Yes, I did a bit of research and I get what you mean about the other requirements, such as the amount of free memory needed, etc. I also planned on getting a Nvidia card because I hear they are the best and that the games were made around them, not sure if that's true, but I know a lot of you with Nvidia have awesome graphics and stuff. Then I looked at the prices..
Yeah, I don't think I'm going to be able to get anything new at those prices, really, just the card alone is too much. And we don't really have any computer whiz friends or anything, we'd only have the sellers to rely on and obviously they could tell us lies to make us try to buy their stuff. (We've had problems like that before) Really, it all comes down to the price of things and it is all an excruciating amount of money that we just won't have - I suppose I'll just have to stick with what I've got. My game is lagging considerably, anyway, so I might have to just go ahead and uninstall Pets and I suppose that's the limit, EP wise, for my laptop. Thank you all for your help, anyway.
Like I said, I'll be getting a job and moving out quite soon after August and will start saving up for my own things, hopefully this being one of them once I get more important things for uni and stuff out of the way.