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saving up enough for a new $5.99 oculus rift or $7.99 HTC vive virtual reality headset it's really only the beginning stepping up to VR also requires a very specific set of compatible computer components and to be honest you're probably just gonna have to buy a brand new desktop PC now the rock-bottom price for a new VR ready desktop is about $9.99 that's after a bundled discount from oculus if you buy a headset and a desktop together you can get something like the Dell XPS 8900 for $9.99 but it only just meets the very minimum required specs if you're looking to spend more well really the sky's the limit and we've tested pcs that go from $9.99 for that Dell to north of $4,000 for the Falcon Northwest Tiki other systems were testing right now include the Origin PC Chronos and the Aeon 17s LX that's one of the only V already laptops there's the Lenovo Y 900 the Acer predator and the velocity Microraptor which helpfully puts its VR connection port right on the front panel now all of these systems that we've tested can run the first generation of VR games and experiences and about 90 frames per second per eye that's the VR standard but if you want to make sure you're ready for the VR games of next year and the year after the sweet spot it's really around $2,000 and that's gonna get you an Intel Core i7 CPU and a single nvidia geforce 980ti