders 2", off the specification table. The marketing block on the same page adds a fifth control the table has no row for, "9 Soft light programmable RGB rev light"
Paddles	None in the box. "UP+ Shifter modules: Separate Purchase Required", and the two modules are options on this listing at $40.00 and $55.00
Rims it takes	Simagic's P-330R and P-325D, in six variants, all six sold as bundles on this listing. No bolt pattern published for the rim side
Quick release	"SIMAGIC QR50 Quick Release" under Accessories, "SIMAGIC QR70 Quick Release" under Optional Accessories. The QR70/QR50 listing sells either half at $79.00 regular
Connectivity	Wireless to a Simagic base: "Supports 2.4G Wi-Fi function", paired by holding two buttons for five seconds. The included USB-C cable goes to a PC to sync the frequency by hand, and the guide says to unplug it before driving
Platforms	Not stated. Simagic names no operating system and no console anywhere on this product's surfaces
Size and weight	189.6 x 109.1 x 153.7mm, "1075g (With Quick Release, No Paddles)"
Material	"Carbon Fiber Composite Material"
Price	$199.00 with no discount against it. $279.00 or $289.00 for Simagic's hub-plus-module-plus-rim bundles, against $309.00 for a complete Neo X wheel
Best for	Simagic base owners who want a rim Simagic does not sell, and anyone who plans to own more than one

Who it’s for

Somebody on a Simagic base who wants to choose the rim, or change it later, without re-buying the controls each time.

Buy it if:

• You want a rim Simagic does not make. This is the part a real-car rim or a third-party round rim bolts to, and the four finished Neo X wheels come with the rim already decided.
• You plan to own more than one rim. The hub is the expensive half and it stays; a second Simagic rim is $89.00 or $99.00 regular after that.
• You want the shifter you actually want. The paddles are a separate module here, single or dual, so the clutch decision is $15.00 rather than a different product.

Not the one if you have no Simagic base and no plan to buy one, since the third-party route needs a MagLink on top and Simagic prices that separately. And not the one if the rim you want is already on a finished Neo X wheel: $309.00 buys the 310G, 330R, or 330T with everything fitted, which is $30.00 over the hub bundle and no assembly.

What it costs to make it steer

Every figure below is the regular US price off that product’s own Simagic listing, read 4 August 2026, with the day’s price beside it where Simagic was discounting.

Product	Regular	On 4 Aug 2026	What it is
Neo X Hub	$199.00	$199.00	The controls, the QR50, no rim, no paddles
Single Paddle Shifter Module	$40.00	$40.00	One pair of paddles
2-Paddle Shifter Module	$55.00	$55.00	Two pairs, so a clutch as well as a shifter
P-330R Round Wheel (leather)	$89.00	$59.00	330mm round rim
P-325D D-Shaped Wheel (leather)	$89.00	$59.00	325mm D-shape rim
MagLink	$19.90	$19.90	The adapter the third-party-base claim rests on
QR70 Half or QR50 Half	$79.00	$49.00	A spare or second quick-release half

So the cheapest steering wheel this hub makes out of separately bought Simagic parts is $328.00 at regular prices, the hub plus the single-paddle module plus a leather rim, and a base is on top of that. Simagic names no base at all on this listing, let alone prices one. For what goes under it, see wheelbases.

Simagic’s own bundles are cheaper than their own contents. The listing sells twelve combination options, hub plus a module plus one of the six rim variants, at $279.00 with the single-paddle module and $289.00 with the two-paddle one. Each combination SKU is composite and names all three parts, so 10205-0001+10708-0036+10701-0004 is the hub, the single module, and the leather P-325D. Against $328.00 for those three boxes at regular prices, the bundle saves $49.00; against $343.00 for the two-paddle version, $54.00. Even against the day’s discounted rim price the bundle wins, $279.00 against $298.00. Buy the parts separately only when the rim you want is not one of Simagic’s two.

