P PDeuce Commendable May 17, 2016 3 0 1,510 Dec 19, 2016 #1 can an e5 1660 3.3 ghz with 32 megs ram be able to run vr? what processor i5, i7 is it equal to? I know is over 4 years old but is it still worth keeping ?
can an e5 1660 3.3 ghz with 32 megs ram be able to run vr? what processor i5, i7 is it equal to? I know is over 4 years old but is it still worth keeping ?
Solution kanewolf Dec 19, 2016 An E5-1660 would be equivalent to an i7-3960X (without the unlocked multiplier) http://ark.intel.com/products/64620/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-1660-15M-Cache-3_30-GHz-0_0-GTs-Intel-QPI http://ark.intel.com/products/63696/Intel-Core-i7-3960X-Processor-Extreme-Edition-15M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz
An E5-1660 would be equivalent to an i7-3960X (without the unlocked multiplier) http://ark.intel.com/products/64620/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-1660-15M-Cache-3_30-GHz-0_0-GTs-Intel-QPI http://ark.intel.com/products/63696/Intel-Core-i7-3960X-Processor-Extreme-Edition-15M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz
kanewolf Titan Moderator May 29, 2013 38,318 3,654 156,790 Dec 19, 2016 Solution #2 An E5-1660 would be equivalent to an i7-3960X (without the unlocked multiplier) http://ark.intel.com/products/64620/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-1660-15M-Cache-3_30-GHz-0_0-GTs-Intel-QPI http://ark.intel.com/products/63696/Intel-Core-i7-3960X-Processor-Extreme-Edition-15M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz Upvote 0 Downvote Solution
An E5-1660 would be equivalent to an i7-3960X (without the unlocked multiplier) http://ark.intel.com/products/64620/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-1660-15M-Cache-3_30-GHz-0_0-GTs-Intel-QPI http://ark.intel.com/products/63696/Intel-Core-i7-3960X-Processor-Extreme-Edition-15M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz
Barty1884 Retired Moderator Apr 16, 2015 22,254 1,354 108,740 Dec 19, 2016 #3 It's not 'officially supported' for a lot of VR applications, but neither are older i7's & i5's which work without any issue. I would suspect you should be fine from a CPU standpoint, but it'll depend on your GPU. Upvote 0 Downvote
It's not 'officially supported' for a lot of VR applications, but neither are older i7's & i5's which work without any issue. I would suspect you should be fine from a CPU standpoint, but it'll depend on your GPU.