PC Perspective Podcast #393 – 03/31/2016
Join us this week as we discuss the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, EVGA SC17 Notebook, UWP games and more!
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Hosts: Ryan Shrout, Jeremy Hellstrom, and Josh Walrath
Program length: 1:37:33
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Week in Review:
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0:57:35 EVGA 650W GQ Power Supply Review
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News items of interest:
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Hardware/Software Picks of the Week
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Ryan: Heat shrink tubing
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Closing/outro
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I’ll admit I haven’t watched
I’ll admit I haven’t watched the VR video completely yet — but Ryan, I hope you let Allyn check out Defense Grid 2 VR edition — it is spectacular on the Rift 🙂
The problem was getting him
The problem was getting him to stop.
ye rougue squadren was
ye rougue squadren was awesome when it came out 🙂
Definitely one of my favorite
Definitely one of my favorite N64 games!!
(Question) Hey Ryan have you
(Question) Hey Ryan have you guys tested the USB compatibility of the CV1 yet? I have heard ALOT of people have been getting incompatibility rating in the Oculus Tool and I don’t know whether these parts will actually cause trouble or if they just aren’t on Oculus’ white list or if they are just being over protective. For example I have 3930k@4.8ghz and it says my CPU isn’t good enough but even per core it is stronger than a 4590 (I got an 11 on steam VR tool) so I know they are wrong. Now it also says my USB is no good now it could be because the x79 platform is not on their radar or also it turns out if you have even one incpable usb port and 4 usable ones the tool will still fail you if you don’t disable the offending usb ports have you guys tested any older but viable platform like z77 or X79 before intel had integrated usb 3.0
i7-3930K is more than
i7-3930K is more than adequate at 4.8GHz. I’d ignore any suggestion to the otherwise.
That puts you roughly 15% faster than a stock i5-4590 per thread.
USB?
The requirements listed for Rift is 3xUSB3.0, + 1xUSB2.0
Even if you lack some of this there are PCIe cards for USB3.
Other:
I’m obviously not from PCPER, and also don’t know what the incompatibilities with the tool are, but I’m comfortable saying you shouldn’t worry about it.
I am asking because oculus is
I am asking because oculus is handling lot of the homework in a VERY POORLY just like the compatibility tool and me o selling one of mi GPU’s to make room on my motherboard for a USB adapter I DON”T need would piss me off and I would like somebody that has the tech to fully test this to see if oculus is Overprotective or just Lazy about there usb concerns I mean some have told me they are using all usb 2.0 with no problems
I am asking because oculus is
I am asking because oculus is handling lot of the homework in a VERY POORLY just like the compatibility tool and me o selling one of mi GPU’s to make room on my motherboard for a USB adapter I DON”T need would piss me off and I would like somebody that has the tech to fully test this to see if oculus is Overprotective or just Lazy about there usb concerns I mean some have told me they are using all usb 2.0 with no problems