That is the opposite sign from Simagic’s other hub. The GT Pro Hub charges $438.00 for the same hub-and-rim idea against $339.00 plus an $89.00 rim, a $10.00 premium rather than a discount, and four of its six rim variants are the same four this listing bundles.

Four finished Neo X wheels, and what they cost instead

Simagic sells the hub with a rim already on it as four separate models, on one listing of their own. The specification table on both Neo X pages is one table for all of them, headed “Product Name: Neo X”, and its Configurations row names the four.

Model	Simagic’s shape word	Rim diameter	Quick-release holes	Regular	On 4 Aug 2026
Neo X-310G	GT Steering Wheel	310mm	50mm x 6-M5	$309.00	$249.00
Neo X-330R	Classic Steering Wheel	330mm	50mm x 6-M5	$309.00	$249.00
Neo X-330T	Rally Steering Wheel	330mm	50mm x 6-M5	$309.00	$249.00
Neo X-350W	Drift Steering Wheel	350mm	70mm x 6-M5	$329.00	$239.00

The diameters and the hole callouts are off Simagic’s own dimension sheet, which draws all four wheels and the hub on one page and prints each wheel’s as “Quick Release Mounting Holes: 50mm x 6-M5” or “70mm x 6-M5”. The 350W is the odd one on three counts at once: it is the only one on a 70mm circle where the other three read 50mm, the only one Simagic prices apart, and the only one whose quick-guide panel has no clutch-calibration section, where the other three carry one. That last reading comes from rendering the quick guides at 150 dpi, because neither of them carries a text layer. Simagic also advertises a spacer for this model and for no other, in the wheel page’s own meta description: “Neo X universal hub, an all-new spacer included for a perfect drift setup.” And its dimension block is the only one of the four with two depth figures, 150mm and 164mm. Simagic never connects those facts to each other, so neither does this page.

The 70mm callout is a live contradiction rather than a spec. Simagic’s own quick-release listing carries one pairing sentence, “QR70 for GT1 series & P-325D & P-330R series , QR50 for other series”, and no Neo X appears in it on either side. The Simagic quick release guide has the full census of which of the 13 wheel and hub listings names which part.

Third-party bases, and what Simagic sells you for it

This is the claim the Neo X is bought for, and the claim and the parts list are on the same page.

What Simagic advertises, under a heading reading “Connects Effortlessly to Third-Party Bases”:

• “Maglink™ as a connection component for open systems Equipped with a quick-release adapter plate.”
• “Supports most mainstream 50mm and 70mm quick-release systems.”
• “Directly connect to your computer for gaming.”

What the same page’s specification table says. Its Optional Accessories row reads “Maglink, Separate Purchase Required, Wheel Rim, SIMAGIC QR70 Quick Release”. So the MagLink the first bullet names is a $19.90 purchase, the QR70 the second bullet implies is a $79.00 one, and neither is in the $199.00 box.

What the quick guide says about the cable. Section 4.2 gives the wireless pairing first, “Press both buttons simultaneously for 5 seconds to activate Auto Pairing Mode.”, and the cable second, as a fallback for when that fails: “If there’s no response when using the auto pairing mode, attach the included USB Type-C cable from the socket at the back of the wheel to the socket on the PC to manually sync the frequency. (Please unplug the cable before driving.)” So the USB-C cable in the box is a setup tool, and the third bullet’s direct-to-computer claim does not rest on it. The same section’s reminder names four Simagic bases and nothing else: “Reminder: When using the wheel with M10, Alpha Mini, Alpha, or Alpha U, you must sync the frequency to ensure proper connection.”

Price the MagLink into any cross-brand plan, and read the Simagic quick release guide before assuming a 50mm circle is enough.

