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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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@Felthry Fair warning on the Valve Index, you can't just... buy one right now. You can order one, and when it's ready to be fulfilled, they contact you to request payment, and... it's got liek a waiting time of around 8 weeks by all accounts (source I just ordered one c_c; )

By all accounts though they really are the best VR system available... and holy hell there's some amazing VR games.

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@Nine yeah, I know there's a wait to get a valve index, but it's unlikely there will ever *not* be

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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.

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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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