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Forums - PC - Chet Faliszek (Half-Life, Portal, Left 4 Dead) says VR to bring resurgence of high-end PCs in homes

sethnintendo on 01 January 2016
BasilZero said:
sethnintendo said:
Yea, because everyone has a couple thousand laying around to drop on a PC.

 


You dont need a couple of thousand to be able to play games on PC though ;o

 

My 2010 HP pavilion was worth $400 when I bought it and the GFX card I upgraded to cost me $180 after a $20 rebate. I can play 95% of the games at 60 FPS at ultra settings ;o.

The other 5% are 45-55 fps l0l

@Topic - I doubt VR is gonna do much period especially for PC. If anything majority of people who invest on VR on PC will more than likely get it for hentai games :p

I went about the same route.  Paid about $450 for a refurbished HP a couple years back.  It is an i3 and 8 GB RAM.  I put a R7 260X in it for about $110.  I had to buy a better power supply though which cost about $40-50.  My PC isn't that good but it can play most games.  Cost me around $650 for a semi decent computer (thinking about picking up a SSD considering the prices have dropped).  I love desktops and the ease of upgrading them but I don't see the market really expanding anymore. 





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jangelelcangry on 02 January 2016
JEMC said:
jangelelcangry said:
JEMC said:
Conina said:
JEMC said:
jangelelcangry said:
I don't know about vr future. But also, I don't understand how a $400 console can run vr and a $1k PC is not enough for vr. Can someone explain me that?

Well, to start with a $1k PC can play VR games. The min requirements for the Oculust Rift asks for a quad core CPU and a GTX 970 or an R9 290, and you can get that with less than $1k. And that PC will be able to run the VR games by itself.

These are the recommended requirements for the "full Rift experience", not the minimum requirements. I'm sure, there will be a lot of Oculus compatible games which will run okay with lower specs, especially VR Porn and VR-patched older games. ;)

https://www.oculus.com/en-us/oculus-ready-pcs/

Even better!

Although I'm not sure you'll want to try VR on a PC that "just" meets the basic needs of VR.

 



Thanks for the info and sorry for my level of misinformation. I shouldn't rely on rumors. That's not that much of power for a vr rig, that's good news.

My pleasure.

The biggest problem for VR will be the price of the headset and its accessories, not the power to run it. And with AMD and Nvidia launching new and more powerful cards next year this 2016, that will be even less of a problem.

 



True.