Gadgetory

the rise of virtual reality headsets like the HTC vive and oculus rift has led to a new arms race in gaming desktops heating up a category that we haven't talked much about in the last few years adding fuel to the fire is a new generation of graphics cards that's the most important component in the gaming or VR ready PC NVIDIA has the new geforce gtx 1080 which costs around six hundred dollars and you can already get it in systems or mortgage in PC alienware digital storm Falcon Northwest acer velocity micro and others for this roundup we're testing everything from single card desktop that costs around two thousand dollars to towers with overclocked CPUs and dual GPUs running in sli that can cost up to six thousand dollars one of my highlights was being able to test a couple of these new all-in-one desktops with giant curved 34 inch screens the verdict is that these new cards part of the first wave of PC components at least partly designed with VR in mind offer amazing performance a single Nvidia 1080 card bought separately or as part of a new gaming desktop is expensive yes but not outrageously so and the pair of duel card systems we tested showed us big boost in our tests but keep in mind you can always start with a single graphics card system and then add a second card later on if your PC case has room for us