dude get an asus. go to best buy. any asus will be able to handle starcraft on high settings. Get one with 1 gb video memory and intel duo core works fine with me. get at least a 500 gb hard drive and 6-8 gbs of ram. you will be able to find one in your price range there.I bought an asus with a terrabyte hard drive and 8 gbs of ram and a 2gb video memory for just 1K.