Yeah It's for real. I'll be using it 5 years so I'm buffing up this time. I'm in desperate need of a replacement and I think I might try out Battlefield 3 too.
Well, I'm currently using a Dell Dimension E521 from 2006 with
AMD 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ 1.8 GHz
Nvidia GeForce 7300 LE Video (256MB PCIe)
4GB RAM
When I tried to play SC2, I had the bare minimum in specs and would lag like crazy on the lowest settings. I should notice quite a change soon
The nice thing with that video card I had, if it ever went bad I know I could upgrade it to a 512MB version for $.99
http://cgi.eeeebay.com/XFX-NVIDIA-GeForce-7300GS-512MB-GDDR2-PCI-Express-x16-/180692917536?pt=PCC%5FVideo%5FTV%5FCards&hash=item2a12231d20