Oculus Rift

[red_slr]

Great thanks. Was kind of hoping costs of PCs would have come down but it seems to be £1000 which ever way I split it (better CPU vs better GFX).

I am wondering when the 1000 series is due out? I was considering buying a low end GFX card and replacing it with a better one (10x0) when it comes out.

[Guvernator]

red_slr said:

Great thanks. Was kind of hoping costs of PCs would have come down but it seems to be £1000 which ever way I split it (better CPU vs better GFX).

I am wondering when the 1000 series is due out? I was considering buying a low end GFX card and replacing it with a better one (10x0) when it comes out.

Official announcement for Nvidia Pascal 10xx cards are rumoured to be in April this year with public release about a month after that. I'd expect the release will mean some of the older cards prices drop. I also expect the 10xx cards to be fairly expensive on initial release.

[snuffy]

red_slr said:

Looking to buy a PC in the next few weeks, whats the suggested spec for GFX for OR?

I built myself a new PC only a few weeks ago (with the idea that I might get an OR (I'm still undecided)), this was my spec:

i7-6700k
GTX 970
16GB DDR4 3000MHz
750W Gold PSU
Hydo H80i Watercooler
NZXT H440 case
Gigabyte GA-Z170N-Gaming Motherboard
2.5" 250GB SSD
2.5" 2TB HDD
Windows 10 Pro

That lot was £1400 (I kept my speaks, keyboard and mouse and 3 x 27" monitors).

[Mr Whippy]

I'd take less processor power and take more GPU power probably.

i7 is pretty pointless for gaming since the hyperthreading won't be used by most stuff afaik, unless DX has sorted itself out on Win10 and has full multi-threading and hyper-threading support?!

Better off with something with high Ghz mainly.

Also some of the newer API are more efficient at doing the CPU tasks too, so less CPU demanding. Ie Mantle etc... so generally the direction is probably going to be GPU are the focus of powering the graphics than letting the CPU bottle-neck things.

[Bullett]

I notice overclockers have a deal on 970's £300 still but with the Division, Fary Cry Primal and a 240gb SSD in the package.
Sounded pretty good to me.

Does make me think the next gen are coming and they want to get shot of old stock though.

[red_slr]

Anyone ever used scan pre built systems?

[Irrotational]

red_slr said:

Anyone ever used scan pre built systems?

I just bought one and it's been fine. My IT literate friends are not fans of scan, so I don't know what their customer support is like, but I didn't have to use it :-) They are @google verified" if that means much - i got asked to fill in a google survey and rate my experience after the system was delivered so I'm sure there will be plenty of online reviews for you to check out.

I bought a PC for VR purposes, and essentially went for one of the cheapest ones with a 980 card. On their site is was either the 44i or the 50/51i, in the value range.

I got:-

an i5 something @3.5ghz - was meant to have a free overclock to 4.4 ghz but they forgot and I'm not that fussed.
a z70 or 90 motherboard - i've run the oculus VR checker and it has enough usb3 ports of the right sort, as the rift is a bit picky about uSB
a 250GB SSD for windows
1TB drive for random stuff
an EVGA 980 with a free copy of the division
16GB of ram - slower 2133mhz stuff but i'm sure it will be fine

The case is a corsair one. The site specs didn't really specify what the CPU cooler was but it seems appropriately large and the fan is fairly quiet.

Overall the system is fairly quiet (compared to an old Mesh one that sounded like a hard dryer) but it's by no means silent.

Edited to say - it came with a very clean version of windows 10 without too much nonsense installed. The only things they had on there were test software, and I spotted a folder on the desktop where they had run each test and pasted a screenshot of the results, to help show/prove the system was up and running. Included a CPU burn in test as well as some 3D benchmarks.

Modern Bios'es are crazy - it's like a mini OS all on its own, capable of updating itself over the internet, plus having custom fan speed profiles built into the BIOS...plus loads of random bits and bobs.

Edited by Irrotational on Saturday 26th March 11:26

[red_slr]

Ok cool cheers for that.

[red_slr]

First CV1's are landing in the US. Luckey hand delivered the first one himself to a guy in Alaska!

I presume the first UK orders will start to arrive in a few weeks. Mine is scheduled for June IIRC.. :/

[Bullett]

Mine is coming in July which gives me a chance to decide if I will buy a 970 or one of the next gen cards.

I hope.

[Altrezia]

red_slr said:

I presume the first UK orders will start to arrive in a few weeks. Mine is scheduled for June IIRC.. :/

Mine too

[Irrotational]

Is anyone interested in getting a Day 1 Vive? (Planned for the 5th April).

I "bagsied" my place in the pre-order queue, as I wasn't sure about Rift versus Vive. Both look really good...which makes it a bit difficult! I'm going to go with the Rift as the xbox controller will be handy, plus I can get the Touch controllers later which will spread the cost a little bit.

I suspect the Vive will be selling at a premium on Ebay (it's currently on at between £900 and £1,200 buy it now) but I would just be looking to sell it for whatever it costs me (£750) plus the delivery to the new person (guesstimate of £30 or less - I don't courier much). It will be sent on unopened etc.

If you definitely want it then PM me on here. I'm happy to send on my details etc to try and prove I am not a scammer as best I can :-)

[Altrezia]

Tempted. Do you want to drop me a mail and we can have a chat about it?

[Gr44]

Altrezia can have first dibs, but if not I'd love to take the Vive off your hands, dropped you a pm!

Cheers

Sean

[Irrotational]

Hi chaps - I have emailed both of you back - let me know on here if they're not coming through.

[red_slr]

Had an email over the weekend saying they are having production supply issues...
Hmmm....

They said they will update in 2 weeks..

[Bullett]

I got that as well.
Not really bothered, mine is a long way off (July) so hopefully will be sorted by then and not have too much of a knock on effect.

[judas]

And who said facebook buying Oculus couldn't possibly go wrong?

http://uploadvr.com/facebook-oculus-privacy/

Up to their old tricks again including the classic 'all your content are belong to us' jape.

[EricE]

judas said:

And who said facebook buying Oculus couldn't possibly go wrong?

http://uploadvr.com/facebook-oculus-privacy/

Up to their old tricks again including the classic 'all your content are belong to us' jape.

This is exactly why Oculus was dead to me the second Facebook announced the acquisition.

[FourWheelDrift]

If it's just a monitoring process and doesn't stop you using the headset if the process has been turned off, stopping/disabling the process in services.msc will suffice won't it?