[Build Ready] Vr PC

[cheese_PETE]

Hi, my name is Peter and I'm building a new gaming pc soon. I want to play games like FO4 or GTAV at 60fps at 1080 on High - Ultra settings. I also want a consistent gaming experience on the HTC Vive.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($262.25 @ Vuugo) 
Motherboard: Asus B150-PLUS D3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($121.26 @ shopRBC) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($68.98 @ Newegg Canada) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($76.97 @ Amazon Canada) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($64.25 @ Vuugo) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB FTW ACX 2.0+ Video Card  ($849.99 @ NCIX) 
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($94.99 @ Canada Computers) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($96.49 @ Amazon Canada) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)  ($122.98 @ DirectCanada) 
Total: $1758.16
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-17 18:05 EDT-0400

 

A lot of people say wait for pascal so should i wait and get a 1080Ti or will there be a 980Ti discount?

[Sentryy]

It is pretty good; a 980ti will be just as good as a 1080 or x80 (depending on who you ask) and when you want to upgrade you can get another 980ti to sli and it will be cheaper than an x80 at that time.

[Moonzy]

comments:

Spoiler

1) get a board that takes ddr4

2) use ddr4, DDR3 on skylake will damage the chip, unless its DDR3L, and ddr4 have higher memory bandwidth anyway

3) i'd up the ssd to 250gb and hdd to 2tb

4) ill wait for pascal to release if you're not in a hurry, or this will do fine

5) a better psu, i recommend EVGA G2/P2 650W, your gpu is a high end one so having more headroom helps

6) get windows from cheaper sources like subreddit microsoftsoftwareswap/G2A/kinguin

 

i would wait for pascal, they will probably release x80 and x70 first, no x80ti

but i believe the x80 will defeat the 980ti just so people would jump boats `-`

and then release x80ti about a year later and then people gonna jump boats again lol #marketing

[cheese_PETE]

Thank you for the comments. I might wait for Pascal and get the x80, do you know how much they are supposed to cost?

 

New build:

Spoiler

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($259.25 @ Vuugo) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($144.99 @ NCIX) 
Memory: Team Elite Plus 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($53.98 @ Newegg Canada) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($203.25 @ Vuugo) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB FTW ACX 2.0+ Video Card  ($849.99 @ NCIX) 
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($94.99 @ Canada Computers) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($102.46 @ shopRBC) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)  ($15.00) 
Total: $1708.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-17 19:35 EDT-0400

 

[Streetguru]

2 hours ago, cheese_PETE said:

 

You'd need/want a heavily overclocked i5 for decent VR so that your minimum frame rate is as high as it can be

 

Otherwise, wait for the new GPUs to buy a higher end GPU, and you're going to want to wait and see if pascal fixes maxwell's DX12 shortcomings. Plus you're going to save money going with AMD should you ever get an adaptive sync display.

 

However for the best VR experience anyways, you're going to want 2 of the top end GPUs

 

PC hardware always costs about the same.

Anyways, something like this, build is just translated from the US builder, might be some better bang for the buck parts in places

Also don't buy an OEM key if you're going to buy a windows key, and the Home version of windows 10 limits your ability to control security updates

Also the NEX PSUs are sub par, go for a GQ or G2 like below

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/bBxZnQ
Price breakdown by merchant: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/bBxZnQ/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($316.25 @ Vuugo)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 65.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($94.94 @ shopRBC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z170A-X1/3.1 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($138.80 @ DirectCanada)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($42.98 @ Newegg Canada)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($89.99 @ Canada Computers)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($64.25 @ Vuugo)
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 390 8GB PCS+ Video Card  ($449.98 @ Newegg Canada)
Case: Deepcool TESSERACT BF ATX Mid Tower Case  ($44.99 @ Amazon Canada)
Power Supply: EVGA 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($99.99 @ NCIX)
Total: $1342.17
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-17 20:31 EDT-0400