Let's talk hardware.

Not sure if there is already a post about this, but I wanted to see what everyone is running and talk about suggestions.
Never hurts to take a survey of what people have and what actually works, so let's have at it.
Intel Core i7 4790K @ 4.00GHz 46 °C
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 933MHz (10-11-10-30)
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z97X-UD3H-BK-CF (SOCKET 0) 28 °C
VS278 ([email protected])
VE228 ([email protected])
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti (EVGA) 43 °C
USB 3.0 x9
Storage
232GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250G SCSI Disk Device (SSD) 36 °C
931GB Seagate ST1000DX 001-1NS162 SCSI Disk Device (SATA) 34 °C
931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EADS-22M2B0 (SATA) 35 °C
1863GB Seagate ST2000DX001-1NS164 (SATA) 35 °C
3726GB Jmicron SCSI Disk Device (USB (SATA)) 34 °C
Never hurts to take a survey of what people have and what actually works, so let's have at it.
Intel Core i7 4790K @ 4.00GHz 46 °C
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 933MHz (10-11-10-30)
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z97X-UD3H-BK-CF (SOCKET 0) 28 °C
VS278 ([email protected])
VE228 ([email protected])
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti (EVGA) 43 °C
USB 3.0 x9
Storage
232GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250G SCSI Disk Device (SSD) 36 °C
931GB Seagate ST1000DX 001-1NS162 SCSI Disk Device (SATA) 34 °C
931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EADS-22M2B0 (SATA) 35 °C
1863GB Seagate ST2000DX001-1NS164 (SATA) 35 °C
3726GB Jmicron SCSI Disk Device (USB (SATA)) 34 °C
Comments
i5 4670K @ 4.1
16 Dual-channel DDRS @ 800. 10 10 10 27
MSI Z87-G45 Gaming motherboard
HIS R9 290x until the polaris or pascal
USB 3.0 x?(at least 3)
2 monitors setup
Storage, about 4TB in 4 drives full of porn and one SSD drive for Windows and a few games.
No Omni or Rift... yet
But I'm expecting to build a new PC with a mid-range i7 and GTX 1070 later this year, just for VR.
$374.99 @ SuperBiiz
$79.99 @ Newegg
$6.89 @ OutletPC
$162.98 @ Newegg
$195.00 @ Amazon
$181.95 @ SuperBiiz
$119.99 @ SuperBiiz
$119.99 @ SuperBiiz
$119.99 @ SuperBiiz
$639.99 @ Amazon
$215.98 @ Newegg
$19.24 @ Amazon
$19.24 @ Amazon
$13.45 @ OutletPC
$13.45 @ OutletPC
A few notes:
The Samsung 950 is unbelievably fast. With no other drives enabled in the bios it takes 8 seconds from cold boot to chrome open and usable. Worth every penny.
My case is the 4U22EPS650 4U Rackmount Server Case I love this case. I did a custom paint job on the interior as well as custom cable sleeving for the case front panel power/LED cables. (Yes i know its a rackmount case with no window and no one will ever see it unless i show them, but i have been trying to keep busy waiting for VR!
As for temperatures my CPU has never been over 30C and my GPU nas never hit 40C my Nerdroom is in a shockingly cold basement. I am sure those temps will increase a bit once summer hits where I am.
I've been giving some serious consideration to building a 6700k rig myself and either relegating my current computer to the task of music production, processor intensive but almost completely indifferent to graphical power, or giving it to my video editor as a more powerful video editing tool than the AMD processor she currently uses. I hesitate on the latter because I know that the reason my computer seems to stand up so well to video editing(it's almost twice as fast at rendering) comes from the combination of the 980ti and Intel 4790k. First I need to see that the fps gain will be substantial enough to justify another $600.00 in parts. I work in electronic scrap, so I get quite a bit of hardware for nothing. Pic related, it's where your computer will end up: crushed together with a bunch of other computers on a ship bound for China, Japan, or Belgium.
Its doubtful you would see much of an improvement, if any, from moving from a 4790K to a 6700K. The 4790K is more than capable of providing calls to a 980ti fast enough for the GPU to still be the bottleneck. one acception to this are CPU heavy games, such as City Skylines. The only reason I went with the 6700K is because I was using a 6 year old AMD CPU, that sucked when I got it, I actually cant even remember which one it is LOL.
I will snap some picks and post them when I get home. One think I forgot to mention is the that the only piece if hardware i don't currently have for that build is the 980ti. I currently have a 660 which compliments the shiftiness of my CPU LOL. I was holding out, hopping that Nvidea was going to release Pascal before the Vive came out but its not looking like that is the case. So I will be biting the bullet and buying the Gigabyte 980ti in the next week or so.
No interest for 12 months when you buy something as expensive as the 980Ti, and they stand behind their products.
i76700K @4.0G
16GB DDR4
ASUS PRO MB
video card will be some kind of Rift compliant thing once I have the Rift in my house (waiting until then as new video cards should be announced soon)
storage is a little weird.. I've got 10TB in the house overall but it's spread between storage LAN, and local disk.. I'm going to get myself a new 500GB SSD sometime soon - for performance
However I still install all my games to a 2T mechanical hard drive as there really is little benefit as @gleamingsands said.
Kind of like our servers at work that take six minutes to get out of the BIOS. Five seconds or fifty seconds to boot the OS from there doesn't much matter.
CPU: i7-6700k
GPU: GTX 1080 (or whatever its name will be)
Mobo: ASUS Z170-A
PSU: Corsair AX860i
RAM: CORSAIR 16GB DDR4 2400, CAS 10, CMD16GX4M2B2400C10
Storage: 950 pro and 850 EVO + other drives
Liquid Cooling: Corsair H80i V2
Case: Corsair 760T (white)
Sound Card: (yes, I still use one) Asus Xonar D1
Peripherals:
Flight Stick: Logitech G940
Wheels: Logitech G27
Keyboard: Logitech G19s
Mouse: Logitech G700s
Head Phones: Steelseries H
Controller: PS3 and Navigation
Okay, that's mine. Everyone seems to be ready for VR--now we just need the Omni.
Days till Shipment :7
Days till the family forget who I am: 97
@kzintzi. You should start a countdown thread--it'd be entertaining
@Kijutsu. And it will give me time to figure out how to afford some of that stuff
@gleamingsands. There's a lot of hype for Pascal. Hope it's a reality.
@Sponge101 VR is not EXPENSIVE, its VERY EXPENSIVE! Yes I have a 680. Which can still play most games on medium to high settings at 60FPS. One thing that everyone in the VR industry no matter what company they are from or HMD camp, agrees with is that FPS needs to be 90 at the minimum. I do believe that a GTX 970 or AMD equivalent will be the minimum spec. I have decided to get 980ti and not get the first gen Pascal. The 980ti is a known quantity, its known how well it performs and what it costs and the type of experience it will give you. We know nothing about Pascal, its all speculation. One thing that bothers me is that all there performance measurements from Nvidea are all per watt performance. Well how many watts are these cards going to pull? It is also fairly clear that the first cards will use GDDR5X and not HBM. Again however this is still all speculation.