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VR Gaming: Building Your Own Oculus Rig

Performance

Performance Benchmarks

Just to re-cap on the specifications, I’ve got the follow:

Gigabyte GA_Z68XP-UD3P
Intel Core i5 3570K @4.6Ghz.
2 x Sapphire R9 280X Tri-X Vapor-X 3GB
Kingston 120GB SSD
Kingston HyperX Predator 2400Mhz DDR3 8GB Kit
Seasonic 1000W Platinum PSU

Here you can see the system I’ve put together offers up some impressive performance, to put it into perspective, a GTX 980 will bench around 11000, with a graphics score of around 13000. Remember that you can run the 3D Mark Fire Strike benchmark in the free version of the software (download here) to see how your hardware compares.

Again a very good score, especially when you consider a GTX 980 will again pull around 5600 with a graphics score of 5800.

Numbers only paint half of the picture, but there’s no doubt in my mind this is a solid gaming rig and so far, every Oculus Rift capable game has been running smooth as silk with the graphics dialed all the way up to ultra.

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Peter Donnell

As a child still in my 30's (but not for long), I spend my day combining my love of music and movies with a life-long passion for gaming, from arcade classics and retro consoles to the latest high-end PC and console games. So it's no wonder I write about tech and test the latest hardware while I enjoy my hobbies!