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Hardware recomendations for a good Gaming/VR capable system?
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Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2015-12-30 21:52:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Tyberius Franklin
I've been running on the same PC for close to 7 years now and it's beginning to show it's age. As someone who really likes the visuals in this game but can no longer crank up the settings and get a consistent framerate I'm looking at replacing my current machine. I'm looking for help with recommendations regarding a decent processor to build around and video card primarily. Other component recommendations are welcome as well.

I'm also wanting to be ready to give VR sets a try as well.

Price isn't really the big issue here as much as wanting whatever I get to hopefully be good enough to last another 5+ years and still be decently capable on the same processor and mobo at least. And hopefully avoid needing to replace the video card only once during that span.

Any help and/or advice is appreciated.
Mina Sebiestar
Minmatar Inner Space Conglomerate
#2 - 2015-12-30 23:13:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Mina Sebiestar
For gaming it's easy i7 of latest kind any high end GPU preferably of latest kind the more isk the better since you are aiming for years in future.

For VR i don't know, current GPU tech is over one year old and VR wasn't( isn't ) a thing back then so while high end graphic can run it I personally plan to skip this gen of vid cards all together.

November/October '16 isn't that far off and I recon not much games will warrant VR use by that time.

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Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2015-12-31 01:02:52 UTC
Good point about the video cards. May have to hold off a bit on that before making to much of an investment.
Buzz Orti
State War Academy
Caldari State
#4 - 2016-01-03 00:10:41 UTC
Aiming for a cyber Monday Video card / Oculus Combo ?

I am afraid I will not get this luxury.


I'm gonna be stuck to get one or more systems for my fighter pilots to test and we're planning to make some videos.

I even know someone on Twitch.tv who is willing to test it as well.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift

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Jenshae Chiroptera
#5 - 2016-01-03 14:48:06 UTC
Regular gaming machine
Intel® Core™ i5-6600K (6MB Cache, Overclocked up to 4.3GHz)
16GB Dual Channel DDR4 at 2133Mhz
AMD Radeon™ R9 FURY X with 4GB HBM

Upper side of mid range processor and RAM with the focus on graphics card(s) especially for your VR.

More future proof
Intel® Core™ i7-5820K with L-2011-3 socket motherboard.
32GB Quad Channel DDR4 at 2133MHz (4x8GB)
Dual NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 980 Ti graphics with 12GB total (2x 6GB)

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Buzz Orti
State War Academy
Caldari State
#6 - 2016-01-03 21:22:33 UTC
I definitely want 2 internet connections with their own hardware interface and the 2 or more related systems with operating systems licenses and software .

It will be good for the multi-client application which I will be able to switch to dual boxing instead.

Dual boxing with one internet connection is like cheating.

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Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2016-01-04 02:12:26 UTC
Thanks for the specific recommendations. Getting a good idea from that what to look for and cost.