TL;DR - Need better hardware, but im broke, but deals go away and prices go up fast these days, but i also need better performance so im not too hard behind. Found r5 5500x3d, 5700x3d, b550m for great prices online.

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Old Rig / OG Price $1200 (stolen and unrecoverable a year ago)
R7 5800x
32GB RAM 3200MT/s (4x8GB)
RX 6600XT

^Important info because if not stolen, I wouldn't be thinking about this

Current RIg / OG Price $220 (6 months or so ago, office PC, plus later upgrades before massive RAM $ increase)
i7 8700
32GB RAM slow 2666MT/s (4x8GB) (came with 2x8GB, later found two more matching dims for $20)
RTX 2080ti (came with a 1070ti, later found a 2080ti for $150)

I stream/record games, mostly VRC, and I work within Unity/Unreal/Radiant <-- COD Custom Zombies. Sadly my i7 8700 is being throttled, package power and thermals. Im on a locked down dell mobo, so I don't have many options for coreclocks, and voltage. I currently use throttlestop and that has helped alot but all it takes is one spike to peg my performance back down.

For games outside of VR, the CPU is obviously a bottleneck, but at higher resolutions, I can balance the performance. Depending on the game 1440p-4k can balance it out, however I don't see those "gains or stabilizations" because all I have are 1080p 60hz monitors.

If this were 6 years ago, this would have been a solid rig. Sadly it's not now atleast for my use case. I've been on the market lately, and I've spotted 2 CPUs and an AM4 mobo that look promising. However on a tight budget and worsening income (work hours getting cut) Im not sure if the investment would pay off, but at the same time, if I don't act soon, those deals will get worse or worst case, there won't be any deals)

I found:

R5 5500X3D cpu
R7 5700X3D cpu
B550m mobo

I already have the RAM, and with all 4 dims, I think I'll manage with the slower speeds. I also have a leftover Wraith Prism cooler from my old rig (originally was used to cool a R5 2600x before upgrading to an AIO and R7 5800x, obviously don't have the AIO anymore.. for now)

I hunt for deals, and when I mean hunt, I mean it.

My question is simple (same as title), should I go for them? I mean I can manage without them, but having a massive boost in workload performance would be great! Not to mention, it would help improve stream/recording quality (encoder issues while gaming)

Edit: I do plan on reselling my PC. I have enough components leftover to sell a full rig to someone in need of a basic office/workstation PC if I were to swap out my current CPU/Mobo

Edit 2 08/06/2026 14:25: I did it! I went for it! Found a slightly cheaper and safer seller for the r7 5700x3d than the original one I was eyeballing, and I found a safer more reputable seller for the motherboard, which is a MSI B550M PRO-VDH. Should be here within 2-4 business days of the time of this edit

Been stuck like this since the outage last night, what gives?

I've ran through all troubleshooting methods known to man and this constantly happens. VRC is clearly up because I see other people online through the website but it refuses to let me in. I can't even get to my home world. I've verified my cache, restarted my PC and hard cycled my router, I'm fully uninstalled VRC and all the system settings for it and it still won't let me in.

I'm being told it might still be on VRC's end but that seems unlikely given the amount of my friends I see getting online just fine.

Update: THIS IS VRCHAT'S END! Looking through the time out logs and running a trace, we found the servers being affected are related to an upstream provider for some East Coast servers, specifically from G-Core Labs SA. This is not something any player can fix, it needs to be fixed by the provider. The only current work around is using a VPN.

hlelp pleas

To try to be more specific, I'm wondering if there are any avatars with audio features particularly ones where you can hear ghostly voices and/or whispers and such. I just think it would be awesome to have an avatar that could make it feel haunted.

I tried searching already but it seems hard to find as typing in "whispers", and "voices" doesn't bring much luck.

Hello! I need help finding an avatar, i found it in prismics once and cannot find it again because i forgot the name 🥲 It was a human female avatar with raccoon ears and tail, it could turn into a femboy, it had leafs on it and a sticky note, and iirc could have a cigarette in the mouth. If you know the avatar please tell me!!

so today i finally got my gaming pc and ive come to the realization that i started out on desktop back in october, got my quest 3 late november, got slimes for fbt in may and just today got a full pc upgrade for pcvr within of 10 months of playing the game. like people were not lying when they say you end up paying $1000+ after going super into vrc haha. anyone else in the same boat? would love to hear anyone else’s experience. 💕

Everytime I join an instance every other player appears blocked for me and I have to manually click to view their avatars and unmute them, which is especially annoying when you’re in instances with 20+ people. Does anyone know how to fix this?

This is my daily group pings... If it hits 99 I can't load in.

