[SOLVED] Advice on VR PC build

[loki180]

Hello,

I'd like peoples advice on this build for VR gaming. With some of the highest requirements for some games being a i7 9700K, NVIDIA RTX 2080 along with 16gb Ram.

The rig I'm working on is

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
Sapphire Radeon RX 6700 XT MBA 12GB GDDR6 PCI-Express
Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C17 3600MHz Dual Channel
MSI B550 Micro ATX Motherboard
AMD CPU Cooler
600W 80Plus Bronze Rated PSU

all within a Kolink Citadel Glass SE ARGB Micro-ATX Gaming Case

Thank you for any advice. A RX 6700 is lower against a RTX 2080 but it's all within budget.

Alternatives are

Ryzen 7 3700X Eight Core 4.4GHz
Kingston HyperX Fury RGB 16GB (Because you've got to have that RGB!)
GeForce RTX 2060 OC Rev2 6144MB GDDR6

Could do with a better CPU and GPU I'm thinking. Not sure though.

I could go with
i9-9900K 3.6GHz (Coffee Lake)
Vulcan Z T-Force 32GB DDR4
and the same GPU RTX 2060 OC Rev2 6144MB GDDR6

Should I keep going or go in for the buy?

 

[tennis2]

I see very little reason to go with a 9th gen Intel CPU. The i7-10700K = i9-9900K.

Have you checked GPU availability?

 

[loki180]

I see very little reason to go with a 9th gen Intel CPU. The i7-10700K = i9-9900K.

Have you checked GPU availability?

Hello, sorry for late reply. I don't think I was going to go with a i9. it just sounds cool!

The GPUs are hard to get but I can get a RTX 2060.

I was thinking about going with this build. It's cheaper and should suit my needs.

Intel Coffee Lake Core i7 9700K 3.6GHz (4.9GHz Turbo) CPU,
Asus Strix Z390-F Gaming Motherboard,
16GB 3200MHz Corsair DDR4 RAM
Cooler Master Hyper Cooler
RTX 2060 OU

Good build or no good? It meets the high end spec of most games.

 

[helper800]

Hello, sorry for late reply. I don't think I was going to go with a i9. it just sounds cool!

The GPUs are hard to get but I can get a RTX 2060.

I was thinking about going with this build. It's cheaper and should suit my needs.

Intel Coffee Lake Core i7 9700K 3.6GHz (4.9GHz Turbo) CPU,
Asus Strix Z390-F Gaming Motherboard,
16GB 3200MHz Corsair DDR4 RAM
Cooler Master Hyper Cooler
RTX 2060 OU

Good build or no good? It meets the high end spec of most games.

The top build is much higher performance for your use case. The 6700xt is roughly 15-25% faster than the 2060 super. The 5600x is also about as fast as you can get for gaming as well. The qualm I have with the build is the "600W 80Plus Bronze Rated PSU."

 

[loki180]

This build
Intel Coffee Lake Core i7 9700K 3.6GHz (4.9GHz Turbo) CPU,
Asus Strix Z390-F Gaming Motherboard,
16GB 3200MHz Corsair DDR4 RAM
Cooler Master Hyper Cooler
RTX 2060 OU
is less than but it is cheaper and from what I can see it should be good enough for now.

It's not a massive upgrade to what I have but I am running a
i7 7440
GTX 1060 6gb
a mix of Ram at 12gigs
surprisingly it runs rather well. The i7 7440 does hold up pretty well.

Should be a marginal upgrade.
Can always upgrade further in the future. If needed. I do like to wait until I REALLY need to upgrade.

I'll also add, I'm a 3D artist and working in a small game dev team. Redner time can be a pain even though the above wont make a massive impact it may help a little. Hopefully better connectivity with each other particularly with the ram.

 

[tennis2]

Again the question: Why 9th gen Intel when you get more cores/threads at roughly the same price with 10th gen? An i5-11600K is nearly equivalent to an i7-9700K.

Are these pre-builts, or from a boutique builder that 9th gen is all that's on offer, or?

 

[tennis2]

surprisingly it runs rather well. The i7 7440 does hold up pretty well.

Should be a marginal upgrade.
Can always upgrade further in the future. If needed. I do like to wait until I REALLY need to upgrade.

Only you can decide what amount of improvement is worth the cost.
I can see a CPU upgrade being worthwhile.
Depending on GPU price, you may consider keeping your GTX1060 around for a while longer. Although yes, an RTX2060 is nearly 50% faster than a GTX1060, for VR, I'd think you'd want somewhere in RTX2060 Super, RTX2070, or RTX3060 level performance.

Keep in mind, this is Ultra quality, but: