Is it time I upgraded cpu?

[Secret_Window]

I'm struggling atm in video editing, with rendering process taking as long as an hour to 2hrs in most cases. Also I'm noticing in benchmarks some of the older athlon x2's are not far behind my core 2 duo.

So do you think it's time I upgraded to something with a bit more kick in it?

Please bare in my mind, I'm not really interested in overclocking.

Budget £200

Current cpu: Core 2 duo E6400 @ 2.13Ghz

cheers

 

[Secret_Window]

My cpu gets really hot when I overclock it even though it has a Artic cooling Freezer 7 fan on it. My case isn't really upto it (not very good air flow). So I haven't bothered to go back to the point where my computer was literally beeping because it was getting cooked - this was only a a 100mhz overclock btw.

So I want to be on the safe side rather than the sorry side

Btw I have 2GB of ram and use adobe premiere pro for editing.