Occulus Rift review by 777

[HaJa]

http://forum.il2sturmovik.net/topic/578-initial-oculus-rift-impressions-after-demo/

 

[Kitlope]

oh my does that ever sound interesting

 

[Kitlope]

Oculus VR Releases Recommended Hardware Specs

NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD 290 equivalent or greater
Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater
8GB+ RAM

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/oculus-vr-releases-recommended-hardware-specs.html

Some pretty hefty specs needed.

 

[Daunt]

I posted the specs on Little P's Oculus thread the other day. Quite a bit but to be expected. The money you save on a really nice monitor or two just needs to go to making sure you have the right hardware.

 

[ElektroVodka]

I'm in the green yay! I didn't expect it to be that demanding tho.

 

[mondo]

I think I might finally have to upgrade and get new architecture. My 2600K has soldiered on pretty well, glad I invested in it but hoped I would get at least a year or so more out of the 770 I bought last year.

 

[Wotan]

I think the 970 will not suffice.

 

[Daunt]

Seems my 7850 is woefully outdated for this. On a sidenote, what is with the naming / numbering convention? I'm trying to find a pattern here but it seems really tough to gauge.

Best I could find: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html

Still don't understand how GTX 295, GTX 480, GTX 570, and GTX 660 are all comparable? And how the 3rd "best" on nvidvia's list is a GTX 780 and GTX 980, then the next one up goes to GTX 690?

Anyone that can explain how these come together?

 

[mondo]

I think it's largely down to raw power, memory and that some cards use chipsets from previous generations. Also it's fairly common now that the Nvidia cards with 90 after them are dual GPU.

For example the Geforce 295 I think is two 280s on a single board so while 7 years old is relatively powerful. The 690 I think is two 680s on one board, 590 is two 580s and the 7XX are rebadged 6XX chips with more memory or something similar.

 

[Daunt]

Hahaha. But seriously. I did some more digging and this makes sense: (for either Nvidia or AMD)
1st number is generation
2nd is performance class
3rd Subclass or inner performance / model
4th (for AMD) used to make it a larger number and seem cooler than Nvidia

 

[little P]

I had a DK2 and my G1 970 ran it just fine. Never had a problem with it. Even with the increase in screen resolution I can't see it being a problem from the specs they released.