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Hi guys, I need help upgrading my old gaming pc to be VR compatible my current specs are:
CORSAIR Gaming Series GS700 700W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS
MSI Radeon HD 6950 DirectX 11 R6950 Twin Frozr III PE/OC 2GB
Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge Quad-Core 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost)
SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 ST1000DM005/HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
G.SKILL Sniper Low Voltage Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3L 1600

I am currently looking into buying an SSD
Samsung 850 EVO - 500GB - 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD
to make it boot faster. I am also looking into buying a new graphics card with a pretty high budget of 1000 dollars, I was looking at the MSI gtx 1080 gaming z but I dont know if this rig can handle that. Also if I would need anything else to be VR ready such as more RAM. Thanks I really appreciate the help!
 
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Your 2500k should still hold its own, if you wanted to save money you can simply upgrade your graphics card to something like a 480.
If you have the money a 6600k, a nice Z170 motherboard (ASUS Pro gaming for example), some DDR4 memory and a higher end GPU like a 1070 or 1080 would be a massive increase.
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240GB should enough for SSD, go with GTX 1080/GTX 1070, up ram to 16GB. I see the minimum spec for VR is i5 4590, GTX 970, and 8GB ram. Maybe you want to upgrade your cpu also 😀
 
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Thanks for the fast response!
what cpu should i get that would be compatible with my mobo?
 
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I think 2600k it's good, actually i5 is good too for VR, but it's just minimun. Or if you have some budget, go up to Haswell or Skylake.
 
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I think your mobo has seen the end of its life.

Get the 4690k plus a budget cooler (then you can keep your 8 GB ram), Z97 mobo, start overclocking the CPU now.

Pair them with the value-for-money 1070 GPU (if you are doing 1440p), or RX 480 (if you are doing 1080p), and Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB, and you are good for another 3,4 years.

I recently upped my 1 x 8 GB budget ram to 2 x 8 GB Vengeance Ram mostly because this summer's photography has been busy. In those few hours when I really have time to game, I noticed only slight improvement on average but those 1% minimum fps moments did go away.

In 3,4 years throw away your 8 GB ram, 4690k, Z97 mobo and upgrade again once and for all.
 
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There is zero reason to buy haswell. Go skylake if you need to upgrade your processor.
The 4690k and 6600k are the same price: http://pcpartpicker.com/products/compare/intel-cpu-bx80646i54690k,intel-cpu-bx80662i56600k/
LGA 1150 and 1151 boards are near identical in price: http://pcpartpicker.com/products/compare/asus-motherboard-z170a,asus-motherboard-z97a/
DDR3 and DDR4 prices are the same: http://pcpartpicker.com/products/compare/geil-memory-gev38gb1600c9dc,gskill-memory-f42133c15d8gvr/

Skylake offers a more versatile platform, DDR4 speeds, and 5-15% increase IPC.
 
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Thanks for the response. So are you saying that I should buy a new mobo, proccessor, and RAM or are these suggestions for if I was going to buy them.

Also I was just wondering on your input for the GPU do you think the gtx 1070 is good enough or should I get the 1080 for VR. I also was thinking of waiting for MSI to release their Z series 1080s
 
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Your 2500k should still hold its own, if you wanted to save money you can simply upgrade your graphics card to something like a 480.
If you have the money a 6600k, a nice Z170 motherboard (ASUS Pro gaming for example), some DDR4 memory and a higher end GPU like a 1070 or 1080 would be a massive increase.
 
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Would you say that the gtx 1080 is worth the much higher price tag than the gtx 1070 or should i just save the money and buy the gtx 1070?
 
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He can keep his ram if he go 4690k. That's $45 CAD.

He can pick up a Gigabyte Z97 board for $30 CAD cheaper than a Z170.

DDR4 ram gives you 1-2% boost while the 6600k gives you 5-10% boost.

It boil down to where he shop.

Or he can get the RX 480 now, wait another 12-18 months until 2500k went under minimum requirement of current games then upgrade the whole platform. Then get another RX 480 to go crossfire.
 
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