i5 3570K and the Oculus rift

[Draconorst]

I have been looking at the recommended specs for the Oculus rift and I noticed that the recommended cpu is the i5 4590 or better.

I have a i5 3570k overclocked to 4.2ghz.

Does this cpu now meet the recommended spec?

BTW all other components meet recommended spec and I have run the tool.

Sorry if this has already been discussed.

[Rolling Potatoe]

eh sure, the clocl per clock difference is only a few %.

[Lotus]

I would say the CPU would barely be meeting minimum spec right now, so I'd try and push a higher overclock but not sweat it if I couldn't.

[Draconorst]

3 minutes ago, Lotus said:

I would say the CPU would barely be meeting minimum spec right now, so I'd try and push a higher overclock but not sweat it if I couldn't.

Do you mean 'Recommended spec' I would have thought with the overclock it would beat a i5 4590. but could be wrong.

[Lotus]

I'm going by synthetics, so they're not the most accurate, but an i5-4590 is better than a 3.8 GHz 3570k by a small bit. Going from 3.8 to 4.2 is not a high overclock (barely 10%), so I guessed it would put in on par (again, according to unreliable synthetics). Also, I'm not familiar with a difference between recommended and minimum when it comes to VR since I was under the impression that anything less than the recommended resulted in a not-acceptable VR experience.

[Imabigmac]

Conventional wisdom still applies to VR, a 3570k will still be adequate regardless of "recommended specs".