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Virtual Reality Upgrade during Black Friday

Bananagab
By Bananagab
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Hello everybody,

 

Virtual Reality is coming next year and I want to be part of it. My current rig includes an i7 4790k, 8gb of ram and a GTX 780. According to Oculus, I have to upgrade to a GTX 970 to be able to run the Rift. 

Since Black Friday is this week, should I upgrade now or wait a few months in case there's a new GPU providing a better bang for the buck for VR?

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970 won't cut it - you need low latency unless you're into puking a lot. Fury X/Fury/Nano are the main cards capable of VR atm

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Wait for pascal next year.

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970 won't cut it - you need low latency unless you're into puking a lot. Fury X/Fury/Nano are the main cards capable of VR atm

 

Puking is my fetish,

just kidding

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VR is a fad, fads are bad m'kay.

unlikely 

in past yes since the tech wasn't there yet

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unlikely

in past yes since the tech wasn't there yet

The people commenting on puke, they do so for a reason lol. Have fun with your pet rock that makes you puke.

If anyone asks you never saw me.

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unlikely 

in past yes since the tech wasn't there yet

it's still not there - you need Fury CF to comfortably drive VR and 980 Ti SLI has latency issues since GDDR5 is not up to the task. Puke heaven

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Celestial (Laptop 1) CPU:i7 4720HQ GPU:GTX 860M 4GB RAM:2x4GB SK Hynix DDR3Storage: 250GB 850 EVO Model:Lenovo Y50-70
Seraph (Laptop 2) CPU:i7 6700HQ GPU:GTX 970M 3GB RAM:2x8GB DDR4Storage: 256GB Samsung 951 + 1TB Toshiba HDD Model:Asus GL502VT
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