VR Ready Build for Medical Research

[jtjallday]

I need some help figuring out the least expensive build that can support VR. The research grant has a budget for the hardware and the computers will be used soley for this research. I'm not sure what the school will do with the computers once the research has finished but that's not my problem. I need to build 3 PCs that can support VR with silky smooth frame rates. The VR program will likely be somewhat of a static environment, but I havent gotten any confirmation on what exactly will be displayed, but it should be somewhere between more than Minecraft but less than Witcher III. Regardless, the nature of the research requires the best frame rates >60fps. I would really appreciate any help someone could give me for every component of the build except the VR headsets themselves and the graphics cards. I believe those will be oculus rift and the GTX1070/1080 (depending on future benchmarks). Thank you!

[Herman Mcpootis]

what's the budget for all the PCs?

[NumLock21]

Dell has made workstations just for vr. Check them out.

 

https://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/vn/press-releases/2016-03-31-dell-reveals-more-configurations-for-virtual-reality-pcs

[jtjallday]

14 hours ago, herman mcpootis said:

what's the budget for all the PCs?

<$800. less expensive is better as it frees up some of the budget for research supplies.

[jtjallday]

8 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

Dell has made workstations just for vr. Check them out.

 

https://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/vn/press-releases/2016-03-31-dell-reveals-more-configurations-for-virtual-reality-pcs

Those are waaaaaaay more expensive than what the budget will allow. Keep in mind these are temporary computers as they are only meant to accomplish research that will take 2 months at most.

[NumLock21]

12 minutes ago, jtjallday said:

Those are waaaaaaay more expensive than what the budget will allow. Keep in mind these are temporary computers as they are only meant to accomplish research that will take 2 months at most.

So after 2 months, those pc gets throw away?

[jtjallday]

3 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

So after 2 months, those pc gets throw away?

I honestly dont know what they will do with them. Probably sit in a closet for a couple years.

[NumLock21]

1 hour ago, jtjallday said:

I honestly dont know what they will do with them. Probably sit in a closet for a couple years.

What a waste, just build them a PC based on the minimum specs or something. This thread should help you out

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/558807-post-your-steamvr-performance-test-results-here/?page=1

[jtjallday]

On 5/26/2016 at 10:57 PM, NumLock21 said:

What a waste, just build them a PC based on the minimum specs or something. This thread should help you out

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/558807-post-your-steamvr-performance-test-results-here/?page=1

Great resource! Thank you