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you're gonna start seeing a lot more traditional desktop PCs around why is that it's because of virtual reality those big new headsets the oculus rift in the HTC vive required desktop PCs 99.9% of laptops will not work with them of course with that comes VR sticker shock of course the headsets are expensive $5.99 for an oculus $7.99 for vive and chancellor you're gonna need to buy an entirely new gaming ready PC for it while oculus at least says they're gonna find you a configuration that works for as little as $9.99 so if you're looking for that $9.99 oculus ready PC here it is it's the Dell XPS 8900 special edition it's regularly 1199 frequently discounted but if you get it in conjunction with an oculus rift headset even go back and buy it after the fact they give you a $200 off coupon that gets you down to the $9.99 now here's the catch this is the low end of the oculus recommended specs it's an Intel Core i5 processor it's an Nvidia 970 desktop graphics card although a 970 desktop graphic card is still plenty fast for playing you know regular PC games today just casual gaming it actually looks great playing at 1920 by 1080 you can crank a lot of even new games like fallout 4 up to ultra feels fantastic but VR is gonna be very challenging we're into VR tests on this valve has their own is it ready for VR test we've ran that and we got a cautiously optimistic score out of it it does meet the minimum specs oculus has their own tests we ran that one also that just gives you kind of a thumbs-up thumbs-down because this system was built specifically with oculus in mind it gets the thumbs up from oculus there just be aware you're buying a VR system on the low end of the recommended VR specs so I can't guarantee it's gonna stay fresh for the second or third generation of really ambitious VR games that's the Dell XPS 8900 special edition