Advice on upgrading for HTC Vive VR

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LogFish

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Hi folks -

I am super excited about the HTC Vive and intend to get one. However, I upgraded my PC some years ago, but not the graphics card. I am wondering if I can just put a bigger/better graphics card in what I have got to make the Vive experience as good as possible, or whether I'll need to get a whole new PC. Can you hardware boffins please point me in the right direction?

Computers specs:
motherboard: gigabyte x58A-UD3R
RAM: 3x 2gig DDR3-1600G
PSU: enermax something. It says Active PFC 100-240VAC, I've lost the specs when I bought it, but I am pretty sure it's a 600watt because I had intended to buy another ATI 4850 and crossfire them, and knew I needed extra power for that.
CPU: i7 930@ 2.8ghz
OS: win10 64bit
Graphics card: ATI Radeon 4850

So, what kind of graphics card am I going to need to run the HTC Vive excellently? And will the modern, decent cards run on my motherboard and PSU?

Edit - also I was thinking I'd just get another 3x 2gb sticks of ram to take all 6 slots, get to 12gig RAM. Is that sensible or should I buy other sticks?

Thanks so much for any advice you can provide. I am years behind the game.
 
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rayzhell

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As far as ram I'd say get a 16G kit 2x8 thats gonna be around 60 dollars.
as far as graphics any r9 390 or gtx 970 will do it with a bit of room to spare that's gonna be about 250-350 dollars
and i would strongly advise a new power supply my choice for that setup would be the evga 650 watt modular around 70 dollars
take a look at this https://pcpartpicker.com/user/rayzhell/saved/7qDPxr it should be more then fine to run the vive
 
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