CPU Upgrade Dilema

[Wiggins]

I need some help guys.

I currently have a Pentium D 930 that has been running very stable for months
@ 3.6Ghz 240FSB, 4mb Cache

This chip is the presler 65nm and sits idle @ 41c and 56c under stress sat under an Akasa AK-961 cooler.

I have benchmarked the cpu on pcmark 05 and got scores of 6000 which is not far off the E6400 at stock.

The dilema I am in, is that would it be really worth it buying an E6400?

Am I better to upgrade the RAM or even the Graphics Card?

I have a £200 birthday budget.

I use my pc for some video encoding, gaming and general internet usage. I also like to dabble with some overclocking too.

Other specs are:

P5N-E SLI
2Gb Samsung 533@640
Nvidia 7900GS

Any comments will be appreciated

 

[Cupra]

q6600 would do it sell your cpu and add another 2gb 533 ballistix should have you all nice and sorted m8

 

[ih8modem]

I need some help guys.

I currently have a Pentium D 930 that has been running very stable for months
@ 3.6Ghz 240FSB, 4mb Cache

This chip is the presler 65nm and sits idle @ 41c and 56c under stress sat under an Akasa AK-961 cooler.

I have benchmarked the cpu on pcmark 05 and got scores of 6000 which is not far off the E6400 at stock.

The dilema I am in, is that would it be really worth it buying an E6400?

Am I better to upgrade the RAM or even the Graphics Card?

I have a £200 birthday budget.

I use my pc for some video encoding, gaming and general internet usage. I also like to dabble with some overclocking too.

Other specs are:

P5N-E SLI
2Gb Samsung 533@640
Nvidia 7900GS

Any comments will be appreciated

£200-00 will get you a E6750 and a P35 motherboard, plus you could then sell your current setup as a unit (known tested working ...)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-129-AB&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=913
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-157-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=

In an ideal world of course you could get some 667DDR2 to go with that.