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Help - what is the cheapest pc to play DotA2

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by I Have Layers » March 11, 2015 2:23am | Report
Gigabyte - ew

Cheap *** Corsair bronze non-modular PSU guaranteed to short out and destroy your PC within 6 months - just gross
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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by KoDyAbAbA » March 11, 2015 2:25am | Report
^ money constraints bro.

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by I Have Layers » March 11, 2015 2:28am | Report
Ebay.

Intel Pentium.

APU.

Etc, etc.
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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by ThePipersSon » March 11, 2015 5:33am | Report
I Have Layers wrote:

Gigabyte - ew

Cheap *** Corsair bronze non-modular PSU guaranteed to short out and destroy your PC within 6 months - just gross

For the price their is nothing wrong with with that set up
BTW what have u got wrong with gigabyte theirs legit nothing wrong with then good brand
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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by FleetAU » March 11, 2015 7:16am | Report
As someone with considerable knowledge in this area....stop offering advice without knowing anything.

Corsair is hands down one of the best PC parts manufacturers, and there power supplies are very high quality. as for the bronze rating thats fine...? the bronze-silver-gold etc. rating is the power loss from the capacitors, so no it's not going to short out in 6 months...you spud....

As for actual advice I recommend the classic console killer build as it is known, the build is around $400 to $500 depending on your country and build selection, it as in the name is more powerful then todays next gen consoles, this means you should easily be able to power dota 2 even with the new source 2 graphics engine being released. I don't think you will be able to max out all dota settings and get 144 fps but it should run quite smoothly.

Edit: Reddit has a perfect list of all the different console killer builds here, http://www.reddit.com/r/PCMasterRace/wiki/builds
On a side note my build is as follows:

i5 4690K
Kingston HyperX RAM 8GB CAS: 9 2133hz
EVGA GTX 780 Classified 4gb
ASROCK Extreme 4
128gb samsung evo SSD
2*2tb seagate HDD in Raid 0
2*27' AOC IPS monitors that I can't remember the model of
Noctua NH-D14
NZXT Phantom 410
Corsair RM 750W 80+ Gold fully modular
Cyborg R.A.T 9
Corsair K95 cherry mx red
Steel-series Siberia Elite 7.1 Dolby Surround

thats off the top of my head anyway

edit 2: I just read all of your comment, and you think this "cheap non modular power supply" is bad, what....mysterious plants are you smoking that you think being non modular is bad for a low budget build, that just means you might have some extra cables in your case.....I am going to stop before I say terrible terrible things here
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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Sando » March 11, 2015 8:42am | Report
Yeah Corsair power supplies are generally solid, I'd have no problem recommending one. It's the ultra cheap <£10 ones you have to worry about...

BTW, non-modular power supplies are strangely MORE efficient than modular ones in most cases, but yeah you have to deal with the extra cables.
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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Smuggels » March 11, 2015 10:30am | Report
SUCK ON MY DUAL TITANS *****ES!!!!

I WILL DESTROY YOU ALL.... WITH FLUFFY BUNNIES

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by KEEP CALM AND FEED » March 11, 2015 10:58am | Report
FleetAU wrote:

As someone with considerable knowledge in this area....stop offering advice without knowing anything.

Corsair is hands down one of the best PC parts manufacturers, and there power supplies are very high quality. as for the bronze rating thats fine...? the bronze-silver-gold etc. rating is the power loss from the capacitors, so no it's not going to short out in 6 months...you spud....

As for actual advice I recommend the classic console killer build as it is known, the build is around $400 to $500 depending on your country and build selection, it as in the name is more powerful then todays next gen consoles, this means you should easily be able to power dota 2 even with the new source 2 graphics engine being released. I don't think you will be able to max out all dota settings and get 144 fps but it should run quite smoothly.

Edit: Reddit has a perfect list of all the different console killer builds here, http://www.reddit.com/r/PCMasterRace/wiki/builds
On a side note my build is as follows:

i5 4690K
Kingston HyperX RAM 8GB CAS: 9 2133hz
EVGA GTX 780 Classified 4gb
ASROCK Extreme 4
128gb samsung evo SSD
2*2tb seagate HDD in Raid 0
2*27' AOC IPS monitors that I can't remember the model of
Noctua NH-D14
NZXT Phantom 410
Corsair RM 750W 80+ Gold fully modular
Cyborg R.A.T 9
Corsair K95 cherry mx red
Steel-series Siberia Elite 7.1 Dolby Surround

thats off the top of my head anyway

edit 2: I just read all of your comment, and you think this "cheap non modular power supply" is bad, what....mysterious plants are you smoking that you think being non modular is bad for a low budget build, that just means you might have some extra cables in your case.....I am going to stop before I say terrible terrible things here

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Xyrus » March 11, 2015 1:46pm | Report
FleetAU wrote:

i5 4690K
Kingston HyperX RAM 8GB CAS: 9 2133hz
EVGA GTX 780 Classified 4gb
ASROCK Extreme 4
128gb samsung evo SSD
2*2tb seagate HDD in Raid 0
2*27' AOC IPS monitors that I can't remember the model of
Noctua NH-D14
NZXT Phantom 410
Corsair RM 750W 80+ Gold fully modular
Cyborg R.A.T 9
Corsair K95 cherry mx red
Steel-series Siberia Elite 7.1 Dolby Surround

thats off the top of my head anyway

Does having an SSD and a HDD allow you to do some sort of performance boosting magic?

I know SSDs cause things to be loaded faster than HDDs at teh expense of capacity, so do you have games installed on there and non-program related files on your HDD?

P.S. +rep...now you're at 13 >8{D
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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Wulfstan » March 11, 2015 2:43pm | Report
Quoted:
I know SSDs cause things to be loaded faster than HDDs at teh expense of capacity, so do you have games installed on there and non-program related files on your HDD?


If SSD is set to master, and HDD to slave, yes. Correct me if I am wrong though.

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Please share. I'd be happy to have a Titan inside my toaster that still has a Pentium D CPU.
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