Buying a new PC for oculus, suggestion pls

[JerryLove]

Unless you do some very specific things, there is generally no benefit having 32Gb over 16Gb.

Running heaps of VM's from RAMdrives is one of them. Gaming is not.

Dunno. StarCitizen + 4 tabs in Chrome has me at 8.8. 30 tabs is much more my normal number of tabs.

Sometimes I multitask with Photoshop and Lightroom (hey: it can get boring on long travels in ED).

Its not up to me nor anyone else to tell someone what's worth their money; but I notice I'm not the only one with 32GB.

 

[Asp Explorer]

Its not up to me nor anyone else to tell someone what's worth their money; but I notice I'm not the only one with 32GB.

32Gb isn't enough for me sometimes. Ideally I'd like 128Gb+ so I don't have to keep swapping images. Then again, 640Kb ought to be enough for everybody

 

[bloom691]

A word of caution....

I bought a custom gaming rig for Elite. I choose a 6700K and an 980ti (MSI, water-cooled). Whole system cost close to $3,000 - I spared almost no expense!

Rift worked great for about 6 month. FPS always >75, no stutter or judder at all, with settings close to maxed-out. Then the Oculus Runtime updated and I had horrible judder. I worked with Oculus directly (and had amazing support from them!) for about two months before they concluded it was a hardware fault.

At this point I gave-up and kept playing, even with judder, which is horrible. Then about two weeks ago it all changed! Perfect FPS! No judder, I can play with ULTRA with no problem. I have no idea what changed - Elite? Rift? Something in my OS?

So my word of caution is to be patient, and be aware that buying the "ideal" hardware may not give you the gaming experience you are looking for!

 

[Chaz]

So my word of caution is to be patient, and be aware that buying the "ideal" hardware may not give you the gaming experience you are looking for!

Wise words indeed!

My mate bought a 1080 to replace his 970 to use with his Vive thinking it'd be a magic bullet for all of his VR performance problems. Whilst it certainly has improved some games it's not been a cure all and he still experiences problems with some games. Now of course he's thinking of upgrading his processor which currently is still an old i5. Except that'll mean a new motherboard too.

However, like you say, if the issue is with the software, as it is with so many of these early access VR games, then even the best machine in the world is not going to help.

 

[JerryLove]

Wise words indeed!

My mate bought a 1080 to replace his 970 to use with his Vive thinking it'd be a magic bullet for all of his VR performance problems. Whilst it certainly has improved some games it's not been a cure all and he still experiences problems with some games. Now of course he's thinking of upgrading his processor which currently is still an old i5. Except that'll mean a new motherboard too.

I went from a 2500k to a 6700k... processor upgrades aren't as significant as one might think.

What I really need is ED to fix software issues in the VR support (including lack of support for multiprojection)

 

[nopot]

Wow, finally got it all with evga gtx 1080, I know that move was really needed to get the best of CV1, high graphic with smooth fps, thanks everyone for all advices. Still need to overclock memory, cpu and gpu, but no hurry for now. If only I didn't stop smoking weed 10 years ago.

 

[Beavis Tingleball]

as far as manufacturing and build quality goes, there is no brand better than MSI. evga is a not too far second but MSI just builds better. this comes from my experience after 15 years of custom PC building. I still have a running Athlon X2 fx-62 on an msi nforce 570 K9n sli platinum board with msi VGA.. that board and chip are over 12 years old.

 

[JerryLove]

How many thousand have you built and tracked the outcome of... you know, to get statistically significant values?

 

[Beavis Tingleball]

800,000...