yeah im planning on upgrading, just took the computer out of the garage and gonna replace its current 9400 gt with 660 ti, then as i get money upgrade the cpu mobo and ram
q9550 can last you another 1-2 years before it starts to be the bottleneck for the card. Honestly if you upgrade to i5-3450, you're gaining like 10-15% performance at most. In games like BF3 where cpu isn't that important the fps difference will be minimal