Caelum's Guide to making a mid-range VR computer for 2015
THE VIDEO CARD:
INTRO: http://phantasmagoricvr.blogspot.com/2015/01/vr-computer-for-dummies-and-poor-people.html
MOTHERBOARD: http://phantasmagoricvr.blogspot.com/2015/01/caelums-guide-to-making-mid-range-vr_4.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
This is the price hitter, and for good reason too, this is what'll make your hmd a thing of glory, especially with the rift, once over that 75 frames per second (fps) you get rid of jitter (the choppy flicker you get when looking around) which is a huge difference. So it ends up being all or nothing with the graphics.
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-770-vs-GeForce-GTX-760
So to get that high on rift demo's (and mostly the small number of games). You should be looking at a NVIDIA geforce gtx 770, or the cheaper one NVIDIA geforce gtx 760. Dual GPU setups in this case aren't recommended, although I'm using a dual NVIDIA geforce gtx 560 becuase I stumbled across a very good deal, and it's been running splendidly.
The video card will almost surely play most things nice even when the "new vr graphics cards" are out so this will be your largest price tag that won't get full use. You may feel it's not worth the buy but the need for high vr fps is so important it's not worth it to have anything lower that 50fps. Like I said it's all or nothing and when time's up you can always sell your card if you've kept it in good condition.
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