I have a HP Spectre X360 with Thunderbolt 3 ports. I have been using the GTX 1080 Aorus gaming box for quite sometime and it has been great. Three screens with good FPS. I have just bought the Oculus Rift and unfortunately it is horrible. Games where there minimal moving scenes work ok with some shutter but games such as Project Cars or Dirt Rally are unplayable.
Any insights on this??? I imported the Rift from the US and it cost a small fortune to get to the Philippines. It is hard as I don't have my tech Aussie mates back home to help.
The limiting factor may be the bandwidth of Thunderbolt. It's not the same as a PCI x16 slot in a full size PC. So performance won't be the same as a non eGPU 1080. I've just read a few reviews which suggest it's equivalent to a 980 ti which should still be ok but then also depends on the CPU in the laptop. The intense games you mention may just be pushing things too far, VR really does take your hardware to the limits, even when compared to multi-monitor gaming.
Cyber always suggests running some benchmark tool like Prime95 or Unigine looping benchmark and that's pretty good advice, let us know what results you get. Other people have asked about eGPUs so the results would be useful for them.
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Thank you for the tips I will play with it this week and let you know how I go. I have been somewhat disheartened and have been allowing it to collect dust as punishment.
My CPU is an i7-7500u which I know has it's limitations.
I like the concept of it's portability but I think it is time to build a dedicated gaming PC.
Hi, are you using your laptop's screen as the monitor and then the Occulus externally? If you are, that's most of your problem. Find a simple HDMI monitor, your TV, whatever, and use a DVI to HDMI cable from one of the Aorus' DVI ports to your TV (or whatever) and then HDMI to your Occulus.
Disable the laptop screen.
If you're using the laptop screen, the gaming box will cripple its performance in general the Occulus just makes it worse. https://egpu.io/performance-internal-vs-external-display/ Use the DVI on the Aorus for the second screen.
I'm only guessing. If you are NOT using your laptop's screen, from what I can tell the performance should probably be just about there.
If anything is bottlenecking you it is the CPU, in Raw performance comparable to the min spec of the i5-4950, but I think you should be able to dial in something playable, not what you are seeing... what you're seeing seems to either be a struggling CPU (cool enough? everything else off in the background?) or the performance penalty of using your laptop screen.
Actually I should mention too that I'm running with the Aorus Gaming Box with the GTX 1070 so it should be something less than those benchmarks which use the GTX 1080 so I'd figure we're comparable...ish.. and it works well for me.
Hey guys, Apologies for the delay getting back to you.
I have gone from a 3 monitor setup to the Oculus. So an external monitor is not an issue. I am of course only using 1 and disabling the laptop monitor. So that not it....
I am picking up a powered USD hub tomorrow as In have only been able to get one sensor working as USB3.0 and the second one USB2.0. There is an issue with the Aorus box not putting out enough power through their USB ports. Will see how that goes. This has been reported in a number of forums. Aorus haven't
I will do some benchmark testing and post here and hopefully it will help someone else.
@Miribus - - Your specs are similar(ish) but I only have 8GB RAM. Unfortunately the 16GB versions aren't bought to the Philippines. I am thinking it could be a contributing factor. - This is my work PC and it had some pretty heavy monitoring / anti-virus stuff on it. I have since had that taken off. (N-Central from N-Able) - I just noticed Aorus finally have upgraded their Thunderbolt drivers a couple of days ago. That may help too. https://www.gigabyte.com/ph/Graphics-Card/GV-N1080IXEB-8GD#support-dl-firmware ;
@DaftnDirect - - Looks like a good starting point to me but I am definitely not the guy to take advice from!
Fingers crossed something works out tomorrow, in hindsight I should've just built a dedicated PC for it. I am contemplating that seriously.
