A budget (and i mean it) VR setup

[RaptorJeezus]

Hello PC hivemind,

I recently bought a used rift s to come to the glaring realisation that my current setup is not cutting it in Pavlov, Assetto Corsa and ACC, or really anything thats not very simple in its graphics.
My rig does 1080p very nicely, limited 1440p capabilities, and those limited capabilities are currently biting me in the rear.
It's an HP prebuilt i bought for 1000€ back in 2013. I've since swapped the gpu, and the specs are now the following:

CPU:   i7 4770 that'll boost to 3.9Ghz
Mobo: whatever future e-waste HP used to make it function, its got USB 3 givem credit
RAM:  16gb of ddr 1600 generic looking ram
GPU:  Zotac GTX 1060 6gb mini, bought for 250 in 2017 and worth 300 now. what is wrong with people.
PSU:  [(dense mandarin) 460w with a 6 pin only]  I got a 750w semi modular generic brand PSU of similar vintage that powered the rig i had before it. At some point it went beepity boopity and i replaced the system. Its now in a different windows xp rig and it works great powering an HD 6970 with 2 8 pins!
Drives: one 2tb HDD by western digital to replace the broken ****** seagate 1tb drive that came in it oh my god the pictures were irrecoverable 

Now, since my 1080p performance was honestly pretty good assetto ran at 100+ before i went cpu bound which was rarely the case, could i chance it sourcing a 20 or even 30 series card if i find a local deal and shoving it up this ancient systems PCIE slot and run it with a 7 year old run of the mill non overclockable CPU? Buy an SSD while im at it. 
Or am i better off buying a used system that has better CPU and RAM?

Realistically, i got 700€ to spend on it.
If anybody's done something similar, id love to hear some ideas
 

[givingtnt]

5 minutes ago, RaptorJeezus said:

Hello PC hivemind,

I recently bought a used rift s to come to the glaring realisation that my current setup is not cutting it in Pavlov, Assetto Corsa and ACC, or really anything thats not very simple in its graphics.
My rig does 1080p very nicely, limited 1440p capabilities, and those limited capabilities are currently biting me in the rear.
It's an HP prebuilt i bought for 1000€ back in 2013. I've since swapped the gpu, and the specs are now the following:

CPU:   i7 4770 that'll boost to 3.9Ghz
Mobo: whatever future e-waste HP used to make it function, its got USB 3 givem credit
RAM:  16gb of ddr 1600 generic looking ram
GPU:  Zotac GTX 1060 6gb mini, bought for 250 in 2017 and worth 300 now. what is wrong with people.
PSU:  [(dense mandarin) 460w with a 6 pin only]  I got a 750w semi modular generic brand PSU of similar vintage that powered the rig i had before it. At some point it went beepity boopity and i replaced the system. Its now in a different windows xp rig and it works great powering an HD 6970 with 2 8 pins!
Drives: one 2tb HDD by western digital to replace the broken ****** seagate 1tb drive that came in it oh my god the pictures were irrecoverable 

Now, since my 1080p performance was honestly pretty good assetto ran at 100+ before i went cpu bound which was rarely the case, could i chance it sourcing a 20 or even 30 series card if i find a local deal and shoving it up this ancient systems PCIE slot and run it with a 7 year old run of the mill non overclockable CPU? Buy an SSD while im at it. 
Or am i better off buying a used system that has better CPU and RAM?

Realistically, i got 700€ to spend on it.
If anybody's done something similar, id love to hear some ideas
 

I used to run my CV1 rift on a 4790k + 1070, worked fine for most games. I mostly played DCS & War Thunder.
I'm surprised you're struggling this much..

Did you try maybe cleaning up your windows install to make sure you don't have junk chugging down your system ?

[RaptorJeezus]

Its recent, 6 months old install. The GPU sees 99% usage in 2d because i can just run the frame rate unlimited. the Rift S has a native rate of 80 which it will cap at, and as soon as performance goes below 80 it goes to 40 with asynchronous space warp. its like forced vsync that just seems like the nature of a vr headset which would be great with a good enough system

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Just oc the gpu as a temporary fix

[ChrisLoudon]

39 minutes ago, givingtnt said:

I used to run my CV1 rift on a 4790k + 1070, worked fine for most games. I mostly played DCS & War Thunder.
I'm surprised you're struggling this much..

Agreed.

 

I managed to get my Vive (mk1) and Rift (CV1) running on a 780ti (cant recall what CPU) but games like Project Cars and Elite Dangerous played. Ok, it wasn't perfect but it was workable.

 

46 minutes ago, RaptorJeezus said:

Buy an SSD while im at it. 

Absolutely, yes!

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to New Builds and Planning

[RaptorJeezus]

What you guys are forgetting is a rift s pushes more pixels than a CV1 or vive, i am taxing this GPU with running 1440p split between the eyes, something the 1060 wasnt designed to do in 2016 let alone 2021

[RaptorJeezus]

To give some further input myself, sorry for the double post, i could buy a 5600x rig with 16 quick gigs of ddr4 and all the good bits for 700€ and shove my 1060 in there. Thats an option. I could also buy something like a used and abused 2070 for the same money and shove it up this old ladies chassis. Any input from people running systems like those two proposed ones would be greatly appreciated