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So we're going to have some spare money to use (probably) if our tax refund is the same as last year (it should be)
We'll put a bunch of it into savings of course but also:
Would it be more worth it to
- buy a valve index, or
- upgrade our computer from a 2200G to a 3600, get 16 GB more RAM (for a total of 32 GB), and get a nice ultrawide monitor to replace the cheap 16:9 one we have now?
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@Nine 16GB is a pretty average amount for mid-to-high-end computers, I'd thought?
We'd kinda prefer to avoid oculus. facebook is uh. not a company we want anything to do with. Valve isn't fantastic, but they're definitely not facebook bad
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@Nine I'm kinda leaning toward getting the index and also upgrading just the cpu, since that might be feasible, especially if we can sell the old cpu or something
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@Felthry This is also very true. (got the oculus like... second hand ourselves, as a way of getting a good intro to vr, and... welp, Miq's mum likes it enough to shell out the nearly 1K to get an index for the hwole house c_c; )
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@Felthry This is absolutely fair! That said, the Oculus Rift Touch is really great too, and really good, even if the screen is a little low-res, and it has problems when you face away from the cameras. (also it's a loooooot cheaper, unless you get the Rift S which is the newer model).
Granted if the only thing holding your PC back is the processor and ram (holy crap 16gig is already quite a chunk!), and you want VR, def go for the Index.