Steam VR Performance Test: Failed my GPU, but Greenlit my OLD CPU - Really?

KrisAK

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Nov 16, 2013
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I ran Steam's VR Performance test, wondering how badly my old workstation would score.

It's an HP Z600, running dual Xeon E5520@ 2.27GHz, 32GB memory, GTX 660 GPU.


Much to my surprise, the only thing that it flagged was the GPU. Those old CPUs were given a green light. Which has me wondering:

If I upgraded to a better GPU, would I be able to run a VR headset on this thing? (This as a way of incrementally upgrading.) Or is there a catch that Steam test isn't pointing out?