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Good day all, with the current price drop on the Oculus ($399) here in the USA, I can't "NOT" stop myself from taking the plunge.
The only thing that is stopping me is my current system. Everything is okay, other than my GFX. I honestly thought about going head first into a whole new system, but was wondering if I could spend the money on a new GFX card now, then upgrade cpu, mem etc in a year or so and transfer over the GFX.
I'm looking to get the best bang for buck on a new GFX card and was wondering if simply swapping that out now would give me the ability to play Oculus/VR without having to buy a whole new system.
Below is my current setup.
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600W Modular High Performance Power Supply
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1 TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s with NCQ 32MB Cache
Crucial 128 GB m4 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s CT128M4SSD2 - Crucial Technology
ASUS LGA 1155 - Z68 - PCIe 3.0 and UEFI BIOS Intel Z68 ATX
Intel Core i5-2500K Processor - Intel
Corsair 16 GB Vengeance Low Profile 1600mhz PC3-12800
Sapphire 11196-00-40G Radeon HD 7950 3GB DDR5 HDMI / DVI-I / Dual Mini DP PCI-Express Graphics Card - SAPPHIRE
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler (RR-212E-20PK-R2)
Any advice is welcomed. No real budget on a new card, but a "mid range" option would be ideal.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
Regards,
Adam.
The only thing that is stopping me is my current system. Everything is okay, other than my GFX. I honestly thought about going head first into a whole new system, but was wondering if I could spend the money on a new GFX card now, then upgrade cpu, mem etc in a year or so and transfer over the GFX.
I'm looking to get the best bang for buck on a new GFX card and was wondering if simply swapping that out now would give me the ability to play Oculus/VR without having to buy a whole new system.
Below is my current setup.
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600W Modular High Performance Power Supply
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1 TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s with NCQ 32MB Cache
Crucial 128 GB m4 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s CT128M4SSD2 - Crucial Technology
ASUS LGA 1155 - Z68 - PCIe 3.0 and UEFI BIOS Intel Z68 ATX
Intel Core i5-2500K Processor - Intel
Corsair 16 GB Vengeance Low Profile 1600mhz PC3-12800
Sapphire 11196-00-40G Radeon HD 7950 3GB DDR5 HDMI / DVI-I / Dual Mini DP PCI-Express Graphics Card - SAPPHIRE
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler (RR-212E-20PK-R2)
Any advice is welcomed. No real budget on a new card, but a "mid range" option would be ideal.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
Regards,
Adam.