Have you tried the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset yet?\u00a0 The much anticipated device was released yesterday to a slew of reviews praising its innovative and immersive technology.\u00a0 Most reviews you read will also make it a note of mentioning its steep system requirements.\u00a0 To properly run the Oculus Rift software\u2014or other headsets like the HTC Vive for that matter\u2014you\u2019re going to need a PC with at least a recent Intel i5 or i7 processor and at least an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or AMD R9 290 desktop graphics card.<\/p>\n
American media website CNET published a guide last week discussing VR-ready gaming PCs, and among its list were the CHRONOS and the EON17-SLX Extreme Gaming Laptop<\/b><\/a>.\u00a0 In the case of the CHRONOS, CNET mentions the small size compared to \u201cbig tower models\u201d and the overclocked performance boost. As for the EON17-SLX, CNET singles out its status as \u201cone of the only laptops that can run VR hardware\u201d.<\/p>\n The CHRONOS and EON17-SLX can be customized with up to 32GB and 64GB of RAM, respectively.\u00a0 The CHRONOS supports a single 12GB NVIDIA GTX Titan X GPU while the EON17-SLX supports a VR ready 8GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 desktop GPU with G-SYNC.<\/p>\n To read CNET\u2019s complete guide to VR-ready gaming PCs, visit the following link: http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/vr-ready-gaming-pcs-a-complete-guide\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n For additional information on the ORIGIN PC CHRONOS and EON17-SLX, or to build your own today, visit www.originpc.com<\/a>.\u00a0 We sell laptops and workstations and many accessories or peripherals to enhance your gaming experience.\u00a0 Call 1-877-674-4460 to order one of our custom computers<\/b><\/a> today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have you tried the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset yet?\u00a0 The much anticipated device was released yesterday to a slew of reviews praising its innovative and immersive technology.\u00a0 Most reviews you read will also make it a note of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":2681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[81,311],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-custom-computers","tag-eon17-slx-extreme-gaming-laptop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.originpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}