CPU incompatibility with Oculus

JohnBucher · Jan 15, 2016

I recently found the Oculus compatibility test and tried it out as I was thinking about buying an Oculus eventually. Upon running the test it said that my CPU was bad, which I found very peculiar.

My CPU is the i7-3770 and the recommended is the i5-4590 and here are the specifications of each:
i7-3770 - http://ark.intel.com/products/65719/Intel-Core-i7-3770-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz
i5-4590 - http://ark.intel.com/products/80815/Intel-Core-i5-4590-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_70-GHz

I'm not an expert but upon looking at these specifications it looks as though a 3770 beats the 4590 in nearly every category. Is there actually something wrong with my processor or something wrong with the compatibility test?

Thank you for your time!

1LiquidPC · Jan 15, 2016

It's likely just a baseline recommendation. I'm sure Oculus would run fine, at most slightly slower.

Supernova1138 · Jan 15, 2016

The i5 4590 would have slightly better single threaded performance, and that does tend to help with games. VR does require very high framerates, so that's why the CPU requirement is rather high, you can't have it being a bottleneck. An Ivy Bridge i7 would definitely still be viable for VR, if you had an unlocked CPU, I'd recommend overclocking to even things out, but you should still be okay, the performance difference between Haswell and Ivy Bridge wasn't very big.

XpJAY · Feb 12, 2016

Yeah I think you'll be ok. Very minor difference in those CPUs.

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