Caelum's Guide to making a mid-range VR computer for 2015: THE CPU

Caelum's Guide to making a mid-range VR computer for 2015

INTRO: http://phantasmagoricvr.blogspot.com/2015/01/vr-computer-for-dummies-and-poor-people.html

RAM: http://phantasmagoricvr.blogspot.com/2015/01/caelums-guide-to-making-mid-range-vr_59.html

MOTHERBOARD: http://phantasmagoricvr.blogspot.com/2015/01/caelums-guide-to-making-mid-range-vr_4.html

STORAGE: http://phantasmagoricvr.blogspot.com/2015/01/caelums-guide-to-making-mid-range-vr_94.html

VIDEO CARD: http://phantasmagoricvr.blogspot.com/2015/02/caelums-guide-to-making-mid-range-vr.html

PERIPHERALS: http://phantasmagoricvr.blogspot.com/2015/02/caelums-guide-to-making-mid-range-vr_18.html

CASE, POWER SUPPLY, OPTICAL DRIVE, AND OPERATING SYSTEM: http://phantasmagoricvr.blogspot.com/2015/02/caelums-guide-to-making-mid-range-vr_10.html

THE CPU:

Finding the right CPU for your mid range computer will (like every component) be dependent on your budget. I recommend choosing one now (if you haven't already) because I guarantee it will speed up this process immensely.

This piece will be around $150-$200 because you'll want to spend around $400 for your cpu, and gpu in general. For the newest gen you need a cpu with 4 cores or quad core. Most mid to hi have 4+ with much fewer having 2 toward the lower quality proccesers. The other stat you should pay attention to is the clock speed. I'm more iffy in this subject but it sounds like as long as your comparing withing the same family and core number you want something above 3.0 with 4.0 being all you'll ever need. So 3.1 should be the cheapest. that you really need for vr gaming. A higher CPU will be a factor for people who do more multitasking, and video rendering, exporting. ect. For the basic email and youtube guy 3.0-3.5 should be more than enough. Just close your tabs before gaming.

AMD or INTEL

You'll hear this a lot. There are pretty much one of two people you're going to get your CPU from and its INTEL or AMD. To some this is like the heated battle between the Playstation and Xbox your loyal to one or the other. To me its more like the battle between the Playstation and Xbox, you get whichever works best for you and you let it sit there and look fancy. The only major things I should mention are only certain motherboards work with either intel or amd but for this guide were choosing our motherboard after so it won't matter. The same goes for video cards( NVIDIA vs Radeon)

Some recommended are the:
Intel core:

15-4690k
15-4460
15-3330
15-470


these are all Intel because there all I've looked at so far but choose the best for you.

Next the memory: http://phantasmagoricvr.blogspot.com/2015/01/caelums-guide-to-making-mid-range-vr_59.html