Upgrades?
Hello, I have a bit older computer with an Intel i7 3770 CPU 3.40 GHZ, 32 GB installed ram, 64 Bit Operating system, 1.82 TB storage free and Windows 10. I also have a GTX650TI graphics card. I would like to try VR (DCS World, Flight Simulator and games like Star Wars) and would like to know if what I have is going to work and what my options are if I need to upgrade. I'm looking for that ultra realism I see and hear on YouTube. Thank you for any help you can share.
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Greetings. Honestly you're better off just upgrading to a new pre-built or a new set of parts completely. Any modern graphics card that can run VR is going to be bottlenecked heavily by the processor. It would depend on your budget what you can get at this time.sheldonfreedman said:Hello, I have a bit older computer with an Intel i7 3770 CPU 3.40 GHZ, 32 GB installed ram, 64 Bit Operating system, 1.82 TB storage free and Windows 10. I also have a GTX650TI graphics card. I would like to try VR (DCS World, Flight Simulator and games like Star Wars) and would like to know if what I have is going to work and what my options are if I need to upgrade. I'm looking for that ultra realism I see and hear on YouTube. Thank you for any help you can share.
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Thank you for your advice Ian. Time to make some new decisions:)
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If you're looking to part something out, I'd suggest looking at our PC builder on our website: https://www.microcenter.com/site/content/custom-pc-builder.aspxsheldonfreedman said:Thank you for your advice Ian. Time to make some new decisions:)
The build section also has a lot of store-built and customer builds for ideas too! https://www.microcenter.com/search/builds.aspx
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