Watch-outs

• Two Simagic surfaces disagree about the controls. The marketing block lists “8 Customizable RtGB buttons、9 Soft light programmable RGB rev light、2 Thumb knob encoders、2 12-Set Programmable LED Encoders、2 Seven-way switches”, and the specification table on the same page has four rows and no rev-light row at all. The four counts they share agree; the nine rev lights appear on one surface only, so treat that number as unconfirmed. “RtGB” is Simagic’s typo.
• One document is filed under the wrong name. The “Guides And Manuals” list on the Neo X detail page offers “Neo X | User Manual”, and the link goes to Single-paddle-shifter-module-User_Guide-EN-2026.4.30.pdf, the paddle module’s guide. There is no Neo X Hub user manual on any Simagic page read here, only a one-page quick guide.
• Three of the five Neo X PDFs have no text in them. Both wheel quick guides and the paddle module’s eight-page guide extract to nothing at all, so a screen reader gets nothing and a search engine indexes nothing. Only the hub’s quick guide and the dimension sheet carry text.
• The two wheel quick guides disagree about the box. One lists six accessories per model including a tweezer, the other lists five without it and words the Allen key differently. The six-item sheet is the newer file and the five-item one is what both product listings link.
• No platform is stated anywhere. No operating system, no console, no logo, on any Neo X surface. Whatever your base does is what you get.
• A part, not a wheel. $199.00 buys neither a rim, a paddle, nor a base. Price the whole stack before the part.

Alternatives to consider

• A complete Neo X wheel: $309.00 for the 310G, 330R, or 330T with the rim and paddles fitted, $30.00 over the hub bundle and no assembly. The one to buy if a 310mm GT, 330mm round, or 330mm rally shape is what you wanted anyway.
• Thrustmaster EVO Racing Hub: $199.99, which is $0.99 over this hub for the same idea in Thrustmaster’s ecosystem. It ships both Thrustmaster quick-release fittings and takes only Thrustmaster’s own three rims, where this one publishes no rim pattern at all.
• Logitech G RS Wheel Hub: $149.99, the cheapest of the hubs this site covers, over the five rims Logitech names for it and locked to Logitech direct-drive bases.
• Fanatec ClubSport Universal Hub V2: ~$370, and the one hub here that publishes a bolt pattern and takes rims its maker does not sell.
• Simagic GT Pro Hub: $339.00, Simagic’s other hub, which takes the same P-330R and P-325D rims plus a P-325C the Neo X listing does not bundle.

Price the base first. Wheelbases covers what goes under this hub, and the Simagic quick release guide covers which Simagic quick release lands where.

Sources

Every Simagic URL below returned HTTP 200 on 4 August 2026, and every quotation, count, and price above was read that day with a browser user agent.

• The hub: Simagic Neo X Hub, whose 15 options are the hub at $199.00, two paddle shifter modules at $40.00 and $55.00, and twelve hub-plus-module-plus-rim bundles at $279.00 and $289.00, and its detail page, which carries the specification table, the marketing blocks, and the four-document “Guides And Manuals” list.
• The wheels: NEO X Series Steering Wheels at $309.00 and $329.00 regular, and its detail page, which renders the same 15-row specification table as the hub’s.
• The rims: P-330R Round Wheel and P-325D D-Shaped Wheel, three variants each at $89.00 or $99.00 regular and $59.00 on the day.
• The parts the third-party claim needs: MagLink at $19.90 and the QR70/QR50 Quick Release at $79.00 regular, $49.00 on the day.
• The documents, under cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0764/6756/8943/files/: the Neo X Hub quick guide, one page and the only Neo X document with sentences in its text layer, and the Neo X dimension sheet, which draws the hub and all four wheels. The Neo X steering wheels quick guide, the four-model quick guide, and the single paddle shifter module guide carry no text at all; the per-model readings above come from rendering the first two at 150 dpi and reading the four panels each holds.
• Simagic’s Steering Wheels collection, which prints “17 products” and whose own products JSON serves 17, two of them the Neo X hub and the Neo X wheels.