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We’re not quite at the point where we can put a 480GB or 512GB SATA SSD in a system where a 240GB drive would have gone before, but we’re getting close. Solid-state storage continues its downward march in price.
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Even so, the looming proposition of newer, shinier graphics cards makes life as a PC builder a little tricky right now, especially after GPU fabrication’s long stay at the 28-nm process node. We don’t know precisely when chips from either company will hit the market, and we also don’t know what sort of performance classes those companies will be targeting with their new graphics cards at first. AMD has said that it’ll be releasing new graphics-processing units built on next-gen fabrication processes later this year, and Nvidia has strongly hinted that it’ll be following suit. We’re still building with the same Radeons and GeForces that we have in past Guides right now. If your system falls short of those specs, it may finally be time to pull out the credit card. Those specs are all the same or better than the baseline Oculus and HTC recommend. Those systems already included a GeForce GTX 970 or Radeon R9 290 graphics card, a Core i5-4590 or better CPU, and 8GB of RAM or more. If you built a Sweet Spot system from our System Guides dating all the way back to December 2014, you already have the CPU, graphics card, and RAM you’ll need to power a Rift or Vive. If you’re wondering whether your PC is VR-capable, we have some good news. Whatever your skill level, we’re here to help. A number of people might even be stepping up to the PC-building plate for the first time. HTC’s Vive and Oculus’ Rift VR headsets are here now, and we expect many people will be dusting off their PC-building chops to put together new systems to power those headsets. Since our last update, the basic shape of the hardware that goes inside today’s PCs hasn’t changed much, but there’s plenty going on outside the case. Welcome to a new edition of The Tech Report’s System Guide.