Hello there,
But these dont fit on my motherboard.
or am i wrong?
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I see this too. I am playing SkyrimVR at 56 fps and ElieteDangerous at 40 fps without any issues.
Edit: And no Smart Smoothing
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You do NOT need to upgrade.
Your 7700K should clock to 4.7GHz on air and 5.1 delidded on water (as mine did).
What many do not grasp is that our cpu does limit in CPU bound scenarios. So a game running in 720p will be limited on the 7700K to 30% less FPS than on a 9900k. That is letās say 200fps vs 260fps. But that is (specially in VR) not the way we play - we need huge resolutions to fill the fov of the pimax. So you are playing in a GPU limiting scenario.
I run my second 2080ti in the simrig with an old 3770k (delidded and water cooled to reach 4.6+GHz) and can tell you from experience that it still does not limit my 2080ti in this use case (iRacing,SC,R3E, PC2,etc.)
If I run the integrated benchmark in intels own over lock utility, my 3770k scores only half of my 7700K. Good marketing from intel. You easily get the desire to upgrade the whole platform after benchingā¦
What is true is that more and more games use more cores better and better, so new games I see benefit from having more cores. This is why I wait until second half of this year to upgrade (foremost my simrig) to the new Zen in 7nm (Ryzen 3xxx?).
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I agree with this. Higher resolution definitely helps motion sickness/hz/frame rate.
I am not sensible to motion sickness, ocasionally I experience it with Rift or PSVR, however with Pimax 5k+, even under extreme situations I did not feel any sicknessā¦ Higher resolution is a real advantage I believe.
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Hi
I will receive my 5k+ till the end of this week 
My config :
I7 4770
RTX 2080ti
16gb RAM GDDR3
As I understand your experience, my configuration could work without a problem (bottleneck)?
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Possibly\probably not. It was the botyleneck calculator reccommendation. Going by early posts looks like i7 7700k was the top cpu for your board?
Quick question have a issue were I am getting flickering below 90 hertz,now would the new brainwarp tech
overide that if the hertz are doubled instead of the defacto ones set now,would they be reset in a firmware
upgrade you think ?
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Not really sure. With smart smoothing it from my understanding simply duplicates a previous frame & shows it.
Where as v2.0 BW is using an displays slightly out of sync. Kind of like blanking.
Tbh still need to install v111. But it would likely also depends on oneās sensitivity to flicker.
With more variable fps opposed to stable fps might be something to explore. How do you find TV say at 60hz vs Trumotion at 120/240? (I say trumotion as itās not native 120/240)3
Thereās very simple way to figure out if CPU holds you back or is it GPU.
- Turn off Smart Smoothihng
- In MSI Afterburner, observe GPU Utilization. If Utilization % is close to 80%, CPU upgrade wonāt boost FPS at those specific graphical settings
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FpsVR is good to show if Cpu is giving spikes.
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As long as you do not play in 720p on your pimax you are fine 
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Unfortunately it is not that easy! I would say you have to look at the CPU utilization, not the GPU one. If the GPU utilization is low it could be also bad programming (VR optimization of the game).
But if you see the CPU graph of fpsVR is into orange or red then you have a CPU problem. And that might even be game-specific.
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For a 270 chipset officially the 7700k is the fastest cpu.
But there are individuals who modded a 270 or even a 170 board bios to support 8700k and even 9900k. If you are lucky you have the right board for this bios mod.
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Thanks this information is gold for me and other I suppose. I was speculating about changing quite everything except GPU.
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I am not talking about low GPU utilization. I am talking about high GPU utilization. If utilization is high, CPU upgrade wonāt likely to do much for framerate with those particular settings.
Of course, biggest issue is not hardware really. It is that VR performance is rarely a high priority and fun for developers.
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Now thatās good news as it sucked to hear Intel kept the socker but said you needed the 300 chipset for coffeelake.
Do you have a link that might say which boards/brands might be compatible?
Thanks glad you could make some sense of my question,and itās not just a tiny flicker it is like a light on and off for 3 sec bursts at a time,maybe I was not as lucky as I thought.
But weirdly the 90 hertz is fine need to fart around with my Vega as this only seems to be affecting my usage of VorpX if I crack that it may not really matter to much.But I am contemplating switching to Nvidia very soon a RTX 2070 is in my price range. 
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Unfortunately until Amd gets there drivers working properly Nvidia will have better support in the mean time.
Here is one of the vids i found just by searching coffeelake z170 on youtube:
unfortunately there is no list of mobos. You have to search for yourselfā¦
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Awesome thanks! 
