Upgrade Maybe Required

[JSMarsden]

Budget (including currency): £200

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: VR Steam

Hi All,

 

Ive just built a budget PC which was within my price range, however I now want the Oculus Quest 2.....

 

My build at the moment:

Ryzen 3 3100 @ 4.2ghz

Nvidia 1650Super (OC'd)

B450M Motherboard

16GB 3200ghz RAM (HyperX)

SSD + Standard HD's.

 

Nothing too fancy - I think the Oculus Quest 2 should be fine as a lot of games I want to play will be on the VR itself. However, which parts should i look at upgrading first so that if I wanted to play a few games from Steam VR, i would be able to without too much FPS drop? (Don't expect to be playing HL Alyxr or anything intense)

 

I was thinking of possibly looking at the Ryzen 5 3600 OR 1660 Super. Would either one of these upgrades give me much of a chance, or would it require both to be upgraded simultaneously? 

I'm just cautious about 1) budget and 2) bottlenecking GPU/CPU. My idea would be to potentially sell the current CPU/Graphics Card somewhere, and use that toward an upgrade. Dont want ultra graphics or anything, just to be able to play iracing in VR and maybe a few games on the steam VR library

 

P.S Cable Management has been improved since pic

 

Many thanks

[WaggishOhio383]

I think a CPU upgrade should be plenty to give you enough performance. Your GPU should be able to handle VR to my knowledge (even if it won't excel at it - it is still VR ready). Just get a Ryzen 5 3600 and you should be set. Your RAM is already good enough. You can always upgrade the GPU later if you aren't getting as good performance as you would like in VR.

[JSMarsden]

Perfect thanks for this - at least I was on the right lines! @WaggishOhio383

 

I was unsure if the graphics card was good enough as sometimes i get 60FPS on Iracing, 70fps on COD but after the OC and a new CPU i guess it should boost it a bit?

 

Also, i think its a bit easier to sell my CPU rather than GPU, looking at Ebay!:)

[WaggishOhio383]

4 minutes ago, JSMarsden said:

I was unsure if the graphics card was good enough as sometimes i get 60FPS on Iracing, 70fps on COD but after the OC and a new CPU i guess it should boost it a bit?

Yeah you should definitely get higher FPS after the upgrade + OC. And if that doesn't end up being enough for you, then you can still upgrade your GPU as well. Better to upgrade your CPU to start and potentially upgrade the GPU later than to upgrade both to start and then find out you didn't need to upgrade the GPU.

[JSMarsden]

Yep! Thanks for that @WaggishOhio383 - at least I know i'm heading in the right direction.

 

I am also borrowing somebodys Oculus Rift S in the next few days - my own test would be to run a few games I intend on playing and to double check to see if the CPU or GPU are hitting 100%. (I.E CPU @ 100% and GPU at 85% would highlight even further that the CPU is the issue).

 

Just seems a shame that I have a 2 month old CPU and already upgrading. What is happening to me?! haha