Hey gang! This is my first post, I hope I put it in the right spot. Just got the Rift last week and it blew my mind right out of the box. I'd never even demoed an VR system before. Holy smokes!! It seems to run pretty well on my system if I don't run the super sampling over 1.3. I'm running it on a Ryzen 5 1400 w/ a Raedon RX 580. I have 16GB of 2400 ram. I don't want to spend a ton of money for just a small amount of improvement. If I'm going to invest I'd like to really see the difference. So would you upgrade the CPU or GPU first to see the most improvement. Thanks so much for taking the time to help me. Cheers!
I agree. Rift stomps on the gpu so bigger is better. I've got a ryzen 5 1600x and 1080 gtx. It's a nice mid tier balance so I reckon a 1080 would be a good start.
Exactly, there are many VR games coming from PSVR or GearVR, which have quite low poly counts and therefore won't require much cpu power, while you'll need the most powerful GPU available to get the best visual quality in your VR games. I can see you're already got a taste for the White Lady (the beautiful miss Super Sampling), and you already knows what she requires - no cpu can help you with her 😉
Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD "Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"
Exactly, there are many VR games coming from PSVR or GearVR, which have quite low poly counts and therefore won't require much cpu power, while you'll need the most powerful GPU available to get the best visual quality in your VR games. I can see you're already got a taste for the White Lady (the beautiful miss Super Sampling), and you already knows what she requires - no cpu can help you with her 😉
Not to be confused with the Golden Lady which when both @vannagirl is around and I'm wearing my gimp suit. B)
Thanks for the help. Looking at some 1080s around the $500 range. Never entertained spending that much on a graphics card in my life. The RX580 played Witcher 3 and Far Cry 5 flawlessly but VR is a whole other beast.
Over 90% of the time it's the GPU upgrade that matters. From my experience very few VR games are CPU intensive, beyond what CPU power is needed to render the graphics.
