DK2 Oculus rift pc build

Pim1 · May 12, 2014

Hi guys, just ordered the dk2 rift to be delivered in August , I have aprox £600 to spend on a pc build. I do not need a hard drive or monitor keyboard etc. the specs I need are minimum frame rates of 75 with at least high settings for graphics. (The consumer rift will need 90fps). I do not mind AMD or Intel whatever is the best for my budget.

If you could rate this build or beat it that would be great :-) thanks

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/99747-gaming-pc-for-£600-help/

qwertywarrior · May 12, 2014

welcome to the forums

well its gonna be 2560x1440

will u be playing games made for oculus ?

most games made for Oculus are pretty lightweight (check out steam)

Manny Calavera · May 12, 2014

as far as GPU goes, you need something beefy, like 290, that is good overclocked with good aftermarket fan ( MSI )

then intel CPU that is overclockable so you dont get lag spikes, or frame drops that kills immersion and joy ( makes you sick probably)

EDIT:

oh, thats a bit low budget.

i guess like 4570 + cheap mobo and stock intel heatsink ( quieter than amd ) and r9 280x or 280 depends what fit budget, then OC

or wait for new haswell refresh. +100mhz more on each core, for same price and better TIM for lower thermals

ShadowCaptain · May 12, 2014

If you really need to save money, perhaps an i3 4130 or something as CPU and get the best GPU you can

Pim1 · May 12, 2014

Thanks, yes 1440p would be the max I think consumer rift will be but dk2 is 1080p. I am really thinking of the r9 290 and building around that. So that's about £ 300-340 of my budget gone. So it's what motherboard CPU etc that I need help with I think.

Yes games are a bit weak at the moment on the rift but they are being ported to unreal engine 4 so that will improve the looks but add extra pressure on the hardware.

I have 12 weeks or less before it arrives so can wait till new refresh CPU if you think it would add to my build. I am new to all this pc stuff as I am a ps4 gamer so I thought the GPU is the most important?

Pim1 · May 12, 2014

The £600 build that I linked too, is this a good solid build if I just lose the hard drive and up GPU from 280x to 290?

Cheers

Manny Calavera · May 12, 2014

Thanks, yes 1440p would be the max I think consumer rift will be but dk2 is 1080p. I am really thinking of the r9 290 and building around that. So that's about £ 300-340 of my budget gone. So it's what motherboard CPU etc that I need help with I think.

Yes games are a bit weak at the moment on the rift but they are being ported to unreal engine 4 so that will improve the looks but add extra pressure on the hardware.

I have 12 weeks or less before it arrives so can wait till new refresh CPU if you think it would add to my build. I am new to all this pc stuff as I am a ps4 gamer so I thought the GPU is the most important?

well, gpu is very important with new games, but you dont want to buy 100 pound cpu and 400 pound gpu

i think you much rather drop down to r9 280x and get intel cpu because you dont want any frame drop. Also amd gpus work well with intel cpus so thats ok too.

I will make approximate build or more variants so we know where we are at.

to put 280x performance in perspective ( 1080p, since you said DK2 will not have bigger res, btw will you buy consumer version also? ) when overclocked its similar performance to Gtx 770 from nvidia. It has 1gb more vram for textures, anti aliasing and stuff and bigger bandwidth to use it even with stock memory clock speeds. ofcourse depends on price, so need to look pcpartpicker. usually its cheaper than 770.

intel cpu because much stable in games ( for example minimum frames per second ) because single core performance

for example in crysis 3 you get better minimum fps ( 8350 vs 3570 )

minimum fps are far more noticable, you dont want to drop down

Manny Calavera · May 12, 2014

oh yea, benchmarks

intel is better because it can do more work in one cycle than amd

but if you go amd its ok, since new games will also have some tweaks for multithreading and also tweaks on API level, so its not entirelly bad decision to go amd, since you can OC anyway. if you manage to get 8320 to like 4.6 on air with air cooler ( for example macho hr02 ) thats good and will remove some bottleneck

but that again is only in cpu intensive games that were made in past, so we dont know how much impact would it have in future games

Pim1 · May 12, 2014

Yes will be buying the consumer rift on release day prob 2015 Q1 (will sell dk2 ). I think I could stretch to a i5 3550.

I know a pc is way more powerful etc but it takes a new console to up the game engines as we have just seen with next gen just coming out. That said they both rock a amd CPU so would not most games be built with that in mind. Amd could be the one to go with ? Look forward to your builds :-)

Thanks

Manny Calavera · May 12, 2014

Yes will be buying the consumer rift on release day prob 2015 Q1 (will sell dk2 ). I think I could stretch to a i5 3550.

I know a pc is way more powerful etc but it takes a new console to up the game engines as we have just seen with next gen just coming out. That said they both rock a amd CPU so would not most games be built with that in mind. Amd could be the one to go with ? Look forward to your builds :-)

Thanks

Ok, i am not great builder, need others opinion. Maybe you should make separate thread again.

This is what i have come up with. Is it too expensive?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (£176.39 @ Aria PC)

Motherboard: MSI B85-G41 PC Mate ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£53.44 @ Amazon UK)

Memory: Patriot Viper 3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£49.98 @ CCL Computers)

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£33.59 @ Aria PC)

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280X 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (£220.99 @ Dabs)

Case: BitFenix Comrade ATX Mid Tower Case (£28.04 @ Aria PC)

Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£44.08 @ CCL Computers)

Total: £606.51

(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)