Thanks Dave!! I don't think I've got issues with the PSU - It's 950W, and even though it's old, the power output shouldn't have dropped off to the point where it would be an issue. 

I fear I may have steered this thread awry with talk of freezes and reboots. They are only occasional: I just cvited them because I assumed they were indicators that the CPU was under pressure. My primary interest is in whether the FX 8350 will allow me to increase the in-game visual quality settings when I'm in VR. 

I might look at the CPU cooling anyway. I'm just using a stock fan atm.

Is your GPU (GTX 1070, memory???) supposed to be able to handle highest settings in the particular VR game?

It's not the highest specified Geforce card - that would be the Titan or the 2080 - but it's pretty high up the tree. I'd expect to be towards the top end of quality settings.

It's an impressive card. I've heard tell of some games that can challenge top-end rigs on high/est settings. I usually dial quality back to lowest acceptable especially with regard to things like supersampling and shadows, and see how it goes. Visual quality is important, but playability is paramount. I'm absolutely stunned by the FC4 visuals (not counting the characters, which are a tad cartoonish up close).

I grew up in Himalayan North Pakistan, so part of the pleasure of FC4 has been a dash of familiarity.  I was a child, so the opportunities for for wholesale slaughter were limited.  Do you love Pagan Min yet?

Wow. Nah just had a couple of taunting phone calls, still rooting out his minions in the puckerbrush. 'Liberated' the first outpost (actually a stray elephant did the heavy lifting) and wandering towards a new bell tower. What's interesting about the scenery is that it strikes me as a mashup of realism and Indian miniature/Mughal manuscript painting (which I'm very into).

Yeah, the 1070 is a decent card. I have the slightly later Ti version in my current PC and it can handle most modern things with high detail without issue. 4k gaming could be a struggle, but it should handle pretty high detail fine without any issues.

its best to use mac os for video edit as its more stable then windows is now