Hello,... I am putting together a high-end VR system, and have a fairly general idea of what I want... but during my selection process, several questions have arisen... for those who are willing to answer, please - PLEASE - explain "WHY" you are making your suggestion... just saying: "I see you want to go with product A,... but you should go with product B, it's much better." does not help me at all... Please be specific with your answers as to what is better, and why it is better.
Thank you in advance to everyone who responds...
So, this is the general system that I am looking at putting together so far:
For cooling: XSPC Custom Water Cooling Kit with EX360 Radiator + D5 Pump + XSPC RayStorm Copper Cold Plate (3 x Standard 120MM Fans)
For RAM: 16 GB [8 GB X2] DDR4-4000
For Power Supply: 850 Watt - Standard 80 PLUS Gold (should I go for a 1,000 watt power supply?)
For Main Hard Drive: I am looking at a 1 TB ADATA XPG SX8200PNP M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD - Is this a good idea, or a bad one? I don't know how I feel about using a M.2 SSD as a primary drive...
For Processor: I was looking at the Intel i9-9900 processor... and noticed that there is also one with a "k"... I read in an article that only a processor with a "k" at the end can be overclocked...
1. Is that true?
2. If that is true, then if I pay for an overclocking service, does that mean that the i9-9900k can be increased beyond 5.0ghz?
3. Also, assuming that it is true, does that mean that the regular i9-9900 is already at 5.0ghz out of the box?
I was also looking at the i9-9900x ... This looks like a good processor - with more cores and more memory... but it also seems to be slower in the processing "ghz" - can it be overclocked, or not?...
For a video card: I am looking at the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti - 11GB GDDR6 - ASUS ROG STRIX (VR-Ready)... but I don't know alot about the differences between GPUs... I would be willing to spend up too about another $500, if it meant a much better GPU... but since I have to clue which ones are "better" for VR, I do not know what to look at... Any suggestions with specific technical reasons for the suggestion? (I was told by a friend that the ROG STRIX was a really good one because it has three fans to help cool it)
For the Motherboard: This part has had me tied up in knots... I have been looking at a couple different ones, but the ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-H GAMING -- RGB, Gb LAN, USB 3.1, and 8-Channel HD Audio - is what I am currently eyeballing... I know NOTHING about motherboards... nothing at all... Is this a good board?... Is there a better one for somewhere around the same price-point? (+/- $100.00) There are a few other ROG STRIX Motherboards, but I do not know why any of the others would be "better" than this one...
I'm pretty sure that I do not need a sound card, because the motherboard has 8.1 hd sound intergrated... but what about a network card?... I believe the motherboard comes with lan connection, but I don't see wireless anywhere in its description, does that mean that I should opt for a network card?
Did I miss anything?
Thank you in advance to everyone who responds...
So, this is the general system that I am looking at putting together so far:
For cooling: XSPC Custom Water Cooling Kit with EX360 Radiator + D5 Pump + XSPC RayStorm Copper Cold Plate (3 x Standard 120MM Fans)
For RAM: 16 GB [8 GB X2] DDR4-4000
For Power Supply: 850 Watt - Standard 80 PLUS Gold (should I go for a 1,000 watt power supply?)
For Main Hard Drive: I am looking at a 1 TB ADATA XPG SX8200PNP M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD - Is this a good idea, or a bad one? I don't know how I feel about using a M.2 SSD as a primary drive...
For Processor: I was looking at the Intel i9-9900 processor... and noticed that there is also one with a "k"... I read in an article that only a processor with a "k" at the end can be overclocked...
1. Is that true?
2. If that is true, then if I pay for an overclocking service, does that mean that the i9-9900k can be increased beyond 5.0ghz?
3. Also, assuming that it is true, does that mean that the regular i9-9900 is already at 5.0ghz out of the box?
I was also looking at the i9-9900x ... This looks like a good processor - with more cores and more memory... but it also seems to be slower in the processing "ghz" - can it be overclocked, or not?...
For a video card: I am looking at the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti - 11GB GDDR6 - ASUS ROG STRIX (VR-Ready)... but I don't know alot about the differences between GPUs... I would be willing to spend up too about another $500, if it meant a much better GPU... but since I have to clue which ones are "better" for VR, I do not know what to look at... Any suggestions with specific technical reasons for the suggestion? (I was told by a friend that the ROG STRIX was a really good one because it has three fans to help cool it)
For the Motherboard: This part has had me tied up in knots... I have been looking at a couple different ones, but the ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-H GAMING -- RGB, Gb LAN, USB 3.1, and 8-Channel HD Audio - is what I am currently eyeballing... I know NOTHING about motherboards... nothing at all... Is this a good board?... Is there a better one for somewhere around the same price-point? (+/- $100.00) There are a few other ROG STRIX Motherboards, but I do not know why any of the others would be "better" than this one...
I'm pretty sure that I do not need a sound card, because the motherboard has 8.1 hd sound intergrated... but what about a network card?... I believe the motherboard comes with lan connection, but I don't see wireless anywhere in its description, does that mean that I should opt for a network card?
Did I miss anything?