Higher CPU or GPU for CV1 (consumer oculus rift)

Fish8 · Jul 1, 2015

Hello i am building a pc which i plan on using for CV1. I mainly game/ develop games/ program on my computer. I have a budget so i was wondering if it would be better to get an intel core i5 and a gtx 980 or an intel core i7 and a gtx 970. Also which intel i5 and what brand gtx would be a great help

. I dont plan on upgrading in the future. Thanks

James Mason · Jul 1, 2015

Well, how much money do you have to spend, and what country are you located in?

It may be very hard to get good answers, because Oculus has such a low distribution, there isn't a whole lot of evidence of what works best for it yet.

This article gives the recommended specs at least:
https://www.oculus.com/en-us/blog/powering-the-rift/

BUt the stronger GPU will help more, but you'd actually probably want to consider getting an SLI setup of 970s if you can.

For CPU you'd want the i5-4690k, for SLi'd GTX 970s you'd actually want to Nvidia stock cooler.

Anyways, it'd be something like this:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($229.98 @ NCIX US)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($114.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($109.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($329.99 @ Best Buy)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($329.99 @ Best Buy)
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro ATX Full Tower Case ($99.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($84.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $1389.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-01 18:33 EDT-0400

Fish8 · Jul 2, 2015

Thanks james helped a lot, my only worry is that the oculus wont support dual sli's. Is there any knews about if it does or doesnt?

James Mason · Jul 2, 2015

Fish8 :

hmm, good question actually. I suggested the SLI cards because the occulous rift runs 2 monitors at a high resolution (basically) and SLI helps with that, but there seem to be reports that the game devs aren't doing a good job of adding SLI support, so actually a single strong card is better.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($229.98 @ NCIX US)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($114.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($109.98 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB ACX 2.0+ Video Card ($649.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro ATX Full Tower Case ($99.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($84.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $1379.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-02 11:21 EDT-0400

BUT The consumer version isn't out yet, and Nvidia may come along with a proper solution for it, or a new GPU series that works with VR better. But price wise, this is what you'd be looking at down the line if you waited for the final results.

And an i7 might be in order for things like doing 3d rendering. and so is a strong gpu.... basically for actually developing games you want to drop like 2k on a strong system.

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