Oculus Rift

Pardoe · 19 Jan 2016 at 23:06

Hi guys just need a bit of advice. I have pre ordered the rift and I ran the system requirements on my pc. All is fine except my cpu, I have an i5 3570k it says this is not good enough. I game in 4k at the moment on medium to high settings on most games with no problems. My rig is...

Intel i5 3570k
Evga Nvidia GTX 980ti superclocked
8gb ram
Windows 10

I presumed this would be ok for the rift but as I say, it tells me the 3570k is not up to it.

Any thoughts?

Cheers.

Disco_P · 19 Jan 2016 at 23:18

Wait until the rift arrives, test it and see whether the CPU is good enough.

beany_bot · 20 Jan 2016 at 07:46

Might be, might not be.
To be honest though. It's a bit of a mismatch pairing there. Your graphics card is one of If not the best card on the market. Your CPU is not. Do you have any money just now to upgrade your CPU? I would. It's not all that expensive and would give you a more balanced rig.

Pardoe · 20 Jan 2016 at 08:13

beany_bot said:
Might be, might not be.
To be honest though. It's a bit of a mismatch pairing there. Your graphics card is one of If not the best card on the market. Your CPU is not. Do you have any money just now to upgrade your CPU? I would. It's not all that expensive and would give you a more balanced rig.

Thanks for ur reply. Yeh I recently upgraded my gpu but I still have my original cpu. My computer is fast and as I say I play the latest games in 4k so I never felt the need to change the processor

fenchu · 20 Jan 2016 at 08:39

As disco mentioned I would wait and see before upgrading.

Pardoe · 20 Jan 2016 at 09:37

fenchu said:
As disco mentioned I would wait and see before upgrading.

Yeh I won't buy anything till I've actually tried it I was just seeing if anyone knew the answer on here. I've read on other forums that it's fine, plus my mate who built my rig said it will be fine. I can overclock it as well. Just wondered why oculus would say you need a higher model

joedeath332 · 20 Jan 2016 at 14:13

Cpu is bound to be ok for the rift.. if not a lot of new cpis will be sold .lol

Karateyid · 20 Jan 2016 at 17:02

yip I'm in the same boat... hoping someone who has early delivery of the rift can confirm whether a 3770K is sufficient... I'll be keeping an eye on the oculus forums and on internets for reviews with various specced machines... My 2 x 280X smash recommend score on 3d Mark Firestrike but Oculus said its more of a single GPU process atm.