General DiscussionOff topic [saving up new computer need help]

Yes. You might wanna get a 2tb or 1.5tb harddrive tho, as if you are using this for a while 1tb will not be enough. The price difference is just 30 bucks or so. Also 525W for the power leaves very little room should you wish to upgrade it in the future. I suggest going for at least a 700W power supply, which also does not cost too much extra.

the durability/specifications of power supply source aren't based on the W numbers, but the certificate (gold, bronze) and the efficiency in percentage. it's like saying you're better than me for having a higher winrate.

I have an i5 3570k overclocked at 4.2GHz with a 660TI video card for instance, with just 500W power supply source and it couldn't work better.

My suggestion (and I tell this to anyone wanting computer advice) is to go to hardforum.com and post in the general hardware forum. There is a sticky at the top that will ask you some basic questions that you can copy/paste and answer. There are a lot of people that will help you out and put together complete builds for you. I had one done several years ago (2010) and my computer is still running fantastically.

I would trade intel mother board and cpu for amd and put tHe extra money towards a ssd to boot. Also spend the extra towards a hx650 the psu is core :]

Those specs will eat dota2 for lunch. Dota2 is not demanding. If all you want to do is run dota2 you can save money and go with an i3, cheaper gpu, 4 gb ram for starters.

Tomshardware.com is also very good hardware site.

My 2005 pc runs it just fine lol. I run dota 2 on 800/600 resolution with all graphics turned off and low render settings. Unfortunately, if 9 players select their heroes all at the same time..... my screen freezes for a good 30+ seconds.

lol don't buy pc to buy fucking dota

buy it to play games that will be released for another 2 years or u will regret it later on unless u wanna buy pc once a year or so

Well a lot of dota players only play dota, just like a lot of wow players only play wow etc. It's a werid game that way but I agree, I'd build the best you can for 800-1000, don't spend more than $250 on a gpu, and try to make that pc last 5-6 years. I'm running an i5-760, 4gb ddr3, gtx 460 palit superclocked edition I built in 2010 and I can run all new games. I haven't tried anything ridiculously new like battlefield 4 on highest of all high settings, but I can do crysis on high settings, skyrim, battlefield 3. All run great on 1920x1080. I'll probably have this pc another 3 years.

Dota requires like nothing to run lol

@vexire I would but I'm really lacking of money now, im trying to make some but in asian countries theres nothing to mow and stuff

@bob hardforum.com doens't work? thanks tho

@charmander Im really not a fan of AMD, don't know anything about it thats why im scared to venture into it

@mark wanan run dota 2 at max settings and also make it be able to handle some other games not at max but medium settings and such

If i were you id go for ATI + AMD, youll get more perfomance for your money. The PC itself is ok, but i dont think the perfomance/cash ratio is good at all.

From time to time you might want to play a "8 hours campaign" game.