That's gonna be tight.
Do you need every hardware new, anything you can salvage from your old rig?
Also, where do you live?
Resolution you're going to be playing at?
Compaq presario PC
SR5110NX
AMD Athlon™ 64 processor 3800+ 2.4 GHz
windows vista
1 gb memory
NVIDiA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
55GB free hd space
is currently what i got, computers about 7 years old (i think) i don't think i'd want to salvage anything. bump it up to possibly 500 for creations sake. not really worried about having much on it besides d3. Albany/long island for purchasing area. 1280 X 1024 is the resolution i'm currently running at, but basically could change to whatever would let me run it best
I think the $700 Alienware X51 is about the cheapest you could go to get an ejoyable Diablo 3 experience. With very careful part selection you could possibly do it for $500 if you build the system yourself.
Generally speaking, it's very difficult to find a pre-built system in this price range with enough GPU power for 3D games like Diablo 3.
Your 1280x1024 monitor will work with the game, but ideally you'd upgrade to a 16:9 monitor (1920x1080 resolution, for example). If you play at 1280x1024, your view of the game world will have the sides cut off, putting you at a tactical disadvantage; you could use the game's "letterbox" option to crop your view to 1280x720, giving you the full viewing distance, but making everything very small.
HP Pavillion P6-2016 Desktop PC
What's your budget?
Do you need every hardware new, anything you can salvage from your old rig?
Also, where do you live?
Resolution you're going to be playing at?
SR5110NX
AMD Athlon™ 64 processor 3800+ 2.4 GHz
windows vista
1 gb memory
NVIDiA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
55GB free hd space
is currently what i got, computers about 7 years old (i think) i don't think i'd want to salvage anything. bump it up to possibly 500 for creations sake. not really worried about having much on it besides d3. Albany/long island for purchasing area. 1280 X 1024 is the resolution i'm currently running at, but basically could change to whatever would let me run it best
Generally speaking, it's very difficult to find a pre-built system in this price range with enough GPU power for 3D games like Diablo 3.
Your 1280x1024 monitor will work with the game, but ideally you'd upgrade to a 16:9 monitor (1920x1080 resolution, for example). If you play at 1280x1024, your view of the game world will have the sides cut off, putting you at a tactical disadvantage; you could use the game's "letterbox" option to crop your view to 1280x720, giving you the full viewing distance, but making everything very small.
Somebody better have a second look at that build.
http://www.newegg.com/
Sorry.
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Just noticed I chose a 8GB kit of RAM.
If this rig is exclusively used as a gaming PC, you might want to consider buying only 4GB.
Saves you about fifteen bucks right there.