Need a new graphics card for vr

howls

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Hello i need to upgrade my graphic card for my new vive vr but i never done anything like that before. I want to know what graphic card should i get i currently have an AMD Radeon R9 200 series. How do i chose a graphic card? Can i only get AMD? Plz help.
 
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Honestly because of the single core speeds of the old Dozer AMD chips, that rig is not a very good candidate for a glowing VR experience in my opinion.

Having said that, you could try it with a GTX 1060 6Gb and see how it goes.

howls

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 -- AMD 990FX w/ 4x PCI-E 2.0 x16
Processor: AMD FX-8320 CPU (8x 3.50GHz/8MB L3 Cache) Eight-Core Processor
Memory: 32 GB [8 GB x4] DDR3-1600 Memory Module - Corsair or Major Brand **FREE Upgrade to DDR3-1866 ADATA XPG V2**
Video Card: AMD Radeon R9 280 - 3GB - Single Card
Primary Hard Drive: 2 TB 7200RPM HARD DRIVE
Data Hard Drive: 1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 32M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive
 

Mark RM

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Honestly because of the single core speeds of the old Dozer AMD chips, that rig is not a very good candidate for a glowing VR experience in my opinion.

Having said that, you could try it with a GTX 1060 6Gb and see how it goes.
 
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howls

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Dec 15, 2017
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ok thank you