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Red or Blue for VR Gaming
- Thread starter bbbearrr
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Option 1.
Get a Xeon now and wait to see what NVIDIA do with their new range, which will probably only be a couple of months away.
Got a [email protected] and a 970 myself and its still good for most things, only lacking a little GPU power, which when NVIDIA pull their finger out I will solve that issue.
Got a [email protected] and a 970 myself and its still good for most things, only lacking a little GPU power, which when NVIDIA pull their finger out I will solve that issue.
Upgrade to a x5650 and get a 1070Ti or 1080/1080Ti.
I've gone from 920 to x5650, then to Ryzen 1600, and now Ryzen 2700x
With VR it's all about being able to keep 90fps and having the clearest/cleanest visuals. Extra eye candy is nice of course.
A little after I got my Rift I changed my 970 to a 1070 which gave great gains in VR (I can only game in VR now).
After seeing how a 1080Ti allowed extra supersampling and the fact that my 1070 kept dropping to 45fps in games I had to get a 1080Ti.
I've overclocked my 1080Ti as much as I can but just to try and squeeze a little more from my system I upgraded my CPU again lately to a 2700x.
To me, for VR this hasn't helped at all. I feel really I could have kept my old EX58 board and x5650 and bought the absolute fastest 1080Ti.
A Titan V is silly money but I would definitely be buying the next card from Nvidia as soon as it's available.
I've gone from 920 to x5650, then to Ryzen 1600, and now Ryzen 2700x
With VR it's all about being able to keep 90fps and having the clearest/cleanest visuals. Extra eye candy is nice of course.
A little after I got my Rift I changed my 970 to a 1070 which gave great gains in VR (I can only game in VR now).
After seeing how a 1080Ti allowed extra supersampling and the fact that my 1070 kept dropping to 45fps in games I had to get a 1080Ti.
I've overclocked my 1080Ti as much as I can but just to try and squeeze a little more from my system I upgraded my CPU again lately to a 2700x.
To me, for VR this hasn't helped at all. I feel really I could have kept my old EX58 board and x5650 and bought the absolute fastest 1080Ti.
A Titan V is silly money but I would definitely be buying the next card from Nvidia as soon as it's available.
Hey Andy,
yeh im going to go the x5650/x5675 route.
A 1080ti is going be out of my budget, as things stand im going to be around 1070ti price point. When nivida release new cards the 1080ti's will come down in price wont they?
Well the rumour mill is suggesting that the 1170 will be about 1080ti performance, so it will be that bracket of performance for the 1170 price, whatever that will be.
Soldato
Just google overclocking on your board. There's plenty of guides on there. If you can't find one for your CPU use one for the 920 its pretty much the same settings.
Have you got a decent cooler?
I ordered a NZXT S340 case and a Cooler Master MasterLiquid lite 240 AIO earlier along with a x5675.
Nice thread this. really useful to know what others have been using CPU wise for VR. Its convinced me to go with a 2600x over the i5 8400 when i build this summer. Like above, im just waiting on Nvidia's latest and greatest before pulling it all together. If the 1170 is 1080ti performance I'll eat my eatable sugar paper hat!
Soldato
Will be sweet. When I went from a 920 to a x5650 everything was definitely a little smoother. I've now got a 5930k and it doesn't seem any different.
2700x is out of my budget really, I could probably stretch to a 1700 but I feel im better off going for a ryzen 5 2600 than a 7 - 1700 correct me if im wrong in that respect?
This was something i had considered.
1700
My basket at Overclockers UK:
2600
My basket at Overclockers UK:
1700
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x Corsair CX-M Series 650W 80 Plus Bronze Semi Modular Power Supply (CP-9020103-UK)= £79.99
- 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 Eight Core 1700 3.70GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £218.99
- 1 x Asus ROG Strix B350-F Gaming AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £106.99
- 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G24= £134.99
Total: £552.06 (includes shipping: £11.10)
2600
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x Corsair CX-M Series 650W 80 Plus Bronze Semi Modular Power Supply (CP-9020103-UK)= £79.99
- 1 x MSI X470 Gaming Pro AMD X470 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £128.99
- 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TLGD= £149.99
- 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 2600 3.90GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £169.99
Total: £540.06 (includes shipping: £11.10)
Soldato
Your VR experience will gain zero ground if you bought either of those kits, and stuck with the GTX 970, your GPU is the bottleneck, and unless you are going to get a GTX 1080 or above, then that will continue to be the case. You should analyse the problem as number of frames gained per pound spent, of which changing the platform isn't going to net you as many frames as having a much better GPU, at the moment.
I would happily go 2600 vs 1700 for a VR/gaming purpose. They are perceptibly the same, just one has two more cores and threads that wont be utilized in gaming.
Yeh i understand my GPU is the bottleneck currently. I dont want to splash out on a new 1080 until i know what the next gen of GPU's are looking like and how prices are affected. Im tempted to upgrade my platform while i wait and see what happens with GPUs
(I havent currently purchased any VR hardware as of yet, I just wanted to get my system ready for around the end of the year where i might put a vive/rift on my christmas list)
Soldato
Right ... makes a lot more sense now. Basically you are buying a whole new system, by the end of the year
