Question regarding AGA and Oculus compatibility.

So I have one of the original R1 Alienware 15s with 970M, 16GB ram, and a M.2 HDD etc.

As I am really interested in virtual reality, I have been leaning on buying the Oculus rift. But, since my 970M is to weak (I really regret not getting the 980M now...) I am planning on buying the AGA.

Question: Will I have any stability issues in using the AGA with oculus rift on my A15? Will it work just fine? I am a bit worried about the processor as well, is a 4710H good enough?

Thanks.

 

I would expect it to work. But no on eon this forum has unfortunately tried it yet.

I do know some people have the DK2 running on the laptops itself.

 

Thanks for the response, I have also read up a bit, and it seems there are some workarounds to get it to work if you use the AGA with an external monitor and you plug the occlus directly into the back of the video card.. I just have one more follow up question.

Assuming that it works, I wonder will my CPU become a bottleneck? It only being an i7 4710HQ... I would hate to invest in an AGA along with a good video card only for it to fail under the CPU... Thoughts?

 

VR is definitely much more graphics intensive than cpu. As long as you're running a geforce 970 or higher you should be fine. Even doubly so if you get a pascal chip.

 

I dont think it will to be honest. I ran the test vive VR on a 6700hq which is only mildly more quick and it passed the test in terms of speed.

 

I don't think that's the case. There are a few users on AlienwareArena who have tested the setup with DK2 already.