i5 6600K vs i7 7700K results for VR.

[dape]

I had no idea that I would get a Rift when I assembled my Rig in summer 2016. I didn't even know the Rift or Vive existed. I got a Z170 board and an i5 6600K and was really happy. Then VR came along and I replaced my 980 for a 1080TI again being a happy chap

I was tweaking settings and noticed that my 6600K (4.7GHZ OC) reached 100% utilization playing ED in VR. I use HWiNFO to monitor all cores.

Long story short, I swapped my 6600k for a 7700k delidded it and applied thermal grizzly liquid metal between die and Heatspreader. It is now running stable at 4.9GHz@1.35V with an aircooler.

Was it worth it? I can definitely see an improvement in game. Especially in stations with many other Cmdrs around and even more in Haz Rez with many npc's. It is not a huge improvement but noticable. The highest total CPU usage was 65% and the highest single core 85%
I do have a feeling overall tracking smoothness is better as well but that could also be a placebo effect.



TL;DR It seems ED + VR does run better on an i7 but differences are not huge

 

[TorTorden_VR]

Definitely worth having a solid CPU for vr, might be coincidence or just plain tailoring but the i7 seem to work the best compared with Ryzen or Intel x series.

And anyone who says CPU doesn't matter have no clue just because something where true for games in 2012-2014 doesn't meant that is the true for games in 2017 and in vr.
Many game engines make excellent use these days of multithreaded systems and this will only become more and more prevalent with new titles.

And elite is quite CPU intensive. The p2p networking, npc AI and physics all tax the CPU quite a bit.
So especially RES sites in wings that happen to combine all three.

I had almost as much response in performance when I upgraded from 16gb of 1600mhz RAM to 16gb 2400 mhz funnily enough.
If I forget to enable xmp profile in bios they revert to 1200mhz and station environments become nearly unplayable.

 

[vic]

I agree !
CPU is VERY important to ED especially in VR! I have a GTX1080 and saw almost no improvement from my old GTX970....that is until I changed my CPU.