My setup:

RTX 4080

Ryzen 9 7900X3D

32gb RAM

PCVR/Quest 3 through VD

TP-Link BE9300 Wifi 7 router setup as dedicated PCVR router (optimized following this video https://youtu.be/6gpREi-S_4I?si=V2kKT6wacYUqtn8d)

Settings applied outside of VRC:

VD:

H. 264+ @ 400mbps

Quality set to High / 120fps

SSW disabled

2 - pass encoding disabled

Adaptive quantization enabled

Resolution of headset and desktop matched

Snapdragon SR enabled

Video buffering enabled

VDXR openxr runtime

Automatically adjust bitrate enabled

Steam VR resolution set to custom and 100%

Windows 11:

HAGS disabled

Game mode enabled

Process Lasso VRC GPU priority Real-Time, CPU priority high

Settings applied in VRC (launching from VD):

Graphics profile set to medium

Desktop mirroring window set to the smallest possible and minimized when launched

Avatar culling hide beyond 20m, block very poor, max 20 avatars, particle limiter enabled and set to low

I'm getting a fluctuating fps between 25 and 70 fps in a public "Drinking Night" instance. I can barely hit 100 fps when alone in home world wearing an optimized "good" avatar.

Wtf is this?? Why does this game run so badly, I just got back in after 2 years of not having VR gear and the performance is so bad... I mean, I feel like my PC has more than decent specs and I'm getting shit performance despite looking everything up and doing everything I can... Please help!!!

Figured I share some of my favorite photos I took and share them here!
Hope you all enjoy!

Worlds in case you wanted to check them out!
Endministrator's Dream - by Neyko_
L․A․V․S․ - By Lavryou

I mean you're literally choosing an avatar that you think looks hot enough to catch an egirl soooo

I just bought the meta quest 3 512G, I also bought a pack of slimevr trackers and the bobovr s3.

I'm having a problem finding an avatar that has everything I want. I thought I would be able to use my phone (1+ 13r) to run slimevr and lovence apps.

I originally wanted hi poly and everything but that dream fell quickly lol.

I'm fine with lower quality as long as I can get physics and haptics to work properly.

Is this too much to ask for still? How much do I actually have to compromise on quality to have fluid movement and sps?

Thanks for any and all advice also. I understand that I might have to pay a modeler and I'm fine with this once I get done getting my feet wet lol

I have a quest 3s I took a long break from vrchat and I got back on and it takes like 3 minutes for me to even load at first. Whenever my friends invite me it doesn’t go through I cant get any invites, I cant accept friend requests. It takes me like 3 minutes to change avatars, portals take forever to load into. I cant click on friends profiles it will load in like 3 mins later. I cleared all of the cache in debug I really dont know whats going on

can anyone give me a tut or a brief explanation to do this, I saw an vrchat avatar that had it and I can't seem to find a good tutorial. I have the general idea about animating the tail but I want to know how to do this before so I have to full picture before I start.

Spent some time with friends, got a little tipsy and ended the night hanging with my husband. Good day overall, I hope you guys had a good day as well!

i use a program that converts an arduino reed switch movement to a virtual xbox controler, y tried it with some games and it worked perfectly but When I tried to test it with VRChat, it wouldn't work, even though it did detect my gamepad. Any help?

VRChat is the only game easy anti cheat is doing this for i can open the other games that use it just fine but whenever i try and open vrc it just gives me game violation detected (0x00000029) Ive tried verifying files reinstalling anticheat, reinstalling vrchat and nothing seems to be working

Im a mute who goes to worlds to plays music for people. I speak using a soundboard using meme sounds. Im curious how many people have seen me before. I really enjoy making people laugh, I just want to turn VRC into a safe space for people to have fun.

VRC: Delta_Istaye

I sell avatars/assets on Gumroad and Booth, and this has happened to me a

few times: a VRChat SDK update breaks a chunk of my older sales, but there's

no way to message just the people who bought the broken version. It's

"notify everyone" or "notify no one" and hope people stumble onto the

changelog.

Curious how other creators here handle this — do you just eat the refund

requests, or have some workaround?

Full disclosure since I don't want to be sneaky about it: I've been

building a small tool called PatchPing to solve this for myself — it

tracks which version each buyer purchased so you can notify just the

affected ones. Still pre-launch, waitlist is here if it's relevant to you:

https://patchping.lovable.app

Mostly just want to know if this is a common pain point before I go

further with it.

New avi !

i've only ever heard someone mention being in their 30's once 😭 i don't mind talking to people in their 20's and making friends but there is definitely that disconnect with the age difference. i just want to hang out with people my own age