First Oculus released a Rift compatibility tool, along with Oculus-ready PCs, and now HP - in partnership with HTC - has revealed VR-ready PC builds designed to support the Vive SteamVR headset. The two builds fall under the HP Envy Phoenix brand, with one running an AMD GPU, and the other, an NVIDIA card. The actual components are rather impressive:
HP ENVY Phoenix 860-170VR
- CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K (Skylake) 4.0 GHz w/HP ENVY Liquid Cooling Solution
- GPU: AMD Radeon R9 390X (8 GB)
- RAM: 16 GB DDR4 at 2133MHz
- Storage: 2TB 7200 rpm SATA Hard Drive
- Optical: SuperMulti DVD Burner
- Wireless Networking: HP Wireless 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac 1×1 with Bluetooth
- Power Supply: 600W
- OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit
- Price: US$1700
HP ENVY Phoenix 860-170VX
- CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K (Skylake) 4.0 GHz w/HP ENVY Liquid Cooling Solution
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980Ti (6 GB)
- RAM: 24 GB DDR4 2133MHz
- Storage: 2TB 7200 rpm SATA Hard Drive
- Optical: SuperMulti DVD Burner
- Wireless Networking: HP Wireless 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac 1×1 with Bluetooth
- Power Supply: 500 W
- OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit
- Price: US$2000
Both PCs feature customisable LED lighting on their cases, along with liquid cooling. Unlike Oculus and its hardware partners, HP has not announced a bundle discount if the PC is purchased at the same time as a Vive headset, so the builds are considerably more expensive even without the HMD's still-unknown price accounted for.
