[quote name='MasterAwesome']Another Diablo 3 related question...
To anyone with decent knowledge of video cards: what would be the cheapest video card I could get in order to comfortably run Diablo 3 on medium settings? Diablo 3 is really the only computer game I see myself playing until maybe Diablo 4 comes out, so I don't need a high-end one in anticipation of playing anything else in the future. I'm sure Diablo 3 is pretty demanding of a game, so I might have to end up getting a pretty nice video card anyways. I'm still using the default video card in both my laptop and my desktop, which in both cases is the Intel (R) HD Graphics Family. I ran the "can you run it" program in regards to Diablo 3 and everything looked good on both my laptop and desktop except for the video card.
Also...I got a pretty nice laptop last Black Friday that would probably be a decent gaming laptop (17 inches, i7 processor, 4 GB RAM)...but it's an HP which are known to overheat fairly easily. You guys think playing Diablo 3 on my laptop would overheat it? I don't wanna risk frying the circuit-board by overworking my laptop.[/QUOTE]
All companies have models that overheat, not just HP. They take most of the punishment on the internet though. I'd say use the laptop. You'll be able to run it on medium/low depending on the settings.
Post the specs of the desktop and we'll see how that is. No point in buying a high-end video card if you have an older build. It will bottleneck.