Help with getting vr and AI ready pc

[Stinos]

Hey,

 

I'm looking for a desktop that is able to vr game the most games but also is good for AI (artificial intelligence) training.

 

1. Budget & Location

My budget is 1000-1200 euro for everything (shipping included). Because I live in Europe it's very tricky for import fee's mostly they are around 20% if i order something of the VS.

2. Aim

I wanna be able to enjoy VR games on normal settings for the first couple of years. And i also want it to decent deal with AI training, i know their are cloud solutions for AI training but a decent rig should be cheaper than a cloud based solution...

3. Monitors

Nothing to fancy here, I (non-vr) game on any setting as long it runs decent (30-40fps for most games). I now have a ultra wide 2K display but for games and i often scale the resolution down for performance.

4. Peripherals

Being able to attach a VR game headset and still having place for some additional usb would be fine. 

 

 

I recently saw a old workstation I could use and replace GPU by a gtx 1080.

Specs:

• 2 x Intel X5690 CPU
• 96 GB DDR3 RAM
• T7500 motherboard
• Nvidia quadro FX580 GPU.  => I would replace this
• 1100 watt Silver PSU

The server cost 300 euro. Than I have plenty of money for a old gtx 1080...

I saw the workstation only have a pci-e 2.0 interface for the GPU, is this a significant bottleneck for the gtx 1080 or should i replace with another GPU? Or should i go for a dual lower-tier GPU?

 

Any idea is welcome, i prefer pre-builds because i don't really wanna spend to much time in searching how to do it safely ect...

[Sakkura]

The X5690 is old and doesn't support AVX. That can cause issues in VR. The Quadro FX580 is very old and utterly unsuitable for VR.

 

I think you would be much better off getting a new system instead, or at least buying a more modern used system.

[Stinos]

1 hour ago, Sakkura said:

The X5690 is old and doesn't support AVX. That can cause issues in VR. The Quadro FX580 is very old and utterly unsuitable for VR.

 

I think you would be much better off getting a new system instead, or at least buying a more modern used system.

Do you have any recommendation?

But apart from VR it would be doable to game on it with a decent GPU? Does the PCI-e 2.0 a big bottleneck?

[Sakkura]

1 hour ago, Stinos said:

Do you have any recommendation?

But apart from VR it would be doable to game on it with a decent GPU? Does the PCI-e 2.0 a big bottleneck?

It could game somewhat reasonably, but you'd have a CPU bottleneck with a good GPU. PCIe 2.0 is less of a concern.

 

You could maybe go for a prebuilt with a Ryzen 7 and an RX 580 or GTX 1060 6GB.