Building a Virtual Reality centred PC. What MOBO to get?

wirescomingoutmyass

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Hey,

Hope you are all well.

As my Oculus Rift arrived a few days ago, I need to get ordering parts! So my thoughts are to go with the minimum gtx 970 now, if SLI is a good idea to do in 1-2 years, get another 970 or a Pascal, whichever is more appalling at the time. I do prefer going with the one card option, but you never know.

I don't really have a set budget, but I wouldn't want to go higher than £700-£800.

Requirements;

mobo needs SLI support, needs at least 3xUSB 3.0 (4 would be good).

A case which has 2xUSB 3.0 at the front would be preferred to give most distance walking in VR.

A really solid CPU, the i5 4690K looks a great choice.

A solid PSU which can handle the future wattage to come with a pascal or SLI 970's or equivalent. 600W is probably safe I would imagine.

Here is a link with what I have planned so far, any suggestions on the mobo or GPU would be much appreciated.

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/W8QCBm

Thanks for any input.
 
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Or if you wanted to go with the current Skylake platform you could go with something like this.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£201.99 @ Ebuyer)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler (£26.49 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£108.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£38.12 @ More Computers)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£68.99 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.95 @ Amazon UK)...

Geekwad

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I would really look at Xeon.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (£205.80 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97X Killer/3.1 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£99.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£29.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: PNY CS1311 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£61.24 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card (£272.28 @ Aria PC)
Case: CiT SPECTRE BLACK ATX Mid Tower Case (£31.98 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: Antec High Current Gamer 750W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£89.59 @ More Computers)
Total: £790.87
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

8-threads will really help you in multi-gpu VR, and is a capable gamer to boot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usvHezHmCJ4

You will also want a tier 1 or 2 GPU, preferably, for the best and sable performance over time:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

http://www.realhardtechx.com/index_archivos/Page362.htm

 

king3pj

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Or if you wanted to go with the current Skylake platform you could go with something like this.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£201.99 @ Ebuyer)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler (£26.49 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£108.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£38.12 @ More Computers)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£68.99 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.95 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card (£279.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: CiT SPECTRE BLACK ATX Mid Tower Case (£31.98 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: Antec HCG M 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£86.15 @ More Computers)
Total: £882.65
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-17 18:06 BST+0100
 
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