Wanting to get a smoother VR experience, time to upgrade the 970?

[jesus2nd]

Now then, recently got myself an oculus quest and have learnt that I can use the oculus link feature to play the steamVR titles through the PC. I've found that I can run the earlier releases pretty well but I'm struggling with the likes of Boneworks and such.

Thinking of putting between £200-350 into my rig to get a smoother experience out of it but not too sure if a straight up graphics card is going to be bottlenecked by the rest of my set up,

i5 3570K
GTX 970
8gb of Ram
XFX Pro 550W Core Edition

Any cards worth looking at within that price range? I told myself I was "Done" with the whole upgrading game but man needs to play boneworks with a decent FPS.

Cheers
Sam

 

[whitecrook]

i've got a nvidia 1060 6GB. bit old but replaced a 970 at the time and made a massive difference.

 

[Aretak]

I don't really know much about Boneworks specifically, but in more general terms a 3570K is going to struggle with anything much more powerful than your current card. Of course, the cost of upgrading to, say, a Ryzen 3600 plus a motherboard and some DDR4 would eat around £300 of your budget in itself.

 

[Panos]

Now then, recently got myself an oculus quest and have learnt that I can use the oculus link feature to play the steamVR titles through the PC. I've found that I can run the earlier releases pretty well but I'm struggling with the likes of Boneworks and such.

Thinking of putting between £200-350 into my rig to get a smoother experience out of it but not too sure if a straight up graphics card is going to be bottlenecked by the rest of my set up,

i5 3570K
GTX 970
8gb of Ram
XFX Pro 550W Core Edition

Any cards worth looking at within that price range? I told myself I was "Done" with the whole upgrading game but man needs to play boneworks with a decent FPS.

Cheers
Sam

3570K is a huge bottleneck, especially with just 8GB RAM regardless the GPU you have.

 

[varkanoid]

Should really ask this in the VR.

3570K is a huge bottleneck, especially with just 8GB RAM regardless the GPU you have.

Think thats a bit of an exaggeration its not a huge bottleneck regardless the GPU (eg it wouldnt bottleneck a GTX580 for instance!) and the 8gb RAM doesnt have a bearing on the bottleneck. What a completely incorrect statement.

My advice would be to make sure you overclock the i5 3570k, (often you just need to go into the BIOS and change the CPU multiplier up a few places) try setting it at x40.
Then look into throwing another 8gb in the rig to make it 16gb whilst RAM is cheap if you can find it reasonable.
Next why didnt you buy Boneworks on the Quest ? Then it would run native and your PC would not even come into the equation ?

As Whitecrook said I would look to get a 2nd hand 1060 6gb for about £120 and then add an extra 8gb RAM and save rest of your money towards a complete upgrade. It will be the smallest outlay for the biggest performance increase.

 

[melmac]

Now then, recently got myself an oculus quest and have learnt that I can use the oculus link feature to play the steamVR titles through the PC. I've found that I can run the earlier releases pretty well but I'm struggling with the likes of Boneworks and such.

Thinking of putting between £200-350 into my rig to get a smoother experience out of it but not too sure if a straight up graphics card is going to be bottlenecked by the rest of my set up,

i5 3570K
GTX 970
8gb of Ram
XFX Pro 550W Core Edition

Any cards worth looking at within that price range? I told myself I was "Done" with the whole upgrading game but man needs to play boneworks with a decent FPS.

Cheers
Sam

Yeah, depends on how much you want to spend. If you want to go the AMD route you could get the 5700 well within your budget or you could get the 5700XT at the top of your budget.

But, If you want to stick with Nvidia then you might consider the 2060 for within your budget or the 2060 super for around the top of your budget. They are just after releasing a technology called VRSS that provides a boost in performance for Boneworks and some other VR games. If you could stretch to a 2060 super I think that would be the best Nvidia option as the Super cards handle VR better than the Non supers.

You might suffer a little bit of bottlenecking but it will still be worlds ahead of what you have.

TLDR: get the 5700XT or the 2060 Super.

 

[jesus2nd]

Cheers guys, all gives me a bit to think about! I'll definitely look into overclocking the processor and slapping some more ram in! I'll have a browse on the 'bay for a 1060 too!

Wasn't too sure whether to post this in the VR thread but with it been about the hardware/compatibility side of things I thought best to posting in general hardware!

... boneworks isn't available standalone on the quest unfortunately!