CyberpowerPC Gamer Xtreme VR Gaming PC $679.99

Xtreme gaming!!!

[8gb ram] 🤣

This a good gaming computer?

Depends on what you need it for, which is why I was laughing at the 'XTREME GAMING' moniker. For gaming at 1080p with medium settings, this might barely do. But there's certainly nothing 'XTREME' about it.

Depends on what you need it for, which is why I was laughing at the 'XTREME GAMING' moniker. For gaming at 1080p with medium settings, this might barely do. But there's certainly nothing 'XTREME' about it. Plus, comments on Amazon say that the computer comes with only one stick of 8GB with three open slots. That means no dual channel out of the box.

If you need it for work/productivity, you're going to want to add some more RAM anyway, at least 8GB, but preferably more. Means more money out of pocket.

So, to answer your question, no I would not say that this is a good computer as sold, even at this price.


EDIT: I missed that you asked specifically about gaming, so just ignore the second part.

I own a very tiny VR company and I'm pretty familiar with hardware requirements but I can't see what makes this thing a VR computer. maybe because it's got good single core performance from the CPU and the GTX card in there can drive most simple VR games that are made and optimized well. But the minute you start throwing complex shit at it it's going to just collapse.

Being in VR and staying in the VR space is going to take an RTX card. The two main reasons are DLSS and VRSS. Until there's a competitor to this technology, a real competitor, these are the things that you're going to need to do to stay in the game. Also, Nvidia just purely has put in the money and research into white papers regarding VR. They have published scientific papers laying out their systems and patents and all of the different methods they usethat kind of investment in the technology.

Part of my company is owning a VR arcade and I would use this computer for one of our lower-level cheaper experiences. but it's hardly a premium and it's hardly extreme. However, if you don't have the ability or patience to build your own system and don't give a shit about The future or just jumping on because it's a trend, this probably would be just fine. But only 8 gigs of RAM, a three generation old video card that doesn't have the ability to do DLSS or VRSS and a CPU that has some hyperthreading but not a lot, (few VR games take full advantage of multiple cores and hyperthreading as of yet. They're just starting to.) just isn't a good investment if you're planning on getting a premium headset and playing in this space for a long time. Just my two cents.