help needed

currently i have a gigabyte ga-m55sli-s4 motherboard amd 64x2 windsor 4200+ cpu 2 gig pc2 5300 dont know brand its cheapim sure nvidia 9600gt 512 vid card thing has been slow since day 1 i used easytune 5 heres info cpu 2209 mhz fsb 200mhz bus 1002 mhz muti is 11 so i am wondering if i upgrade to a 6000+would i see a big diff or not play alot of online games it seems to slow after about 30min of play any help or thoughts please

Norton is a resource hawg - dump it for AVG and Zone Alarm (if you can't operate behind a firewall router) if that's how you roll.

I'd be interested in knowing at what speed your RAMs are operating. Download CPUz (http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php) and check your speed.

With AMD's wacky memory divisors and the 333MHz ratio your pc5300 may be effectively running at 610MHz (305x2)

Odds are your X2 4200+ is a 89w Windsor anyway so the X2 6000+ 89w would be a really nice bump. If my math is working your RAMs would be running at 624MHz (312x2).

You might want to consider (2x1Gb) DDR2800 for around $30. At stock 3Ghz your X2 6000+ would run your RAMs at 750MHz. Dropping the HT to x4 and bumping the clock to 213MHz would give you 3.2GHz overall with your RAMs running stock 800MHz.