Oculus Rift Ready CPU?..

[Luca1]

So, the Oculus site recommends an i5 4590 CPU.

The PC checker tool from Oculus says that my Xeon 5670 is under spec'd for the Rift, however, it doesn't take in to account I am running it OC'd at 4.2Ghz.

As far as I can tell when searching, the 4590 is slightly slower than the i73930k.

Also my Xeon at its current OC is mildly slower than the 3930k (cinebench results).

I know my search is flawed comparing Xeons vs i5's vs i7's etc.. But can anyone tell me, will I need to upgrade my CPU and mobo for the Rift?

Or is it looking like my OC'd Xeon 5670 will cut it?

Cheers!

 

[emmjawsX]

I can see the hardware requirements being different for each game, running a relatively low poly indie title on the rift is obviously going to be vastly less resource demanding than something with witcher 3 / gta v level graphics. It was mentioned there will be reviews prior to a pre-order lock in date and hardware sites would be mad not to include benchmarks so it's probably best to take a wait and see approach.

 

[Luca1]

I can see the hardware requirements being different for each game, running a relatively low poly indie title on the rift is obviously going to be vastly less resource demanding than something with witcher 3 / gta v level graphics. It was mentioned there will be reviews prior to a pre-order lock in date and hardware sites would be mad not to include benchmarks so it's probably best to take a wait and see approach.

Fair call. I'll see how I go then. Thanks