4k, VR, Water cooling with this Build?

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What we have here is failure to communicate.
It's quite simple. There's 2 very large costs. The pc and water cooling. On a €1200 max budget, you'll not get a pc that's very capable of VR and watercooling, you'll absolutely have to choose 1 priority over the other. It's entirely possible to get an extremely quite system without watercooling, but impossible to get a good performer with one. So pick. Either silence or performance.
Personally, I'd go with okcnaline's last build, but change out the case, aim at something much more suited to watercooling, then in the future, once budget allows, add the watercooling. Until then, just deal with a slightly noisier pc. Could also move up to a gtx1080, depending on the budget allowances.

jowen3400

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For vr a 1080 ti is throwing money away? LOL wow you need to really learn about VR. VR is all GPU. Remember you are rendering 3 screens, one for each eye and the desktop. All need to be 90 FPS. The 1080 ti will have no dropped or copied frames. That is the ONLY card out side of the Titan X and the Xp that can do that. There are 3 card that have 0 copied frames. the 1080 ti Titan X and the Titan Xp.
 

Karadjgne

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What we have here is failure to communicate.
It's quite simple. There's 2 very large costs. The pc and water cooling. On a €1200 max budget, you'll not get a pc that's very capable of VR and watercooling, you'll absolutely have to choose 1 priority over the other. It's entirely possible to get an extremely quite system without watercooling, but impossible to get a good performer with one. So pick. Either silence or performance.
Personally, I'd go with okcnaline's last build, but change out the case, aim at something much more suited to watercooling, then in the future, once budget allows, add the watercooling. Until then, just deal with a slightly noisier pc. Could also move up to a gtx1080, depending on the budget allowances.
 
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jowen3400

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You build was a bit incomplete. This is a Full build for JUST over 1500 via partpicker

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($209.99 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($26.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard ($88.33 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (1 x 16GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($124.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung - 960 EVO 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($127.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.44 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Founders Edition Video Card ($659.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair - Carbide 400C ATX Mid Tower Case ($97.98 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($74.88 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit ($63.99 @ My Choice Software)
Total: $1523.46
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-05 13:05 EDT-0400