• Cheap computer that can play DOTA 2
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Hey I'm looking for a bang for the buck computer to run Dota 2 on 1024x768 resolution. Prefferably a laptop,or a tablet that can connect keyboard&mouse? OS doesn't matter, but I'd like to try something else rather than windows&android. Perhaps Linux or Mac? I suppose one of those raspberry pi's wouldnt run dota 2 well enough, right?anyways, let me know what you think about it.
The Razer Edge Pro is apparently pretty good, it would probably outdo your requirements, but cheap? Nah.
Maybe get an Sager NP2252?
I suppose you're Romanian, what's your budget?
[QUOTE=godfatherk;41916047]Hey I'm looking for a bang for the buck computer to run Dota 2 on 1024x768 resolution. Prefferably a laptop,or a tablet that can connect keyboard&mouse? OS doesn't matter, but I'd like to try something else rather than windows&android. Perhaps Linux or Mac? I suppose one of those raspberry pi's wouldnt run dota 2 well enough, right?anyways, let me know what you think about it.[/QUOTE] Is Dota 2 source-based?
[QUOTE=Pebsie;41918594]Is Dota 2 source-based?[/QUOTE] Yes.
Ideally,I would like to buy some hardware(simmilar to raspberry/gooseberry perhaps?) with 100-200$ that can run dota 2 smoothly in 1024x768. I could consider a cheap tablet,but it has to run linux/windows and support keyboard&mouse. Or a cheap laptop with a small screen,1024x768resolution and a good video card. Would also consider used hawrdare too. I have a tower at home that runs dota 2 perfectly(amd x4 2.4ghz,ati 4770,2gb ddr3),built by me afew years ago with 600$. But I'll be moving to different places alot and I won't carry the tower with me, it will just stay home as an office pc. Now,i haven't been reading all the news regarding new developments, but i know raspberry and gooseberry launched afew years ago and werent that good on the performance, but they were compact and cheap and i liked that. I thought that, beying in 2013-2014 something small, with good specs might be out there. L.E.: It appears there is this this kickstarter funded comp. called Parallella that is supposedly 50 times stronger than raspberry pi and it costs 100$ Did any one recieve it?They were supposed to ship them this summer.On the official site they say it runs linux.
DOTA2 just straight up won't work on an RPI. Although it got ported to linux, it got ported to the x86 variant of it, the rpi uses ARM. $200 isn't really gonna get you much unless you get a used laptop. Even then, you are limited.
Alright, but there must be a small board, simmilar to RPI, that could run it, right?How about that Parallella board?Would that work?
I prefer a particular laptop since you already own a PC.
I think the solution is an amd a10 5800k,a mITX motherboard, a miniITX case&psu, 8gb ram+ my old 2gb ram,the old 500gb hdd internal and the 500gb external, and my old ati 4770 hd in crossfire.that can be pretty cheap,right?
[QUOTE=godfatherk;42066376]I think the solution is an amd a10 5800k,a mITX motherboard, a miniITX case&psu, 8gb ram+ my old 2gb ram,the old 500gb hdd internal and the 500gb external, and my old ati 4770 hd in crossfire.that can be pretty cheap,right?[/QUOTE] In Crossfire? No mini-ITX motherboard is going to support Crossfire. Did you mean just one 4770?
i meant dual graphics thing. 4770+ a10's gpu
would that work?
[QUOTE=godfatherk;42074529]i meant dual graphics thing. 4770+ a10's gpu[/QUOTE] That's not really effective, I don't think you can even do that with your motherboard. It's completely useless anyways, you're not going to get any performance improvement, and it actually might slow down the other gpu I think.
The 4770 does not support it. [url]http://www.cpu-world.com/info/AMD/Recommended_graphics_cards_for_AMD_dual-graphics.html[/url]
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