£500 mostly new build to get into VR

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Hi All,

So i have a 10year old PC and it has always got me by and able to play most of the games relevant to my interests.

I want to start venturing into VR but current set up need some investment.

Currently running an i7 920 with a GTX 970.

So with £500+/- to spend what would you recommend for new MB, CPU, RAM.

I've got an SSD and HDD which im going to re-use and i'll probably keep the psu for now as it is a corsair 850 (i think, at work at the mo so cant check), unless i should replace the psu also?

Thanks in advance.
 
bbbearrr said:
Hi All,

So i have a 10year old PC and it has always got me by and able to play most of the games relevant to my interests.

I want to start venturing into VR but current set up need some investment.

Currently running an i7 920 with a GTX 970.

So with £500+/- to spend what would you recommend for new MB, CPU, RAM.

I've got an SSD and HDD which im going to re-use and i'll probably keep the psu for now as it is a corsair 850 (i think, at work at the mo so cant check), unless i should replace the psu also?

Thanks in advance.
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couldnt find video i posted of your chip vs coffelake both at 4ghz but did find 920 vs 8700k >> bottom line is , specially at 1080p you'll see gains!

the jump from 1st gen to 2nd/3rd gen was bigger compared to everything else since , onl coffeelake has introduced something by adding 2 more cores


your GPU is currently solid, you'd get a post going to 1070/70ti but you know you'll be losing a lot more frames due to your CPU

i7 8700 non K boosts to 4.3ghz on all 6 cores 12 threads!

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £502.42 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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ryzen- boards in stock Friday i believe

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £537.47 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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get to 250 posts and you get free delivery if you link your forum account to ocuk account ;)

gaming benchmarks

https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2980-intel-i7-930-revisit-nehalem-benchmarks-2017/page-3
 
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Thanks for all the info Orbitalwash,

I have thought about just getting the rift and seeing how i get on but I figured with most of my system being as old as it is it was a good excuse to bring myself into the modern era lol.

I had previosuly looked at Ryzen 5 2600x. it's 6C/12T but has a base clock and boost clock both higher than the 2700. and would open some budget for a new PSU. Thoughts?
 
dont get me wrong, gtx 1060 will more likely fair better at VR then 970 .. but new gen for nvidia is Q3 - and wondering is V-Ray will make its way in VR games! damn that would be sweet!

least with core upgrade, you'll have a long life line!!!!! gpus, out of date by a year haha. though the CPU race is heating up now, dont think it'll jump as fast as GPU performance
can always slap in Zen2 second hand in a few years time to push life of system :D

with a ryzen 2600, should be able to manually OC 4.1/2ghz on all 6 cores! and with some games being speed bound, will help the CPU stay above your current i7 960 :)

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £513.06 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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550w is plenty, but 650w on sale

prob need an aftermarket cooler £20 for Cryorig AMD one - but see how you get on with stock and XFR 2... then have fun when cash allows nice air cooler and plug 4.1ghz on all cores!

PSU unit is solid! best budget to be honest ( expensive budget haha) , and isn't modular but will do a good job!
 
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