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Yenome:

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--- Quote from: 05SRT4 on June 29, 2016, 01:42:07 am ---Sorry I skimmed through this thread so I might of missed if you answered this already. Whats the specs on the PC you use with the Vive?
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Currently my system specs are:

Intel i7 4790 @4 GHz
nVidia GTX 980 Ti (EVGA FTW edition)
16 GB RAM
Windows 7 64-bit

I've been able to run everything I've thrown at it without a hitch, although some games (i.e. Project CARS, Elite: Dangerous) stutter at higher graphic settings, so I have to adjust accordingly.

I haven't tried super-sampling yet (at least via the Vive's settings), so I may look at upgrading my GPU to take real advantage of that. But I'm waiting to see what all the current next-gen GPU options will be.

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This is the reason the VR is so good the system you try it on is what it comes down too. if you can game at 120fps outside of vr you might get 90fps with VR. VR pc requirements are much higher than gaming pc requirements. Im too cheap to buy a $300 VR approved card. me with my lonely r9 280 will not be doing any VR but i plan on just waiting till the VR comes down in price and the cards in my price range come up in performance. till then ill be doing Playstation VR.

*edit* your card is still $500 i spend about that much on a whole tower couldnt imagine just getting the video card for it. but i bet that things runs everything maxed out. well except VR.

dkersten:

--- Quote from: Yenome on July 01, 2016, 05:03:17 am ---*edit* your card is still $500 i spend about that much on a whole tower couldnt imagine just getting the video card for it. but i bet that things runs everything maxed out. well except VR.

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It's all about what kind of experience you want. You want to get from A to B, buy the cheapest car you can. You want to get from A to B really fast, you have to spend money.

Personally, I can't imagine a gaming rig without a decent 3d graphics card in it. A $500 tower gets you a computer that can surf the web and play java based games (or mame). That's not a "gaming" computer, that's a "personal computer". Add a good graphics card and now you have a gaming computer.

But hey, if you are going to spend $800 on a display/controller (like a VR headset), why wouldn't you power it with at least a decent $300 card (in your $500 tower)? I wouldn't get an 80 inch 4k tv and then watch VHS tapes on it or even SD DVD's for that matter, and I wouldn't buy a Corvette with a lawnmower engine in it either. So why would I have a really great (and fairly expensive) display device without a good source to feed it?

pbj:
Please don't use car analogies. They're always lazy and wrong.

fallacy:
I have been playing around with mixed reality last few weeks it's pretty fun. Now if Vive will hurry up and sell extra controllers in the US so i can attach a third one to a camera and have moving camera.

Yenome:

--- Quote from: dkersten on July 01, 2016, 04:46:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: Yenome on July 01, 2016, 05:03:17 am ---*edit* your card is still $500 i spend about that much on a whole tower couldnt imagine just getting the video card for it. but i bet that things runs everything maxed out. well except VR.

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It's all about what kind of experience you want. You want to get from A to B, buy the cheapest car you can. You want to get from A to B really fast, you have to spend money.

Personally, I can't imagine a gaming rig without a decent 3d graphics card in it. A $500 tower gets you a computer that can surf the web and play java based games (or mame). That's not a "gaming" computer, that's a "personal computer". Add a good graphics card and now you have a gaming computer.

But hey, if you are going to spend $800 on a display/controller (like a VR headset), why wouldn't you power it with at least a decent $300 card (in your $500 tower)? I wouldn't get an 80 inch 4k tv and then watch VHS tapes on it or even SD DVD's for that matter, and I wouldn't buy a Corvette with a lawnmower engine in it either. So why would I have a really great (and fairly expensive) display device without a good source to feed it?

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the slowest car and fastest car will get from point a to b in the general same amount of time because speed limits. a 500 dollar tower built by me gets you around 60fps in the newest games at 1080p. 500 still gets you 16gb mem an i5 and a decent gfx card. above the 200 dollar price point of gfx cards diminishing returns hits you back hard. same with cpu as well, unless you're running VR it is over kill. oh and all computers including gaming are "personal Computers" hence PC.

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