Rift compatible vid cards

[Mister Fork]

Ok, here is my delima.

Oldest son wants to get a Rift so he can also fly with me.  He's almost saved up for it and then I remembered that his video card (nVidia 770 GTX) won't cut the mustard. Can anyone recommend a card that will work, including (gasp) Radeon?  (I haven't had a Radeon in almost 15 years)

[1stpar3]

I put a Nvidia GTX1060 in my previous PC was ASUS and had an 770 in it at time. May have been a 970? Heck I cant remember and was just last March Any way, the Power source and Base Motherboard would work with the 1060. It worked about as good as my current Asus with the GTX1070. Was only slight drop of FR between them. In VR too, With  most eye candy on The 1060 did have one little issue, it was a TIGHT FIT. I installed it myself and thought I blew something up, as couldnt get it to run after. Let a PC DOC look at it and seems with the size difference of the 2 cards I didnt have all the connections in the motherboard space/for card, connected...was easy fix and didnt charge me anything to get it hooked up CORRECTLY I went ahead and bought the New PC on anticipation that I really screwed the pooch on the attempted self install

[SlipKnt]

Taken off the Oculus Rift Website:

Recommended Specs
Graphics Card
NVIDIA GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 480 or greater

Alternative Graphics Card
NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD Radeon R9 290 or greater

CPU
Intel i5-4590 / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X or greater

Memory
8GB+ RAM

Video Output
Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output

USB Ports
3x USB 3.0 ports plus 1x USB 2.0 port

OS
Windows 7 SP1 64 bit or newer

Minimum Specs
Graphics Card
NVIDIA GTX 1050Ti / AMD Radeon RX 470 or greater

Alternative Graphics Card
NVIDIA GTX 960 / AMD Radeon R9 290 or greater

CPU
Intel i3-6100 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200, FX4350 or greater

Memory
8GB+ RAM

Video Output
Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output

USB Ports
1x USB 3.0 port, plus 2x USB 2.0 ports

OS
Windows 8.1 or newer

[JimmyC]

Minimum Specs
Graphics Card
NVIDIA GTX 1050Ti / AMD Radeon RX 470 or greater

Alternative Graphics Card
NVIDIA GTX 960 / AMD Radeon R9 290 or greater
....
 got the nvida Geforce gtx 960 4gigs 
would that run occulus rift ok, kind of thought I would need to upgrade card but prices have sky rocketed so not sure now...
any thoughts would be most helpful
<S> Jimmy

also any idea when 2nd gen will come out, better resolution?

[Kanth]

Jimmy i wouldn't go with the minimum.

I did the GTX 970 before i got my new card and technically it works..but any time i was flying in a buff group in FSO or attacking a buff group, OR flying near ships, or flying at a base that had ack flying..it was slide show time. I'd wait if i were you and get a better card.

[JimmyC]

thank you, the news i thought I would hear but didn`t want to hear.. cheers, 
new card and oculus pumps the whole venture way up, esp with card prices now.