Alienware Is Selling Oculus-Certified PCs

The $600 Oculus Rift cannot run virtual reality applications on its own. The VR headset can only function when connected to a powerful PC which OEMs are glad to provide at a premium.

Alienware announced that it will provide a line of Oculus Certified systems. The lineup currently consists of one PC: the Alienware X51 which starts at $1,200 for an Intel Core i5-6400, NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 970 GPU and 8GB of RAM. Alienware also allows buyers to customize the X51’s hardware specs, and the price can easily go up to more than $2,400 according to the selected options.

Before the Rift pre-orders began, Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe promised that "Wenn Sie tatsächlich einen neuen Computer kaufen müssen und die Rift kaufen wollen, sollten Sie sich höchstens im Bereich von $1.500 bewegen." Perhaps you may be able to match that price range if you built your on PC instead of buying an OEM one, but we really doubt a hardcore gamer would settle for an i5 and an upper-middle tier graphics card.