Isn't this the off-topic thread, Zenigma?
Money is a difficult one, as currencies are a bit different. However, I know I don't need anything top of the line, but at the same time, the mid-range I've seen are within the price I'm looking at from what I've seen.
I'm a bit surprised that most here that I've seen so far have 4GB RAM. My 4-5 year old cheap laptop has 2GB RAM, so in that much time when technology and programs are more intensive (I'm pointing mostly at Windows,) the 'standard' that I've seen is only slightly better than what my cheap laptop had when I got it. That's what gets me - little things like that where technology has barely improved over what I expected it would. Also, the differences is graphics cards...
That said, 4GB RAM is fine for most things, but I wouldn't mind having the slight security that if I find something modern, it'll run, and a lot of things just want 4GB for optimal settings. Is there anything that wants minimum 4GB?
I'm not really a gamer since the newest thing I enjoyed is still probably 4 or 5 years old at least, but what I run, I'd like to run at near full settings.
So, what can I run? I can run Unreal at decent settings - I had a flashback to that, and while looking great and running reasonably, it still slowed down slightly when jumping - nothing bad, but noticable. I blame the built in graphics card, so that's definitely on the list. If I want to check out the expansion, I want it to run smoother and not have the slowdowns, but hey, that's over 10 years old, and any basic system nowadays with a decent graphics card'll run that fine!
I've looked at the SC2 system requirements, and they look pretty basic to me, even at optimal settings. Apart from that, D2 mods without the slowdown I get (major ones lke Hell Unleashed and Median in the more intense areas,) D3, and nothing else on the cards. D3 is really a half-half for me, because of the "always online" DRM crap. It doesn't work here, as we have a terrible connection and our governments plans for the National Broadband Network is expensive, will take another 5 years or so to actually complete, and is pretty much outdated today, let alone in 5 years... At least the original plan prior to the election was - I'm hoping it has changed since then. Yeah, we have slow, expensive and fairly unstable internet connections here, so anything that requires constant online activity is a definite drawback for me.
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