Help me build a vr pc, just bought a HTC vive this morning.

Virtual reality is a new passion I intend to pursue so resale on an item such as a pc is not a factor. The thing is that I plan to keep upgrading as new technologys hit the market so I want to factor this into what I am building.

I think the motherboard with adequate room for power supply, dual graphics cqrd room and other things like ram and harddrive space is a must. I dont have a clue about overclocking and thats a big headache so I will need a large tower with proper ventilation.

When is better cpu's coming? I have been reading about these new pascal gpu's but I cannot see them being released before may.

RamZet wrote: »

Come visit us at EVGA.com/forums. It is an awesome forum and 100 people will line up to help you build a PC.

I have actualy aquired so much information and read countless amount of forum posts, web pages and watched a ton of build videos on youtube. What seemed very alienating when I started the thread has become very familiar to me now. If I get a Nvidia card then I may join the forum for advice on best parts and more info on overclocking.

I was shocking about the information on intel with the way they are going about their business. Many people learned how to overclock the non K series chips and then nvidia is releasing these micro code updates and rendering the chips dead with forced updates

After further research about drivers and life span of the cards etc I have went back to the 980ti as my pickfor the build. The price is now at $2050 so thats like nearly 3k so far,, I keep thinking about the audio gear I could be buying for that amount and it turns my stomach.

I did research into the cpu cooler and found that this fan hits the same benchmarks as a liquid cooler but the main attraction is that it has lower decibels compared to other fan and liquid coolers.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00L7UZMAK/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00L7UZMAK&linkCode=as2&tag=ad07a-20&linkId=5O5GLSCPQFOK3JMR

They build them at your expense, I was checking the razor norebooks and those are $1800. when you add the upgrade extrenal gpu box your talking $400 plus another $660 for the graphics card to go inside.

Sami that is a good graphics card however the noise is really important. The cards that I have been looking into is the various nvidia gtx 980 ti offerings with the lowest decibels. I dont have a 4 display so I am looking into something cheaper. The reason is that from what I am gathering on past trends and current architecture that the card thats going to beat this for price wont be around for 9 months.

This is the cards I am going for but!..... its went up in price by $97 in the last 10 hours as I have the build in my amazon card and just checked. I hope it goes back down as amazon is out of stock.

$2000

Here is the card I am I going for when it drops back down to around $620. This is the silent low decibel model.http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-Installed-Backplate-Graphics-06G-P4-4995-KR/dp/B00YDAYOK0?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=ox_sc_act_title_1&smid=A3LGJ9ZB5RSN9T

I already linked the cpu fan for but I will need some low profile ram for the motherboard because of clearance issue with that cpu fan in there.
http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Technology-2666MHz-HX426C15FBK4-16/dp/B00TPQPOIS?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=ox_sc_act_title_3&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

For the cpu I am going to go with this intel model because of how cheap its gotten and its a beast but it will need a different motherboard to fit because of how large it is.
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-i7-5820K-Haswell-E-Processor-BX80648I75820K/dp/B00MMLXIKY?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=ox_sc_act_title_6&smid=AQJGMN2V76O30

Here is the mother boardhttp://www.amazon.com/MSI-Desktop-Motherboard-Chipset-LGA2011-3/dp/B00V4V4SFC?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=ox_sc_act_title_7&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

Here is the SSDhttp://www.amazon.com/Samsung-850-EVO-3-5-Inch-MZ-N5E500BW/dp/B00TGIW1XG?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=ox_sc_act_title_5&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

I will be storing alot of games so I need 2 terabytes of space and for storage therem is no advantage of going with an expensive ssd so its a hdd for cheap and has near the same speed as an SSDhttp://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST2000DM001/dp/B005T3GRN2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=ox_sc_act_title_4&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

This is a pretty nice 1000watt power supply for future proofinghttp://www.amazon.com/XFX-PRO1000W-Platinum-Compatible-P11000BELX/dp/B0067G6PA0?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=ox_sc_act_title_9&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

The case that allnthese bits'n bobs are going to go in is mayben the Razor edition nzxt case because it huge and looks like xbox with thenblack and greenhttp://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RJKXCDG/ref=twister_B019C7RYL4?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

I have fallen in love however with the lanli pc08 but thats when you start loosing it and spending money on crap thats not going to make a diff, besides the lanli is more for liquid cooling setupshttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811112471

I checked the prices on that and amazon aint far of for the i7 I picked so its only a $27 diff. We dont have any decent pc stores in fargo at all.

The main thing that puts me off with AMD is the new cards they have coming out this summer. This means that they will not put alot of effort and resources into optimising the drivers via updates to get more performance. Nvidia does not have new cards coming soon so I would guess they will keep throwing everything they have at those 980ti cards because nothing new is coming anytime soon.