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KarlHungus
Up and Coming
January 6, 2016

i7 2700K Does not meet Min Requirements??

Yes Sandy Bridge CPU's are starting to show their age but last I checked a stock 2700k still out performs a i5-4590 in most benchmarks. The Rift compatibility tool seems like its trying to get people to do unnecessary CPU upgrades?

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    Gateshot
    Up and Coming
    January 7, 2016
    Thanks for the link. I did some google fu, but I don't really see too much difference in single core performance between the 3770 and the 4590. http://www.cpu-world.com/benchmarks/Int ... ingle.html

    Am I missing domething? I do see that that there may be a difference in the instruction capability; http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/511/In ... 3770K.html but does that matter for the rift?

    appreciate the advice.
    mgoldb2
    Participant
    January 7, 2016
    looking at this
    http://www.anandtech.com/show/7003/the-haswell-review-intel-core-i74770k-i54560k-tested/6

    there seem to be a very small single core performance jump between ivy bridge and haswell (4%). The bigger jump was between sandy and ivy.

    But I really have no clue exactly what the tool is measuring so I have no way of answering your question. It possible 3770 is perfectly fine and the tool is just program to fail anything below a 4590 even if it extremely small.

    For all we know the tool not doing any real test at all and instead just comparing your cpu to a list of cpus they approved.

    Hopefully someone from Oculus will eventually weigh in.
    simonjkendrew
    Participant
    January 7, 2016
    I ran the Oculus Compatibility tester on my desktop computer and it failed on the CPU and USB 3.0 sockets.

    ASUS Rampage Extreme IV motherboard (8 x USB 3.0, 12 x USB 2.0)
    i7 3930K CPU (3.2 GHz), but overclocked to 4.5 GHz
    32GB RAM
    ASUS Geforce GTX 970 4GB

    I'm guessing the Oculus Compatibility tester is not very reliable? I would have thought my system is suitable, perhaps only needing a GPU upgrade in the near future?
    laminblake
    Participant
    January 7, 2016
    OK guys the best way to test if your PC's performance is ready for the rift is to get the 3Dmark benchmark demo on steam and run the firestrike demo benchmark. If you get over 9200 you meet the minimum requirements for VR. Now that doesn't test for things like usb 3 it only tests your PC's graphics performance which is what counts.
    Quentym
    Participant
    January 7, 2016
    Why do people care about these test programs at all? They are always terrible.
    Of course you can run it with a 2700k just fine. Almost all games are GPU bottlenecked and the 2700k outperforms most newer CPUs on stock settings when overclocked.
    SirDRSpiderpig
    Up and Coming
    January 8, 2016
    "laminblake" wrote:
    OK guys the best way to test if your PC's performance is ready for the rift is to get the 3Dmark benchmark demo on steam and run the firestrike demo benchmark. If you get over 9200 you meet the minimum requirements for VR. Now that doesn't test for things like usb 3 it only tests your PC's graphics performance which is what counts.


    Thanks for this info...really put me at ease. My machine (i7-2600k at 4 ghz) with GTX 980 scored a 11851 on the test. Was really cool test too.

    Now I just need to get a USB 3.0 PCI-e to make the usb requirement.

    So you guys think I'm ok not upgrading to Devil's Canyon i7 for now? Need to save up the 600 bucks for when it hits my credit card in March.
    KarlHungusAuthor
    Up and Coming
    January 8, 2016
    My Build is as follows

    Intel i7 2700K @ Stock speeds
    Sabertooth P67 Mobo
    16GB DDR3 1866MHZ
    EVGA GTX 780 SC in SLI

    My Fire Strike Score is 13,451 the Oculus Rift Recommended Spec is 9,271


    3GB Vram is going to be a problem for VR so im hopping Nvidia drops Pascal in Q1 2016. The 780's have not bottle necked my cpu yet so I am hopping to make it to Skylake-E or CannonLake before upgrading.

    I5 4590 only beats 2700K in single thread performance by 5%, I have had my 2700k upto 4.9GHz (Air cooling) so im confident that will make up the 5%.

    I have high hopes that I can run the launch titles on lower settings, and get by for awhile. I guess I wont really know until late March? :shock:
    KINGMAVRICK
    New Participant
    January 8, 2016
    firestrike score 14345... im pretty sure my pc is good enough... lol. approximately 55% over the required score.. bring it on occulus. :lol:
    drmibbles
    Participant
    January 8, 2016
    The trusty old 2700k is still beast of a processor with wonderful overclocking abilities.

    It will do you just fine. No way am I 'upgrading' from my 2700k running at 4.4Ghz to a slower processor just to tick that box in the useless Oculus benchmarking tool.
    Anonymous
    January 9, 2016
    "Jaaba" wrote:
    I've got a Xeon E3-1230-v3 running at 3.3GHz and it beats hands down the i5-4590. I'm suspecting the compatibility tool isn't doing its job well.


    This, does the tool even account for overclocks?
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