Hardware & Technical Trying to upgrade PC for Elite

[Krooksbane]

It makes enough sense. I have to save for the video card and VR regardless. However I want to play PC not PS4. The community is mainly PC based.
It’s just that as the price range starts to increase, the more my common sense starts to tell me “don’t spend 3000 dollars for a video game!”
. But damnit, VR is an experience, and it’s one I want to have

 

[Speedcuffs]

It makes enough sense. I have to save for the video card and VR regardless. However I want to play PC not PS4. The community is mainly PC based.
It’s just that as the price range starts to increase, the more my common sense starts to tell me “don’t spend 3000 dollars for a video game!”
. But damnit, VR is an experience, and it’s one I want to have

I hear ya! Built a PC a couple of weeks ago, first time in twenty years.
Just for ED. Plan is, decent-ish PC, then see what happens with GPUs and VR later this year.[yesnod]

 

[Krooksbane]

Thanks for the help guys. Sorry for my lack of knowledge and poor articulation.

 

[Garand1987]

Yes, I meant gigs. It’s windows 7, I’m at work at the moment so I can’t check the finer details of the video card. Regardless, I know it’s not capable of handling VR.
If it’s possible for me to save up for the 1080 video card and be VR unit itself, I’d prefer that.

I wouldn’t bother with a 1080 personally (unless you have the moolah for the ti) a GTX1070ti is in fact a 1080 despite its name. Garab a GTX1070ti SC for way less than a 1080 and you’ll have a card on par, and in some ways better than, a reference 1080.
I’m running a GTX1070ti SC with a Ryzen 5 2600 and 16 gigs of DDR4 @ 3000 and can run an Oculus on Ultra with absolulty zero issues even in stations and high pop areas.
Or, if you got a PSU that’ll handle the power hungry RTX cards, you can grab an RTX2070 for just a scooch more than the 1070ti SC and have a card even more capable. That card is markedly better than a reference 1080, it’s cheaper, and not all that much more than a 1070ti SC (if your rig will power it and keep cool)

 

[Garand1987]

Heck you got $1000 budget you said?
RTX2070 $500
Ryzen 5 2600 $164
Asrock B450 Pro4 Mobo $89
2x8 Corsair DDR4 @3000 Ram $100
EVGA 750w Gold modular PSU $80

That leaves you about $70 for a nifty case (which can be had in that price range) and a couple fans (can always get more later if needed) provided you plan on reusing your current HDD for now (Windows 10 is free btw, just has a water mark on the desktop until you activate)
And periferals.

 

[Garand1987]

And that set up would be WORLDS better than anything you’d buy off the shelf for the same money. Only thing is later on if upgrade to a SSD and wipe your HDD and use that only for mass storage of stuff that doesn’t need to speed. And a few fans.

 

[Garand1987]

And maybe a better CPU cooler than stock later on but honestly for a stock cooler the one it comes with isn’t horrible. But if you keep it on air good coolers are actually pretty reasonably priced.