....what should I look for in terms of 'best' components?
I currently run a Samsung Odyssey on my i7 6700k with 16Gb RAM DDR4 2400Mhz and a GeForce GTX 1070. It's fine, infact it's not it's amazing (....but that's as much about ED in VR and the fact I haven't experienced it on a better system,) but I'm looking to a new PC either this summer or perhaps in the autumn and have decided it's time I spent some money on something that can really run VR well. I've got a budget of around £3500 but I'd go above that if it would get me an appreciable difference from what I could get at my initial budget.
I'm a photographer and only use my PC for editing/processing via Lightroom and Photoshop, the usual web browsing and then gaming so other than getting a much larger SSD than on my current system (a mere 128Gb ) and a larger HD I'm at a loss as to what would benefit me the most. I know virtually nothing about the best manufacturers, the best motherboards, the difference in brands of GPUs etc etc. Some ability for future upgrade would be very useful as I tend to make do with what I have for quite a while and just upgrade a few bits if needed.
Perhaps I could ask a question or two first but I'm open to advice of all sorts.
1. How much realistic difference would running two SLI GPU's make to Elite in VR? Does one GTX 2080 Ti do a better job than two 1070s in SLI (I'd be looking to buy the upper echelon of gpu although the Titan(?) may be more than I'm willing to currently spend.....though perhaps I'm looking at this in the wrong way?)
Which leads me to question 2.
2. What components are the ones that you really should be spending big on and which areas have a little more give?
3. RAM speed - is there a DDR5? How much value is there in 3600MHz over 2400MHz e.g. Would you go 128GB DDR4 2400MHz or 64Gb of DDR4 3600MHz....or is that not how it works
I haven't even touched on CPUs yet but I'm guessing we're straight in with an i9 of some sort?
Am I missing some obvious questions, asking the wrong questions and in danger of not looking for the right things?
I had a look at UK Gaming Computers website, where I got my current set up several years back, and have looked at 'Extreme' PC's around my budget and then looked at specc'ing them but I simply don't know which components offer the best value with regard to VR much beyond a meaty as hell GPU. I was looking at this one and wondering about changes I could make when I realised I need to ask some people who know they're stuff, and definitely Elite VR stuff, first.
Thanks......and looks ashamedly towards the floor with his lack of IT skills
I currently run a Samsung Odyssey on my i7 6700k with 16Gb RAM DDR4 2400Mhz and a GeForce GTX 1070. It's fine, infact it's not it's amazing (....but that's as much about ED in VR and the fact I haven't experienced it on a better system,) but I'm looking to a new PC either this summer or perhaps in the autumn and have decided it's time I spent some money on something that can really run VR well. I've got a budget of around £3500 but I'd go above that if it would get me an appreciable difference from what I could get at my initial budget.
I'm a photographer and only use my PC for editing/processing via Lightroom and Photoshop, the usual web browsing and then gaming so other than getting a much larger SSD than on my current system (a mere 128Gb ) and a larger HD I'm at a loss as to what would benefit me the most. I know virtually nothing about the best manufacturers, the best motherboards, the difference in brands of GPUs etc etc. Some ability for future upgrade would be very useful as I tend to make do with what I have for quite a while and just upgrade a few bits if needed.
Perhaps I could ask a question or two first but I'm open to advice of all sorts.
1. How much realistic difference would running two SLI GPU's make to Elite in VR? Does one GTX 2080 Ti do a better job than two 1070s in SLI (I'd be looking to buy the upper echelon of gpu although the Titan(?) may be more than I'm willing to currently spend.....though perhaps I'm looking at this in the wrong way?)
Which leads me to question 2.
2. What components are the ones that you really should be spending big on and which areas have a little more give?
3. RAM speed - is there a DDR5? How much value is there in 3600MHz over 2400MHz e.g. Would you go 128GB DDR4 2400MHz or 64Gb of DDR4 3600MHz....or is that not how it works
I haven't even touched on CPUs yet but I'm guessing we're straight in with an i9 of some sort?
Am I missing some obvious questions, asking the wrong questions and in danger of not looking for the right things?
I had a look at UK Gaming Computers website, where I got my current set up several years back, and have looked at 'Extreme' PC's around my budget and then looked at specc'ing them but I simply don't know which components offer the best value with regard to VR much beyond a meaty as hell GPU. I was looking at this one and wondering about changes I could make when I realised I need to ask some people who know they're stuff, and definitely Elite VR stuff, first.
Thanks......and looks ashamedly towards the floor with his lack of IT skills
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