Help with a VR build

[esmozz]

Hi all,

Was hoping could make use of the expertise on this forum for help with a VR PC.
Just received notification that my Vive has shipped and I've got nothing capable of running it.
I'm not really that knowledgable but have decided on a 6700/1080 combo.

Ive basically started with the OcuK Kinetic VR PC listed on the site and added a 500 GB SSD, 2 TB mechanical drive, 6700K and 16BG of memory.

Case Kolink Satellite Micro-ATX Cube Case - Black

Processor Intel Core i7-6700 3.40GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151

Memory Kingston Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX424C15FB2K2/1

Graphics Card OcUK GeForce GTX 980Ti "Super OC Reference Design" 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Primary Solid State Drive / Hard Drive Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU)

Secondary Mechanical Hard Drive Seagate 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST2000DM001)

Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)


So the questions I have are:

The configurator doesn't let you select a 1080 graphics card but is there any reason you can't fit one in that case?

The motherboard is a Asus H110M-A (Socket 1151) Micro ATX Motherboard, I'm assuming because its a VR ready PC I won't have problems with USB ports etc?

And of course if anybody has any better suggestions for a VR build I'm all ears. The only things are that I'd like the case to be as small as possible, I'm not bothered by fan noise and I probably won't overclock it as I don't know how to (yet).
Oh, and around about the £1500 mark.

Many thanks in advance for anyone taking the time to reply,

Cheers (sorry for the wall of text)

 

[esmozz]

Awesome, appreciate the replies.

I can't find out how long the 1080 card is but I suppose I can call overclockers to check if they can get one to fit. Will post back here with the info in case its useful to anyone else.

I must admit I hadn't considered cooling the CPU, according the spec its just a standard intel cooler. I think i will upgrade this - good point.

If the difference between the K and non K is just overclocking capability then I'm okay with that - I assume with the small case overclocking might be problematic.

I think I want to go with the Nvidia card, but only because I like the sound of this single pass rendering for VR - I hope that this will give a fairly substantial performance gain once dev's start to use it.

Thanks.