[Dan_OB]

I've got a budget Dell computer with an athlon 64 x2 4400+ (2.30 Ghz) , with an nvidia geforce 9400 gt with 512 memory and 4 gigs of system memory. and it handles pirates well. So anything with these specs or better should do you. I would advise maxing memory (4 gigs on a 32 bit machine) it's cheap and does a lot for performance. and focus on a good budget video card (mine was less the $100) with at least 256 memory of it's own and avoid shared memory. Nice thing about pirates is that it doesn't demand a super system with a top of the line video card like some games do.

You should be able to get a $400 desktop that will do just fine if you shop around a bit.