Chances are that if you are reading this you are thinking of building or upgrading to a 'VR Ready' PC this year (if you don't own one already) and if red is your flavor of choice then AMD has revealed the list of Oculus Rift 'VR-Ready' processors that will be able to handle the platform just fine. The original list of processors was published by Forbes' Jason Evangelho and contained Athlon and A-Series parts as well - both of which have now been dropped.

AMD lists five FX processors that support Oculus Rift 'VR'

As most of you will know, the Oculus Rift VR headset is not a self-sufficient device. The most important thing you will require is a very beefy GPU. I am talking the likes of the GTX 970 or the Radeon R9 290 since you are basically going to be running a 2k resolution at 90 fps. The CPU has little to no role in the VR platform. This means that a CPU that can currently handle modern games fairly well should do just fine in VR as well.Still, games like Star Citizen will be very CPU intensive and you cannot make do with just about any AMD processor. Infact, according to the official list - the company has (so far) only tested 5 parts that passed their internal checking:

Oculus Rift VR Ready AMD Processors